AI Delivery Lead: Automations & Agents for Major Projects

Mott MacDonald; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Hybrid working policy

Employee ownership benefits

Annual bonus schemes

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking an AI Implementation Delivery Lead to join our Digital Value Implementation team within Central Digital. You will steer complex AI-enabled delivery, automate solutions, and drive adoption across Major Projects, balancing governance with hands-on prototyping and practical engineering leadership.

You will manage multidisciplinary teams, shape scalable pilots, and ensure value realisation while maintaining responsible AI and data protection principles across projects.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading digital or innovation projects.
• Experience delivering AI-enabled automation solutions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Shape opportunities with business users and domain experts to define the problem and value.
• Lead from concept to scale across discovery, design, build, test, deployment, and adoption.
• Plan delivery with milestones, budgets, resources, risks, and change control.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams across delivery, data science, software, engineering, and operations.
• Assure adoption, testing, training, and handover for sustainable project outcomes.

Skills

AI delivery leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Delivery management

Prototyping & testing

Stakeholder management

Tools

Copilot AI agents

Copilot Studio

Azure AI

Power Platform

Job description

Mott MacDonald is seeking an AI Implementation Delivery Lead to join our Digital Value Implementation team within Central Digital. You will steer complex AI-enabled delivery, automate solutions, and drive adoption across Major Projects, balancing governance with hands-on prototyping and practical engineering leadership.

You will manage multidisciplinary teams, shape scalable pilots, and ensure value realisation while maintaining responsible AI and data protection principles across projects.