Data & AI Delivery Lead — Hybrid London

The Travel Corporation; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Travel Corporation is seeking a Data Delivery Lead to drive the execution of our Data and AI priorities, connecting Data Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Product to deliver measurable outcomes. You will balance priorities, dependencies and risks while keeping teams focused on value creation.

Hybrid work with 3 days in the office, in London, Monday to Friday. You will partner with senior stakeholders to ensure delivery excellence and continuous improvement across planning and

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering complex Data, Analytics and AI initiatives.
• Strong understanding of modern Data and AI delivery environments.
• Proven ability to manage complex dependencies across multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Strong knowledge of agile, product and modern delivery practices.
• Excellent programme planning, prioritisation and risk management.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and creating structure without unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management.
• A commercial mindset and a clear bias towards measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic Data and AI programmes and initiatives.
• Turn strategic roadmaps into clear plans, priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Coordinate dependencies across Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, Product, Architecture and Technology.
• Bring transparency to scope, milestones, risks, issues and decisions.
• Remove blockers and create the conditions for multidisciplinary teams to do their best work.
• Establish agile and product-oriented practices that genuinely suit Data and AI delivery.
• Partner with Data Product Leads to balance roadmap priorities, capacity and business value.
• Give senior stakeholders a clear view of progress, risk and the decisions needed from them.
• Drive continuous improvement across planning, prioritisation and delivery effectiveness.
• Keep teams focused on outcomes rather than activity.

Skills

Data delivery leadership

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Program planning

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data engineering / AI familiarity

Ambiguity management

Executive communication

Commercial mindset

Tools

Snowflake

Job description

The Travel Corporation is seeking a Data Delivery Lead to drive the execution of our Data and AI priorities, connecting Data Engineering, Data Science, Analytics, and Product to deliver measurable outcomes. You will balance priorities, dependencies and risks while keeping teams focused on value creation.

Hybrid work with 3 days in the office, in London, Monday to Friday. You will partner with senior stakeholders to ensure delivery excellence and continuous improvement across planning and