Strategic Project Manager (Hybrid, Banking AI)

Pontoon

Gloucester

Hybrid

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Pontoon is seeking a Project Manager (Contract) to oversee phased delivery of banking initiatives. Based in Bristol Harbourside with hybrid on-site work, you will drive milestones, engage stakeholders, and align activities with programme objectives.

You will maintain the project plan in Jira/Excel, coordinate across business and technology teams, and contribute to risk management, reporting, and process redesign using BI dashboards and AI-enabled tools.

Qualifications

Proven project management experience in banking or similar industry.
Proficiency with Jira and ServiceNow.
Knowledge of AI technologies and their banking applications.
Excellent stakeholder communication across all levels.
Experience in process redesign and reporting.

Responsibilities

Maintain project plan with dependencies, milestones, and deliverables using Jira and Excel.
Facilitate weekly progress meetings and escalate risks, issues, and decisions.
Identify risks, issues, blockers; support RAID logs and mitigation.
Produce high-quality status reports for governance forums.
Support process redesign with current-state and future-state maps.
Coordinate engagement across business and technology teams for seamless collaboration.
Develop process tooling such as MI tools, Power BI dashboards, and Co-pilot tools.