Technology Project Manager (AI)

Argus Media; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Group pension scheme

Group healthcare and life assurance

Hybrid working (1 day in office)

25 days annual holiday (↑ to 30)

Gym membership

Season ticket travel loan

Cycle to work scheme

Flexible benefits platform

Training and development

Job summary

Argus Media is accelerating its AI and automation strategy. The Technology Project Manager will plan, lead, and deliver strategic AI and technology initiatives that improve efficiency and drive business value.

You will partner with the GenAI team, technology leadership, and business stakeholders to shape delivery plans, manage risks, and ensure successful adoption across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering technology, digital, software, or transformation projects from initiation to completion.
• Strong project management skills, including planning, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and delivery governance.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and drive projects to successful outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business-focused communication.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of AI and technology projects from initiation through to implementation and adoption.
• Manage the AI Champions Programme, ensuring governance, stakeholder engagement, communications, and delivery of objectives.
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, resources, dependencies, and milestones.
• Define project scope, objectives, outcomes, and success measures with Technology and business leaders.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration across technical and business teams throughout delivery.
• Identify, assess, and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
• Facilitate governance forums, steering groups, and stakeholder meetings with clear progress updates.
• Monitor delivery against scope and business outcomes; ensure timely delivery.
• Champion adoption of AI and automation to deliver measurable efficiency gains.
• Support change activities including communications, training, and adoption planning.
• Maintain project documentation and governance artifacts for visibility.
• Continuously improve PM practices and governance across Technology.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Hybrid/Agile delivery

AI tools familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Technology/Business

PM certification (PRINCE2/PMP/AgilePM)

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

The Technology Project Manager plays a key role in accelerating Argus's adoption of AI and automation across the business. Working closely with the GenAI team, Technology leadership, and business stakeholders, you will lead the planning and delivery of strategic AI and technology initiatives that drive operational efficiency, innovation, and business value. This is a highly collaborative role requiring strong project leadership, stakeholder management, and delivery expertise. You will be responsible for managing multiple projects and programmes, ensuring priorities are aligned, risks are effectively managed, and initiatives are delivered successfully against agreed objectives. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape Argus's AI transformation and influence how emerging technologies are embedded across the organisation.

What Will You Be Doing

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of AI and technology projects from initiation through to implementation and adoption.
• Manage the AI Champions Programme, ensuring effective governance, stakeholder engagement, communications, and delivery of programme objectives.
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, resource requirements, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
• Partner with Technology teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders to define project scope, objectives, outcomes, and success measures.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration, ensuring alignment between technical and business teams throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify, assess, and proactively manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
• Facilitate project governance forums, steering groups, and stakeholder meetings, providing clear updates on progress, risks, decisions, and trade-offs.
• Monitor project performance and ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and against agreed business outcomes.
• Champion the adoption of AI solutions and automation opportunities, ensuring projects deliver measurable efficiency and productivity improvements.
• Support business change activities including communications, training, stakeholder engagement, and adoption planning.
• Maintain project documentation, reporting, and tracking tools, ensuring accurate visibility of delivery status and priorities.
• Continuously improve project management practices, governance, and delivery processes across the Technology function.

Essential

Skills and Experience

• Experience delivering technology, digital, software, or transformation projects from initiation through to completion.
• Strong project management skills, including planning, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and delivery governance.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and drive projects to successful outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business-focused communication.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable using AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Gemini, Claude) to improve productivity, analysis, and project delivery.
• Experience managing organisational change, stakeholder adoption, and business readiness activities.
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools, with strong organisational and reporting skills.
• Project management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP, AgilePM) or equivalent experience.
• Degree or equivalent experience in Technology, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline.

Desirable

• Experience delivering AI, automation, digital transformation, or business process improvement initiatives.
• Experience working with software development or technology delivery teams.
• Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar project management tools.
• Experience in automation, process optimisation, or AI‑driven change initiatives

What’s In It For You

Our rapidly growing, award-winning business offers a dynamic environment for talented, entrepreneurial professionals to achieve results and grow their careers. Argus recognizes and rewards successful performance and as an Investor in People, we promote professional development and retain a high-performing team committed to building our success.

• Competitive salary and company bonus scheme
• Group pension scheme
• Group healthcare and life assurance scheme
• Hybrid working environment (currently one day in office)
• 25 days annual holiday with incremental increase up to 30 days
• Subsidised gym membership
• Season ticket travel loan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Flexible benefits platform (ability to buy additional medical cover, life assurance, dental cover, holiday, critical illness, travel insurance & health screening)
• Extensive internal and external training

Argus is the leading independent provider of market intelligence to the global energy and commodity markets. We offer essential price assessments, news, analytics, consulting services, data science tools and industry conferences to illuminate complex and opaque commodity markets. Headquartered in London with 1,500 staff, Argus is an independent media organisation with 32 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading hubs. Companies, trading firms and governments in 160 countries around the world trust Argus data to make decisions, analyse situations, manage risk, facilitate trading and for long‑term planning. Argus prices are used as trusted benchmarks around the world for pricing transportation, commodities and energy. Founded in 1970, Argus remains a privately held UK-registered company owned by employee shareholders and global growth equity firm General Atlantic.