Business Transformation Programme Manager - Data & AI

The Panel; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Panel in Dublin is seeking a seasoned Business Programme Manager to spearhead a major data and AI transformation. The role offers high visibility with senior leadership and ownership of the programme, shaping how the business operates with a hybrid Dublin work model.

You will design the roadmap, secure funding, manage risks and budgets, and drive adoption of AI-enabled reporting tools such as Copilot, coordinating across Finance, Legal and Operations to deliver measurable value.

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading business transformation programmes.
• Experience of programmes execution involving data, AI, digital or technology change with a good background in the technologies in these areas.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, comfortable with senior leadership and leading people through change.
• Strong programme governance and delivery discipline, with experience managing vendors and delivery partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead the transformation programme end to end: assess the current state, build the roadmap and business case, and deliver measurable business value.
• Redesign processes and ways of working across Finance, Treasury, Legal and Operations, and embed new processes, automation and data governance.
• Lead the change: engage senior stakeholders, bring people on the journey and drive adoption of new reporting and AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot.
• Run programme governance: plans, risks, budgets, steering committees and the delivery partners building the data warehouse, reporting and AI capability.

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Data & AI transformation

Change management

Governance

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

Job description

Business Programme Manager, Data & AI Transformation

Dublin - Hybrid

Context

Our client, an established and growing international business in Dublin, is launching a major data and AI transformation and needs a senior programme manager to lead it. This is a business transformation programme with real ownership, high visibility with senior leadership and the chance to shape how the business works for years to come.

Responsibilities

• 1. Lead the transformation programme end to end: assess the current state, build the roadmap and business case, and deliver measurable business value.


• 2. Redesign processes and ways of working across Finance, Treasury, Legal and Operations, and embed new processes, automation and data governance.


• 3. Lead the change: engage senior stakeholders, bring people on the journey and drive adoption of new reporting and AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot.


• 4. Run programme governance: plans, risks, budgets, steering committees and the delivery partners building the data warehouse, reporting and AI capability.

Experience

• 1. 8+ years leading business transformation programmes, with a strong record of delivery.


• 2. Experience of programmes execution involving data, AI, digital or technology change with a good background in the technologies in these areas.


• 3. Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, comfortable with senior leadership and leading people through change.


• 4. Strong programme governance and delivery discipline, with experience managing vendors and delivery partners.