Senior Data & AI Program Lead

GXO Logistics, Inc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

GXO Logistics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex IT and Data Platform initiatives, including data lakes and cloud technologies.

You will manage the full project lifecycle, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment, governance, and operational excellence. Ideal candidates will have a track record delivering IT projects with a product focus, strong communication skills, and the ability to simplify complex concepts for executives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in project management, Business Administration, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience delivering complex IT projects with a strong emphasis on Data Platforms such as Snowflake, GCP or AWS.
• Demonstrated experience leading projects with a strong product management focus.
• Experience preparing, presenting, and obtaining approval for project business cases.
• Experience managing project budgets, schedules, resources, risks, dependencies, and supplier performance.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to develop and execute comprehensive project plans aligned with business objectives.
• Define project scope, goals, deliverables, success criteria, and business outcomes with key stakeholders.
• Lead end‑to‑end delivery of complex IT and Data Platform projects from planning through governance and handoff.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, forecasts, milestones, dependencies, and risk registers.
• Balance requirements, priorities, costs, resources, and delivery trade‑offs with stakeholders; identify win‑win solutions.
• Ensure adherence to governance standards; raise risks and issues to management as required.
• Apply Agile methodologies to delivery by coordinating sprints and incremental value.
• Deliver projects within scope, quality, timeline, budget, and customer expectations.
• Identify, assess and mitigate risks; develop contingency plans and maintain risk registers.
• Manage change requests, documentation, minutes, and decision traceability.
• Oversee third‑party supplier engagements, including contract negotiations and performance management.
• Serve as liaison between project teams, business and technology stakeholders, and suppliers.
• Prepare and deliver status reports and executive updates for governance and steering meetings.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project leadership

Agile methodologies

Budget management

Risk management

Vendor management

Executive communication

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree in project management, Business Administration, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Job description

GXO Logistics, Inc. is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex IT and Data Platform initiatives, including data lakes and cloud technologies.

You will manage the full project lifecycle, partnering with business and technology stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment, governance, and operational excellence. Ideal candidates will have a track record delivering IT projects with a product focus, strong communication skills, and the ability to simplify complex concepts for executives.