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The AI Delivery Lead – Spain is a senior, hands-on delivery leadership role responsible for transforming and stabilising the quality, consistency, and governance of AI project delivery across the Spanish region. The role exists to address ongoing delivery challenges, customer escalations and lack of structured project control by introducing stronger operational discipline, customer leadership and improved ways of working across the AI practice. The postholder will both line manage Technical Project Managers and directly own strategic or high-risk AI projects, ensuring disciplined execution, proactive client management and unified coordination across multidisciplinary delivery teams. This role is essential in shifting Spain based AI delivery to a more predictable, accountable and outcome focused model.
Job Responsibility:
Hold overall accountability for AI delivery execution across Spain
Establish, implement and enforce strong delivery governance, project controls and reporting mechanisms
Drive customers to meet contractual and technical prerequisites before and during delivery
Proactively lead customers, ensuring clear expectations, structured communication and confident handling of challenging conversations
Represent Delivery in multiple executive-level SteerCos and internal governance forums, providing clear and assertive status, risks and mitigation updates
Line manage, coach and develop Developers and Linguists within the AI practice
Raise delivery maturity by creating a culture of ownership, clarity, accountability and disciplined execution
Challenge, support and upskill team to adopt consistent best-practice methods and ways of working
Personally lead, recover or deliver complex, strategic or at-risk AI projects
Serve as the senior delivery authority in difficult client environments, including those with legacy constraints or poor readiness
Ensure effective coordination across international engineering, consulting, AI, linguistic and platform teams to deliver unified outcomes
Partner closely with the AI Practice Leadership and AI Program Manager to embed consistent quality standards
Escalate delivery blockers promptly and confidently, both internally and with clients
Improve internal operational processes to address the current fragmentation within Spain delivery
Requirements:
Senior delivery leadership experience within complex technology or AI programmes
Strong background in delivery management and structured project control
Proven track record in managing, leading and recovering challenging or failing projects
Experience working with international and nearshore/offshore delivery teams
Demonstrable senior-level customer leadership, including stakeholder management up to executive and SteerCo level
Ability to introduce structure, governance and disciplined execution into a delivery organisation
Fluent in English and Spanish (written and spoken)
Comfortable operating under pressure, in ambiguous situations, and within challenging customer environments
Nice to have:
Experience in enterprise, regulated or large-scale client environments
Prior exposure to multidisciplinary AI project delivery (engineering, data, linguistics, automation), even if role itself is non-technical
Familiarity with delivery models for outcome-based AI projects
What we offer:
Pension Scheme
Remote/Flexible work
Life insurance
Private health
Plus many more! (Benefits are dependant on your base location.)