Responsibilities

• End-to-end project leadership (industry deployment): Plan, execute, monitor and close concurrent AI deployment projects across manufacturing partners, ensuring delivery on scope, schedule, cost, quality and deployment readiness.
• Industry problem scoping & requirements translation: Deep-dive with technical/research teams and industry stakeholders to convert operational pain points into clear requirements, milestones, and acceptance criteria for deployment.
• Cross-functional orchestration: Act as the execution integrator across AI researchers, manufacturing domain experts, AI engineering/productisation teams, Business Development, Ops/Finance/Legal to ensure smooth delivery and fast issue resolution.
• Governance, compliance & reporting: Ensure compliance to programme governance and grantor requirements; drive disciplined reporting to internal and external stakeholders using programme rhythms (e.g., project dashboards / cadence...