Senior Project Manager
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About the Role
Cognite seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead transformational AI implementation projects for industrial clients in Abu Dhabi. The role involves end-to-end project delivery, stakeholder management, and driving measurable business outcomes through Industrial AI solutions.
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Responsibilities
- Lead end to end project delivery from kickoff through deployment, adoption, and value realisation
- Own project scope, schedule, budget, quality, customer outcomes, and commercial performance
- Collaborate with Solution Architects, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Product teams, and Customer Success to deliver high quality solutions
- Translate customer objectives into measurable success metrics and facilitate Value Realisation Workshops to demonstrate business impact
- Manage project financials, including forecasting, revenue recognition, profitability, cost management, and reporting
- Build trusted relationships with customer stakeholders, lead steering committees, and provide clear communication throughout the project lifecycle
- Identify and manage risks, dependencies, and scope changes while ensuring appropriate governance and transparency
- Support customer adoption through change management, enablement, and training while recognising opportunities to expand customer value
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of delivery practices by applying Cognite's PMO methodologies, playbooks, and lessons learned
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline
- 5+ years of experience delivering complex software, SaaS, cloud, or enterprise technology implementation projects
- Experience managing enterprise or industrial digital transformation programmes involving multiple stakeholders and technical workstreams
- Technical fluency with APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, data architecture, and enterprise systems
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including forecasting, revenue recognition, margin management, and project profitability
- Experience within one or more industrial sectors, including Energy, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Utilities, Power & Renewables, or Life Sciences
- Experience working with Agile delivery methodologies and project governance frameworks such as Scrum, PMP, or PRINCE2
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or Smartsheet
- Willingness to travel up to 25% as required
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What Cognite is
- Cognite operates at the forefront of industrial digitalization, building AI and data solutions that solve the world’s hardest, highest impact problems.
- Our Moonshot is bold: Unlock $100B in customer value by 2035, and redefine how global industry works.
How you’ll demonstrate Ownership
- We're looking for a Project Manager who enjoys solving complex challenges, takes ownership of outcomes, and is motivated by delivering measurable value.
- This role goes beyond managing timelines; you'll lead transformational AI implementation projects that help some of the world's largest industrial organisations modernise the way they operate.
The Impact you bring to Cognite
- As the Project Manager, you'll be accountable for the successful delivery of complex Industrial AI implementation projects.
- Leading end to end project delivery from kickoff through deployment, adoption, and value realisation.
- Owning project scope, schedule, budget, quality, customer outcomes, and commercial performance.
- Collaborating with Solution Architects, Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Product teams, and Customer Success to deliver high quality solutions.
- Translating customer objectives into measurable success metrics and facilitating Value Realisation Workshops to demonstrate business impact.
- Managing project financials, including forecasting, revenue recognition, profitability, cost management, and reporting.
- Building trusted relationships with customer stakeholders, leading steering committees, and providing clear communication throughout the project lifecycle.
- Identifying and managing risks, dependencies, and scope changes while ensuring appropriate governance and transparency.
- Supporting customer adoption through change management, enablement, and training while recognising opportunities to expand customer value.
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of delivery practices by applying Cognite's PMO methodologies, playbooks, and lessons learned.
Required Qualifications
- A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience delivering complex software, SaaS, cloud, or enterprise technology implementation projects.
- Experience managing enterprise or industrial digital transformation programmes involving multiple stakeholders and technical workstreams.
- Technical fluency with APIs, integrations, cloud platforms, data architecture, and enterprise systems, enabling effective collaboration with technical teams and informed decision making.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including forecasting, revenue recognition, margin management, and project profitability.
- Experience within one or more industrial sectors, including Energy, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Utilities, Power & Renewables, or Life Sciences.
- Experience working with Agile delivery methodologies and project governance frameworks such as Scrum, PMP, or PRINCE2.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently across technical teams, customers, and executive stakeholders.
- Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or Smartsheet.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% as required.
Preferred Skills
- PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or Scrum certification.
- Cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
- Industrial IoT, SCADA, MES, or Operational Technology (OT) environments.
- AI, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, or Analytics implementation projects.
Why Cognite?
- At Cognite, you'll have the opportunity to work at the forefront of Industrial AI, partnering with some of the world's leading industrial organisations to solve complex, real world challenges.
- You'll join a collaborative, inclusive, and fast moving environment where innovation, curiosity, and continuous learning are encouraged.
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