Consultant - Project Governance DATA/ AI

Role focus

Role capabilities

• Supply and demand planning, resource management and optimization, sales and delivery governance, process improvement, and operational excellence.
• Budget and forecast coordination, data reconciliation, analytical problem solving, management reporting, and dashboarding.
• Stakeholder coordination, structured documentation, attention to detail, and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an integrated view of Data & AI resource supply and demand across current resources, recruitment and partner pipelines, active projects, backlog, and sales pipeline.
• Reconcile resource allocations across project plans, resource-management systems, and forecasts, resolving gaps or discrepancies.
• Facilitate regular supply-demand reviews and track agreed resource actions through completion.
• Strengthen governance for RFI/RFP reviews, deal qualification, and opportunity-to-project handover.
• Support adoption of the agreed Data & AI delivery methodology, templates, and governance checkpoints.
• Facilitate post-delivery feedback on delivery performance, estimation accuracy, and lessons learned.
• Support budget and forecast preparation by aligning resource plans with delivery, backlog, and pipeline requirements.
• Maintain operational calendars, action trackers, and management dashboards covering resource health and delivery readiness.
• Identify process bottlenecks and drive standardization, automation, and continuous improvement across operational workflows.
• Develop and maintain SOPs, process maps, RACI matrices, and governance templates for critical processes.
• Provide practice leadership with decision-ready information on resource, delivery, and process performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
• 6–8 years of experience in business operations, resource management, PMO, delivery governance, or workforce planning within an IT services or consulting organization.
• Strong understanding of resource supply-demand management and project-based workforce planning.
• Experience working with project managers, finance, recruitment, sales, and resource-management teams.
• Good understanding of project financial concepts including revenue, cost, margin, budget, and utilization.
• Experience with project/resource management, ERP, or workforce-planning systems.
• Advanced working knowledge of Excel and strong management-reporting and data-analysis capability.
• Strong written and verbal English communication, with ability to follow through across multiple stakeholders.

Tools and additional experience

• Experience with resource-management platforms such as Clarity or equivalent systems.
• Experience supporting annual budgeting, forecasting, or headcount planning.
• Experience designing operational dashboards using Power BI or similar analytics tools.
• Background in process improvement and understanding of the sales lifecycle, RFI/RFP processes, and delivery governance.