AI Integration Program Manager

The AI Integration Program Manager is accountable for coordinating and delivering AWIP's portfolio of approved AI, automation, systems, and digital transformation initiatives. This role brings together functional leaders, process owners, IT/IS, third-party partners, and site teams to turn defined business priorities into implemented, adopted, and measurable solutions.

This is a business-led program delivery role, not primarily a software development position. The manager will create structure across competing priorities, clarify ownership, manage available bandwidth, establish realistic timelines, and hold stakeholders accountable for decisions and deliverables. The role must be comfortable constructively challenging assumptions, pushing technical partners to remain future-focused, and helping teams find responsible paths to "yes" when constraints or roadblocks arise.

Success will be measured by the timely completion, implementation, adoption, and sustained business impact of the projects identified in AWIP's transformation roadmap.

• Own the integrated roadmap for AWIP's approved AI, automation, systems, and digital transformation projects across functions and locations.
• Convert identified initiatives into clear project charters with scope, objectives, business owners, requirements, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, and success measures.
• Facilitate portfolio prioritization using business value, strategic alignment, urgency, implementation effort, risk, technical feasibility, and available capacity.
• Create a realistic delivery sequence that accounts for shared IT resources, operational demands, vendor capacity, and cross-project dependencies.
• Maintain one transparent source of truth for project status, decisions, risks, resource constraints, and upcoming commitments.
• Escalate unresolved priority conflicts and capacity constraints with clear options, impacts, and recommended decisions.

• Serve as the central integration point among AWIP departments, site and corporate leaders, IT/IS, Kingspan stakeholders, technical teams, and third-party vendors.
• Establish clear decision rights, accountable owners, working teams, meeting cadence, communication protocols, and escalation paths for each initiative.
• Translate operational needs into clear business requirements and ensure technical decisions remain aligned with the intended business outcome.
• Drive timely stakeholder decisions, surface misalignment early, and hold contributors accountable for actions, deadlines, testing, approvals, and readiness activities.
• Communicate project status and tradeoffs in concise, decision-ready terms for functional and executive leadership.

• Lead assigned initiatives from business-case validation and requirements through design, configuration or development, testing, approval, deployment, adoption, and post-launch stabilization.
• Build and manage integrated project plans with defined milestones, dependencies, owners, deadlines, decision gates, and acceptance criteria.
• Run disciplined project governance, including status reviews, action tracking, risk and issue management, scope control, decision logs, and executive escalation.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, data readiness, process changes, cutover planning, communications, training, and go-live support.
• Prevent pilots from stalling by defining ownership, exit criteria, funding and resource needs, go-live requirements, and scale plans at the outset.
• Confirm completed solutions are operationally usable, supported, documented, and transitioned to an accountable process or system owner.

• Partner closely with IT/IS while representing the urgency, operational needs, and strategic priorities of the business.
• Constructively challenge legacy assumptions, premature rejection, and short-term technical thinking; require clear rationale, evidence, and alternatives when a requested approach cannot proceed.
• Lead teams from "no" toward responsible options by reframing…