AI Implementation Project Manager

Role description

You will drive the planning, coordination, and Agile delivery of AI-related initiatives within an ICT environment. Serving as a hands-on planning and delivery lead, you will act as the central point of coordination between business stakeholders, ICT teams, and AI specialists to ensure all deliverables are strictly aligned with business needs. You will translate business challenges into actionable deliverables, with a strong focus on testing, coordination, and the successful delivery of AI MVPs and MDPs.

You will take ownership of the entire project lifecycle, from defining business requirements and prioritizing backlogs to overseeing testing and ensuring a smooth operational handover. Through continuous Agile delivery and cross-team discussions, you will manage dependencies across infrastructure, data, and application teams, turning complex AI opportunities into real business value.

This position is offered through an engineering consulting company. You will be employed by the consulting company and assigned to the client’s project.

Assignment: 1 year with the possibility of prolongation

Contract: Permanent (payroll) or freelance (B2B), based on your preference

Visa: Visa support is available only for candidates already residing in Belgium. If you are applying outside of Belgium, you must have EU-wide work authorization.

Work arrangement: 3 days on-site, 2 days flexible

Salary: €78k–€85k gross per year (payroll) or €650-€680 per day (freelance)

Start date: immediately

Responsibilities

• Translate business objectives into prioritized backlogs, deliverables, and sprint goals in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.
• Coordinate Agile delivery activities and foster discussion across infrastructure, application development, data, workbench, and other relevant ICT teams.
• Organize and facilitate sprint planning, progress meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Coordinate the testing and business validation of MVPs and MDPs, ensuring AI outputs meet agreed quality standards and business needs.
• Gather feedback, assess results, and ensure all AI use cases remain strictly aligned with expected business value.
• Facilitate requirements workshops to define actionable use cases, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria.
• Proactively follow up on commitments, clarify cross-team dependencies, and remove or escalate blockers.
• Ensure appropriate governance processes are followed, involving specialists in security, privacy, data access, and responsible AI.
• Coordinate release preparation, user communication, operational handover, and support responsibilities before go-live.
• Monitor project scope, timelines, resources, budgets, and risks, providing clear reporting to project teams and stakeholders.

Main requirements

• Previous experience working on AI-related projects or implementing AI solutions.
• Hands-on experience with AI agents and an understanding of their business applications.
• 5+ years of experience in project management within an ICT or technology-driven environment.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and Scrum practices.
• Sufficient technical understanding to navigate and discuss dependencies involving infrastructure, application development, data, and integrations.
• Experience in functional analysis, including requirements workshops, process mapping, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Dutch language at B2 level or higher.

Other requirements

• Familiarity with AI governance, responsible AI principles, and AI implementation challenges.
• Master's degree in IT, Computer Science, Design, or equivalent proficiency gained through experience (an extra 2-3 years of AI/ICT project management experience).
• Fluent English.

Nice to have, but not mandatory

• Project management certification
• Scrum Master certification.

Benefits

• Representation bonus of €140–€200 per month (payroll only).