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Project Manager – Data & AI Delivery
ONLY W2
Cleveland, OH | Onsite 5 days/week
About the Role
Sarral Global Inc. is seeking an experienced Project Manager to own delivery across multiple concurrent data and AI projects for a Fortune 500 manufacturing client headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. This is a client-facing role embedded onsite with the client team.
The Project Manager will be the single point of accountability for scope, schedule, delivery quality, and commercial milestones across the project portfolio, coordinating between client stakeholders and Sarral''s technical delivery team.
This position requires onsite presence in Cleveland, Ohio five days per week. Remote and hybrid arrangements are not available.
Key Responsibilities
• Manage multiple parallel projects within a single client account, from initiation through final acceptance.
• Run agile delivery cadence: sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, demos, and retrospectives.
• Own executive reporting — weekly status decks, steering committee presentations, and sprint review materials for mixed executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Serve as the primary liaison between client executive sponsors, client project managers, business SMEs, and the Sarral delivery team.
• Coordinate onshore and offshore resources including solution architects, data engineers, and UI developers.
• Manage SOW scope, change control, milestone acceptance forms, and invoicing triggers.
• Track, communicate, and escalate risks, dependencies, and blockers before they impact delivery commitments.
• Facilitate SME validation cycles and secure business sign-off on delivered artifacts.
• Support resource planning, onboarding, and account growth as the engagement expands.
Required Qualifications
• 8 years of project management experience, including a minimum of 4 years in a consulting or professional services delivery model.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects under a single enterprise client account.
• Working knowledge of modern data platforms — Databricks, lakehouse architecture, data pipelines, and data governance.
• Strong agile/scrum background on fixed-timeline, milestone-based engagements.
• Executive presence and proven ability to present to VP and C-level client stakeholders.
• Advanced PowerPoint and reporting skills; able to build executive-quality decks from scratch on short turnaround.
• Experience with SOW-driven commercial mechanics: milestones, acceptance criteria, and billing gates.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and MS Project or equivalent tooling.
• Must be able to work onsite in Cleveland, OH five days per week.
Preferred Qualifications
• PMP, CSM, or SAFe certification.
• Experience delivering AI/ML or generative AI programs in an enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with product data ecosystems — PIM, MDM, product hierarchies, and knowledge graphs.
• Prior experience in manufacturing, CPG, or industrial sectors.
Candidate Profile
We are looking for someone who can step in quickly, absorb an in-flight program, and run it without an extended ramp-up period. The right candidate is comfortable operating with ambiguity, direct in stakeholder communication, and able to keep several workstreams moving in parallel.