AI Program Manager
Location: Poland, Greece, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Spain, Portugal, home-based
Role Description
We are seeking an AI Program Manager to oversee the Agentic AI portfolio within the ATS CAITI organization. This role operates as part of a team of Program Managers, collectively responsible for ensuring that multiple Agentic AI initiatives progress in a coordinated, transparent, and governed manner from Concept through Production.
The AI Program Manager owns program‑ and portfolio‑level governance, including planning cadence, dependency management, risk and issue oversight, financial tracking, and executive reporting. The role acts as the integrator across Product, Architecture, Engineering, QA/Validation, Vendor Oversight, and Business Transformation, ensuring alignment with approved business cases, development stages, and regulatory expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Govern a portfolio of Agentic AI initiatives, ensuring alignment to approved business cases, development stages, and the CAITI operating and delivery model.
- Establish and maintain program cadence, including planning cycles, stage-gate reviews, portfolio reviews, and executive/steering committee updates.
- Manage cross-initiative dependencies, risks, and issues, driving early identification, escalation, and coordinated resolution across squads and workstreams.
- Own program-level reporting across schedule, scope, risks, and financials (CapEx / OpEx), ensuring accuracy, traceability, and audit readiness.
- Coordinate stage-gate progression across Concept, Proof of Concept, MVP, and Production, ensuring readiness criteria are met before advancement.
- Partner with AI Product Managers and Engineering Managers to ensure delivery plans align with portfolio priorities, capacity, and sequencing constraints.
- Support vendor oversight and integration by coordinating timelines, dependencies, and escalation paths in collaboration with Vendor Oversight leads.
- Facilitate portfolio-level forums (program reviews, investment reviews, steering committees), preparing materials and surfacing decisions, risks, and trade-offs.
- Ensure alignment with QA/Validation, regulatory, and information governance expectations by tracking required artifacts, reviews, and approvals at program level.
- Continuously improve program governance practices, templates, and reporting mechanisms to support scaling of the Agentic AI portfolio.
Key Qualifications
Experience
- 6+ years in program or portfolio management roles, preferably in technology, AI, or data-driven environments.
- Proven experience managing multiple parallel initiatives with shared dependencies and constrained resources.
- Experience operating within regulated or highly governed enterprise environments.
Agentic & Technical Background
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical, quantitative, or business discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles, particularly for AI- or data-intensive systems.
- Ability to engage credibly with Product, Architecture, Engineering, and QA leaders on plans, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs (without owning technical decisions).
Ways of Working
- Strong communication and executive-level reporting skills.
- Structured, detail-oriented, and comfortable managing ambiguity across fast-moving innovation portfolios.
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com
IQVIA is committed to integrity in our hiring process and maintains a zero tolerance policy for candidate fraud. All information and credentials submitted in your application must be truthful and complete. Any false statements, misrepresentations, or material omissions during the recruitment process will result in immediate disqualification of your application, or termination of employment if discovered later, in accordance with applicable law. We appreciate your honesty and professionalism.
Skills Required
- 6+ years in program or portfolio management roles
- Experience managing multiple parallel initiatives
- Experience in regulated enterprise environments
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline
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What We Do
IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. IQVIA creates intelligent connections across all aspects of healthcare through its analytics, transformative technology, big data resources and extensive domain expertise. IQVIA Connected Intelligence™ delivers powerful insights with speed and agility — enabling customers to accelerate the clinical development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments that improve healthcare outcomes for patients. With approximately 70,000 employees, IQVIA conducts operations in more than 100 countries. To learn more, visit www.iqvia.com.
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