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Discovery Pipeline Manager
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Role: Discovery Pipeline Manager – Defence AI
Location: London (up to 1 day per week on site – Tuesday)
Contract: Until 31.03.2027, with potential extension
IR35: In scope
Day rate: £450 – 466 (umbrella)
This is a strategic role at the heart of the Defence AI portfolio, owning the end-to-end Discovery Pathway and ensuring that AI demand across Defence is captured, structured, and converted into clear, decision-ready opportunities that genuinely support war‑fighter needs and wider strategic outcomes.
What You Would Be Leading
- Owning a single, authoritative pipeline of AI opportunities and requests across Defence.
- Ensuring all demand is captured, tracked, and aligned to agreed prioritisation frameworks.
- Providing transparent reporting on pipeline health, volume, and flow into prioritisation, commissioning, and delivery.
- Designing and operating structured intake, triage, and prioritisation processes in line with team operating procedures.
- Translating fragmented or ambiguous demand into coherent themes and clear problem statements.
- Reducing low‑value, duplicative, or mis‑routed requests entering the pipeline.
- Leading continuous improvement of the Discovery Pathway, with clear entry criteria and robust discovery outputs.
- Managing hand‑offs from discovery into prioritisation, commissioning, and delivery so that problems entering delivery are well‑defined and evidence‑based.
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What Our Client Is Looking For
- Active SC Clearance strongly preferred.
- Proven experience in pipeline, portfolio, or demand management within complex organisations.
- Track record of designing and running structured intake and discovery processes.
- Ability to convert ambiguous or fragmented demand into clear, decision‑ready problem statements.
- Experience working across engagement, insight, and delivery functions.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including interaction with senior leaders.
- Confidence applying prioritisation frameworks and supporting evidence‑based decision‑making.
- Awareness of AI and its applications is desirable, but not expected to be in‑depth.
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Why this could be interesting for you
- Direct influence on how AI demand is shaped and prioritised across Defence.
- High‑visibility role interfacing with senior stakeholders, shaping a growing and strategically critical portfolio.
- Long‑term contract with stability through to at least March 2027, plus extension potential.
- Hybrid working with limited on‑site requirement (maximum one day per week in London).
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Our client participates in disability‑confident and armed forces covenant schemes. If you qualify for a guaranteed interview scheme, please mention this when you reply so it can be clearly highlighted in the process.
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