Discovery Pipeline Manager

Role: Discovery Pipeline Manager - Defence AILocation: London (up to 1 day per week on site - Tuesday)Contract: Until , with potential extensionIR35: In scopeDay 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 leadingOwning 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.What our client is looking forActive SC Clearance strongly prefffered. Proven experience in pipeline, portfolio or demand management within ..... full job details .....