Project Manager

Department: PMO

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Dublin, Dublin, Dublin, Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Hold end-to-end accountability for successful delivery of assigned projects. 
• Deliver projects to agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality and success criteria. 
• Maintain focus on project outcomes, ensuring delivery remains aligned to customer objectives and business value. 
• Take ownership of project performance and proactively address delivery risks, issues and obstacles. 
• Escalate delivery concerns appropriately and in a timely manner. 

• Act as the primary point of contact for assigned projects. 
• Build and maintain effective relationships with customer and subcontractor stakeholders. 
• Understand customer business objectives, culture and desired outcomes. 
• Understand the customer business case and identify where project delivery may impact expected benefits. 
• Work collaboratively with commercial, technical, operational and finance teams. 

• Ensure projects are delivered in accordance with contractual obligations. 
• Monitor client responsibilities and dependencies, escalating where obligations are not being met. 
• Support project forecasting, budgeting and cost management activities. 
• Identify and manage changes to scope through approved change control processes. 

• Establish and operate effective project governance aligned to organisational standards. 
• Maintain project plans, schedules and forecasting information. 
• Manage RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies). 
• Maintain accurate project records within organisational delivery tooling. 
• Ensure compliance with PMO standards and quality gate requirements. 

• Organise, direct and coordinate cross-functional project teams. 
• Set clear objectives and priorities. 
• Maintain focus on project success criteria and key milestones. 
• Support a positive delivery culture that promotes accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement. 
• Challenge poor performance and seek support where required. 

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience. 
• Experience working with large public/private organisation’s, delivering custom enterprise business applications projects and understanding the needs of these customers. 
• Experience of working with Microsoft Azure Cloud, Dynamics and data based projects. 
• Good technical understanding of the Microsoft technology stack.
• Experience of project delivery in the government, higher education or financial services sectors. 

• Experience of managing client facing engagements and controlling projects higher than €1M + in value. 
• Certification in Prince II, PMI, or equivalent project management methodology. 
• Degree level qualification, preferably in IT, Computer Science, or related field. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Results focused; competitive drive and ability to work under pressure. 
• Ability to work on own initiative in a fast-paced environment. 
• Keen attention to detail. 
• Ability to prioritise and multi-task within the role. 
• Excellent business and financial acumen with strong analytical ability. 
• Good judgement and decision-making skills.