PROGRAMME MANAGER

Job Title: PROGRAMME MANAGER
Skills: PRINCE , PMI
Location: Dublin City
Eolas Reference: CW6581
Contact: Peter Kirby
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Description:
Excellent opportunity for an Progarmme Manager with a large public service Company in Dublin City Centre. You must have a proven track record of working on large scale multi-million euro projects. The role involves complex Vendor Mgt and dealing with many senior stakeholders.

The Job:
The Core Responsibilities of the role are:
•To drive forward through co-ordination the activities of all suppliers and contractors that, when integrated, provide the end-to-end scheme.
•To manage an effective programme for the full implementation of the scheme including management of the suppliers contracted directly by the company and to co-ordinate the deliveries of those contracted to other parties involved. A key aspect of the role is constant liaison with multiple external supplies and stakeholders.
•To identify all problems in time, cost or quality sufficiently early and insist that the appropriate action is taken to ensure the overall programme is not adversely impacted.
•To work closely with the project team/ Project Director, IBM and their subcontractor to ensure efficient and effective delivery of the project.
•To report on progress against budget, programme and quality in weekly and monthly review meetings, Board meetings and other reviews as required.
•To identify risks and issues to the overall project and maintain effective risk and issue registers.
•To manage regular meetings with all suppliers to mitigate risks and resolve issues.
•To manage control mechanisms that ensure there is no scope creep in the deliverables.
•To manage control mechanisms that ensure costs are kept in line with the project budget.


In summary, to be responsible for managing programme coordination and communication between all stakeholders, including suppliers and other interested parties.

Experience:
Candidates shall have:
•Minimum 10 years experience in a senior management role in multi-million Euro projects involving IT or software development where multiple suppliers systems were integrated to deliver an effective end-user system.
•Proven experience obtained whilst managing projects that included systems where:
oModern software development processes were used
oThere was significant external stakeholder involvement oDistributed teams contributed significantly to the delivery of the overall project.
•Proven experience of managing people in a complex multi-supplier environment.
•Technical experience of implementing complex projects within a large IT infrastructure environment.
•Proven experience of budgetary control of at least 4 significant projects.
•Demonstrable experience of decisive decision making in a complex project environment.
•Excellent communication skills
•Excellent leadership abilities and Significant experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.


It is desirable that candidates have: •A formal project management qualification or accreditation. •Familiarity with smart card technology. •Good awareness of the public sector environment in Dublin. •Familiarity with high-volume low-value financial transaction processing systems.

Salary: €75-100k per annum plus befor a 12-18 month fixed term contract.