Senior Project Manager - Dublin

Key Responsibilities

• Role Purpose
  The Senior Project Manager is accountable for the successful delivery of large, complex or multiple concurrent projects. They provide delivery leadership across significant customer engagements, ensuring delivery commitments, commercial objectives and customer outcomes are achieved while coaching and supporting Project Managers.
  Delivery Accountability 
  
  • Hold end-to-end accountability for the successful delivery of large, complex or multiple concurrent projects. 
  • Ensure delivery commitments, customer outcomes and commercial objectives are consistently achieved. 
  • Lead recovery activities for challenged projects and drive corrective actions where required. 
  • Take ownership of delivery performance across assigned engagements. 
• Delivery Leadership 
  
  • Manage programmes or groups of interrelated projects where required. 
  • Identify and manage cross-project dependencies and delivery impacts. 
  • Direct project managers and delivery teams in the successful execution of delivery plans. 
  • Act as a senior escalation point for significant delivery issues and risks. 
• Client and Stakeholder Management 
  
  • Build trusted relationships with senior customer stakeholders. 
  • Ensure a clear understanding of customer objectives, business priorities and expected outcomes. 
  • Support strategic customer discussions relating to delivery performance and future planning. 
  • Represent Codec professionally in all client interactions. 
• Commercial and Contractual Accountability 
  
  • Maintain oversight of project budgets, forecasts and delivery profitability. 
  • Validate project estimates and forecasts. 
  • Ensure delivery remains aligned with contractual commitments. 
  • Manage complex change requests and commercial implications. 
• Governance and Assurance 
  
  • Ensure consistent application of governance standards across projects. 
  • Maintain oversight of RAID management, planning, forecasting and reporting activities. 
  • Drive compliance with PMO controls, standards and quality gates. 
  • Ensure accurate and transparent reporting of delivery performance. 
• People Leadership 
  
  • Mentor and coach Project Managers. 
  • Share best practice and support capability development within the delivery community. 
  • Foster a culture of accountability, ownership and continuous improvement. 
  • Support Portfolio Managers in the leadership of strategic delivery programmes. 

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 5+ years' experience in a similar role as PM. 
• Project management qualification – Prince2 Practitioner/PMP. 
• Experience working in large enterprise organisations, delivering business applications projects, preferably within IT industry. 
• Experience with ERP projects (Microsoft Business Central) and CRM/Workflow projects (Microsoft Dynamics) is strongly desired but is not essential. 
• Demonstrated experience in the delivery of projects to agreed scope, budget and schedule. 
• Management of cross-functional project teams. 
• Proficient in MS Project 
• Experience operating in an agile, waterfall and Hybrid project management style. 
• Experience using Projector, or other Professional Services automation tools, is preferred but not essential. 

• Results focused. 
• Expert in planning and ability to multi-task and work to tight deadlines. 
• Great customer care and interpersonal skills. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders. 

About
Established over 40 years ago, Codec is a multi-award-winning Microsoft Solutions Partner, trusted by public and private sector organisations to deliver impactful digital transformation. With offices in Dublin, Belfast, Cologne, and across Germany, our team of over 300 experts specialises in harnessing the full potential of Microsoft technologies—including Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, and Copilot—to drive innovation, automation, and operational excellence. Codec combines deep industry expertise with a proven track record to help organisations unlock the power of AI and modern cloud solutionsThough originally best known as a hardware reseller, since 2010 Codec has focused on building an outstanding software consulting business with a team of experts implementing enterprise solutions using products from Microsoft and Oracle. Our customer base, revenues and average contract values have grown steadily year on year and we continue to invest in the provision of new product and service offerings.Our team is a careful mix of recent graduates and experienced professionals from a variety of diverse cultural backgrounds. We are a melting pot of seasoned consultants supported by the best talent from the local universities. We have a thriving placement student academy and graduate recruitment programme which grows year on year.This company is an equal opportunities employer