Certa Ireland is a wholly owned subsidiary of DCC plc and is part of the Energy Division of the Group. We are one of the country’s leading home heating oil, commercial fuel, and agricultural diesel suppliers, in addition to other business divisions including retail forecourts, fuel card services, lubricants. With strong renewable ambitions, we are leading the way in the supply of liquid biofuels and solar pv installation in Ireland to both domestic and commercial sectors. We aspire to having a powerful entrepreneurial spirit, a culture of high performance and teamwork, and exceptionally strong customer service.
DCC plc is one of Ireland’s most successful organisations, operating in various sectors including Energy, Technology and Healthcare. With annual sales of over €18 billion, and operations in 21 countries across 3 continents, DCC employs more than 15,400 people around the world. Being a part of our parent company means that while we retain the agility and local resonance of a smaller organisation, we also benefit from the strength and scale of a global company.
Certa Ireland welcomes applications from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with a disability. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please email [email protected]
Role overview
To enable and support Certa Ireland’s growth ambition, it now wishes to appoint a PMO Manager. The PMO function will serve as the linchpin connecting executive vision with operational execution.
The PMO Manager stands at the intersection of strategy and delivery, responsible for establishing/evolving governance frameworks, optimizing portfolio performance, and demonstrating tangible business value.
The role is responsible for strategic portfolio management, governance framework development, resource optimization across projects, stakeholder management at executive levels, and delivering PMO value.
They will establish and/or improve standards and methodologies, select appropriate tools and technologies, and ensure project delivery aligns with organizational strategy while maximizing return on investment.
The successful candidate will also be expected to deliver agreed high impact projects that align with strategic objectives while maximizing resource efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Operate as a strategic business partner who bridge the gap between the senior leadership team and project delivery teams.
- Responsible for building, maintaining and optimising the infrastructure that enables consistent, successful project delivery while demonstrating measurable business value.
- Support the setting of strategic direction, secure executive sponsorship, and make high-level decisions about portfolio prioritization and resource allocation.
- Deliver specific programs/projects with defined outcomes,
- Own and evolve the governance frameworks and standards that all programs follow.
- Translate executive vision into actionable project initiatives that drive business value.
- Design and oversee the entire project delivery ecosystem.
- Implement project management methodologies that fit organizational culture and project types.
- Balance immediate project needs against long-term capability development.
- Identify and decide appropriate trade-offs that optimize organizational outcomes (skills, availability, costs, and strategic priorities), rather than solely individual project success in isolation.
- Cultivate relationships across departments, breaking down silos that impede project delivery.
- Position the PMO as a business partner rather than a bureaucratic oversight function, demonstrating how PMO services enable departmental success.
- Serve as a neutral, facilitating resolution through established governance processes, data-driven analysis, and consensus-building techniques.
- Regularly review processes to eliminate unnecessary bureaucracy, streamline workflows, and remove barriers to project success.
Deliverables
- Create executive dashboards, conduct regular value assessments, gather stakeholder feedback, and quantify benefits such as cost avoidance, efficiency gains, and strategic goal achievement
- Develop scoring models that consider factors such as strategic alignment, return on investment, risk profile, resource availability, and dependencies, that Deliver Value to the business.
- Anticipate future organizational needs, technological shifts, and market changes to position the organization for continued success.
- Establishing as appropriate, steering committees, project boards, and working groups with clearly defined roles, responsibilities, and escalation paths.
- Effective governance v’s control with empowerment, ensuring appropriate oversight without creating bureaucratic bottlenecks.
- Deliver value rather than simply creating process overload.
Competencies
Professional Project Management qualification.
Strong leadership, business acumen, and stakeholder management skills are essential.
Skill in delivering difficult messages, negotiating scope adjustments, and building consensus around prioritization decisions that inevitably disappoint some stakeholders.
Strategic Thinking and Vision: Ability to see beyond immediate projects to envision how the PMO and portfolio contribute to long-term organizational success
Influence and Persuasion: Skill in gaining buy-in without direct authority, convincing stakeholders through logic, data, and relationship capital
Emotional Intelligence: Understanding and managing emotions—both your own and others’—to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics
Change Management: Leading organizational transformation as PMO maturity evolves and new processes, tools, or methodologies are introduced
Experience Required
- 10-15 years of progressive project management experience
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Proven experience of successfully managing large scale enterprise-wide projects
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Proven experience of developing/leading a PMO function that has demonstrated measurable and defined benefits and organisational value.
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Build and lead high-performing teams comprising project managers, analysts, coordinators, and specialists
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Cross-Project Resource Allocation: Resource modelling that considers skills, availability, costs, and strategic priorities.
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Capacity Planning and Forecasting: Identify capability gaps and develop strategies to address shortfalls. This might involve hiring decisions, training investments, contractor engagement, or portfolio adjustments to match available capacity.
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Talent Development and Skill Gap Analysis: While managing current resources, the PMO Manager must build organizational capability for the future. Assess current skill inventories, identify emerging capability requirements, and design development programs that prepare the organization for evolving project demands.
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Vendor and Contractor Management: Leverage external resources, establish vendor management processes, contracting standards, and performance oversight mechanisms.
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Budget Oversight and Financial Management: Develop and manage PMO budgets, track portfolio-level financial performance, and ensure appropriate financial controls.
Our Values:
Safety First
Our priority on safety has always been the foundation of our sustained success in business. We always prioritise the safety of our employees, contractors, customers and any others who may be affected by our business activities. This is why we continuously look for ways to improve our culture, systems, and our processes around safe practices.
Bold & Courageous
We embrace challenges with the determination to succeed. We push our boundaries and challenge the status quo. Every day we strive to understand the limits of “what’s possible?” and “why not?”. Both as individuals and as a collective, we strive to find innovative solutions to problems for our shared future and achieve our goal of becoming Ireland’s most loved, most efficient and most profitable energy brand.
One Team
We are one team and work with a shared vision; which is to always do the right thing for our customers, our businesses and our people. Internally, we operate without silos, and we say what we feel, we’re always respectful, honest and empathetic to different views and opinions, embracing diversity and nurturing inclusivity. We’re problem solvers who are never afraid to take the initiative and personal ownership of the part that we play. Our one-team culture means that we’re stronger together and are capable of accomplishing great things.
Irrepressible Performance
We at Certa share a collective entrepreneurial spirit, an agile approach to solving problems, a passion for accuracy, a dedicated work ethic and an unwavering commitment in serving our customers. Performance is at the heart of what we do and it makes us continuously seek new ways to improve what we do. Our pursuit of excellence demands that each one of us bring a consistently strong performance to their work every day, thus ensuring the long-term success and growth of our business.
Customer Obsessed
We take pride in defying expectations. We keep on our toes and come up with fresh ways to do things in response to changing customer requirements. Our increased focus on being customer-centric across the organisation drives us to deliver the best-in-class experiences to our customers. This is what helps us build enduring and lasting relationships based on trust, value and respect. Our shared belief in environmental citizenship and our philosophy of small steps over time equals big strides, helps us build an energy-efficient future for our customers and for our planet.
