We have an exciting vacancy for a Project Manager within our PMO team.
You will successfully manage allocated multidisciplinary projects and their associated activities from conception through to completion, delivering work that meets project requirements.
You will have a strong technical background (MS Azure and Dynamics) and experience managing projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Responsibilities:
Role Purpose
The Project Manager is accountable for the successful delivery of assigned projects, ensuring agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality and customer outcomes are achieved. The Project Manager provides day-to-day leadership of project teams and serves as the primary point of accountability for project execution.
Key Responsibilities
Delivery Accountability
- 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.
Client and Stakeholder Management
- 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.
Commercial and Contractual Management
- 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.
Governance and Controls
- 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.
Team Leadership
- 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.
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- 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.
Advantageous:
- 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.
Skills/Behavioural Competencies:
- 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.
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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 solutions
Though 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
