PMO Manager

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 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.

About the Role

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.

Required Skills

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Equal Opportunity Statement

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]

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