Senior Project Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location:  St. Stephens Green

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 4th February 2026

 

Here at Royal London Ireland, we are seeking to hire a Senior Project Manager, required to deliver change projects or small portfolios which support achievement of the Group strategy, effectively and efficiently. To ensure business outcomes are clearly understood and associated solutions are delivered to enable the business to realise benefits on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards.

 

Overall responsibility for planning and leading the delivery of the whole change lifecycle for projects covering both Business, Regulatory and Technical driven change.

 

The team’s primary function is to provide overall responsibility for planning and leading the delivery of the whole change lifecycle for projects covering both Business and Technical driven change.

 

Key responsibilities

 

• Experience of leading project teams with minimal support and supervision.
• Highly competent in using planning tools and experienced in implementing and operating financial control frameworks
• Proven ability to demonstrate a drive for results and accountability of business  and technical needs
• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple areas in order to achieve a common business or technical objective
• Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate and enhance performance within a cross - functional environment
• Demonstrate decisiveness in resolving business problems, making decisions and identifying priorities
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, CIO and key stakeholders
• Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project lifecycle
• Identify and develop trusted adviser relationship with project stakeholders and sponsors
• Proactively identify, assess and manage project risks to ensure timely mitigation and successful delivery
• Ensure all change is delivered in accordance with Royal London Ireland’s change delivery framework and governance standards.
• Effectively manage third‑party suppliers to ensure delivery of agreed outcomes, quality and performance.

 

Criteria

 

• PRINCE2 or APM qualifications and awareness of basic accounting principles of life and pensions sufficient to be able to set context of project drivers.
• Excellent planning, co-ordination and organisation skills
• Strong leadership, diplomatic and motivational skills including the ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology organisations
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
• Build and maintain relationships by engaging business leaders to establish credibility, solve problems, build consensus and achieve objectives.
• Self-motivated, decisive, with the ability to adapt to change and competing demands
• Research best practices within and outside the organisation to establish benchmark data and use continuous process improvement disciplines to achieve results
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team(s) supported with strong influencing skills

 

 

About Royal London Ireland

Based in St Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Royal London Ireland is a fully owned subsidiary of the Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited, the largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company in the UK. We are authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland and provide protection products through Financial Brokers across Ireland. Our excellent customer service and mutual mindset means we take a longer-term view and focus on providing best customer outcomes.