The Opportunity

This role offers a highly motivated and organized Graduate Project Manager the opportunity to gain hands-on experience working across a range of commercial and operational initiatives within the Ireland division. The Graduate Project Manager will be exposed to various aspects of project management, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional collaboration, providing strong development opportunities, exposure to senior management and a foundation for a future role in Commercial, Operations, Strategy, or Project Management, within the organisation.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Manage the planning, executing, closing and monitoring projects, ensuring they are completed on time, in scope, and to budget.
Prepare and maintain relevant project management documentation, including business appraisals, business planning, risk registers, and status reports.
Lead project-level communications with delivery teams and project sponsors. Facilitate workshops, stand-up meetings and demonstrations to key stakeholders.
Actively contribute to deliver on all projects as part of the implementation/delivery team

Key Projects / Initiatives

Commercial Excellence:

- Support the implementation of initiatives aimed at improving commercial performance and efficiency within the Ireland Division
- Collaborate with the Commercial Directors, Sales Managers and relevant IT, Data and Support functions to implement improvements in Contracts Management, Operations Reporting, Pricing Analysis, Sales Force Effectiveness, Systems Implementation and Stock Optimization. Including tracking progress vs plan, quantifying net margin impact and monitoring change acceptance.

Strategic Initiatives :

- Assist the Strategic Initiatives Manager and Business Development Director with executing Strategic Initiatives relating to the Key Agencies for the Ireland Distribution business
- Provide support for a bolt-on acquisition integration project, working with various commercial, operations, finance, IT, HR and Quality workstreams
- Complete detailed cost to serve financial analysis and process mapping to identify operational efficiencies in one business unit.

Digital Transformation Initiatives :

- Project manage the delivery and integration of a 3rd Party order and invoice management system within Customer Services and Finance (Accounts Payables) teams to automate sales order and supplier invoice processing.

Note: The successful candidate will be joining live projects, providing an opportunity to add value to the team immediately. This is not an exhaustive list.

Experience & profile:

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

Minimum 2:1 grade university degree. Applications from all disciplines will be reviewed but an emphasis in Commerce, Economics, Business Information Systems, and or Finance is preferred.
Fluent English speaker and strong communication skills
Interest in a career in commercial and/or operations disciplines
High learning agility, adaptability and problem-solving ability
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across functional areas to deliver results.
Proficiency and experience working with applications including SAP, Business Intelligence Applications, Microsoft Excel, Power Automate, CoPilot etc.
A strong understanding and relevant experience in the healthcare industry is preferred

Other Information:

The Company operates a hybrid work policy. The successful candidate will be expected to be present in the office 3/5 days each week, with Monday and Wednesday as core team days.
The Company is an equal opportunity employer and operates quality and EHS management systems across all sites. Employees agree to comply within the requirement relevant to the role

Please note although the above is a description of the requirements of the role, as stated in your contract of employment, you may be required to carry out other reasonable duties as the Company may require from time to time.

Please note that all DCC Vital staff work within quality management systems and that all the above will apply to the product portfolio.

DCC Vital is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Graduate Project Manager

Job Description