• Full Time Fixed Term Contract position
• Hybrid role based in our City Centre offices

What we offer

We have embraced a hybrid working model for most of our positions, which means that you can enjoy a balanced approach of working from home for part of the week and working from the office for the remainder of the week.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive salaries and bonuses, robust Learning and Development support, excellent Defined Contribution pension and comprehensive Wellbeing initiatives and support to name but a few.

Further details on our benefits package can be accessed here Benefits (life-careers.com)

At Irish Life, our purpose is to help people build better futures. Our company values shape everything we do and underpin our vision of being the driving force behind Ireland’s financial, physical, and mental well-being.

We believe in doing the right thing—acting with integrity and making fair, responsible decisions. We aim high, setting ambitious goals and find better ways to innovate and improve. Our customers are at the heart of everything we do and we are dedicated to understanding their needs and exceeding their expectations. Achieving this this is only possible when we work best together—in a supportive, collaborative environment where every idea and contribution is valued.

Role Overview

To mobilise and lead business projects from discovery to closure, assuring delivery of agreed objectives and outcomes within defined scope, timeframe and budget. A proactive, diligent and focused approach is required to bring stakeholders together, closely managing all deliverables and milestones and escalating promptly where assistance or intervention is required.

Key Responsibilities

Impact on the Business
• Ensure business objectives are achieved through proactive and diligent management of projects to successful conclusion, including delivering an excellent customer and stakeholder experience.
• Enable the business to plan with confidence by providing accurate and timely communications on project status, challenges, risks and issues.
• Develop strong working relationships with Business Owners and with Change and IT teams to ensure delivery meets expectations.
• Deliver project objectives within the agreed project delivery framework and within budget, timeline and quality expectations.

Project Management
• Mobilise, manage and deliver projects through the full lifecycle, following the agreed project delivery framework.
• Drive delivery to ensure project objectives are achieved within scope, budget, timeline and quality expectations, using appropriate governance and gating processes.
• Lead cross-functional planning across all parties involved in the project, ensuring alignment to the overall project plan and tracking this alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage change control, ensuring implications of scope changes are understood and agreed, following formal change control and governance processes.
• Work with the Commercial Director to manage the project budget, understanding the initial baseline and tracking actual costs to prevent overruns.
• Ensure customer and end-user experience is considered, defined and managed as a core project deliverable.
• Secure sign-off on project deliverables in line with the agreed schedule.
• Monitor completion of tasks against the project schedule and proactively resolve any slippage in the plan.

More specific responsibilities will include

Communication, Reporting and Documentation
• Ensure consistent and rigorous documentation of all project deliverables, using version control where required.
• Produce and issue official minutes and records of key decisions to the project stakeholder group promptly.
• Produce regular status reports for the project team and wider business stakeholders that are timely, accurate, relevant and concise.
• Prepare materials for steering or governance groups, highlighting in a timely manner any support or intervention required.
• Use appropriate project and portfolio management tools for status reporting, RAID management, resource planning, scheduling and planning.

Suppliers and Third Parties
• Proactively manage vendors and third parties involved in the project to ensure deliverables are on time, to specification and meet agreed quality standards.
• Manage vendor costs with The Commercial Director throughout the project lifecycle, protecting the overall project budget.
• Secure and manage vendor commitment to deliverables and timelines within the integrated delivery plan.

Innovation and Change
• Take a proactive approach and build strong stakeholder relationships to navigate complexity and dependencies with other teams.
• Demonstrate the ability to pivot and embrace continuous improvement opportunities, adopting change to improve project outcomes.

Skills and Experience

• Thorough and practical understanding of the project lifecycle and delivery of cross-functional projects involving Business, Change and IT teams.
• Excellent project planning and project management skills.
• Knowledge of industry best-practice project management principles.
• Strong vendor and third-party management experience.
• Experience of managing cross-functional project teams, including virtual teams.
• Strong delivery focus with excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Experienced facilitator, able to lead workshops and group discussions effectively.
• Familiarity with project or portfolio management tools (for example PPM, workflow or collaboration tools such as Clarity or Jira).

Key Behaviours and Ways of Working

• Proactive in approach with strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong organisational and analytical skills.
• Effective communicator, confident presenting to senior leaders and diverse stakeholder groups.
• High attention to detail and accuracy in documentation.
• Rigorous and structured, whilst able to bring people together and influence to deliver desired outcomes.
• Able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a structured manner.
• Flexible and supportive team player, able to adapt to project needs and support the wider project team as required.

About us

Irish Life is one of Ireland’s largest financial institutions with a presence across a range of financial services markets. We are one of Ireland’s leading financial services groups with over 1.5 million customers. For over 80 years, we’ve been helping people to look after their life insurance, pension and investment needs, and more recently their health insurance.

It is a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco and a member of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies.

We are proud of our culture of developing and supporting the growth and professional development of our people. The focus has resulted in a team of top talent with high standards, positioning us at the forefront of our industry.

Application Process

If you feel you would be a great fit for this role, please discuss your interest in the position with your line manager first.

We then welcome you to submit your application (CV and Cover Letter) via the SuccessFactors portal. Applications are to be made through this location only, we don’t accept email applications. If you are currently an External Contractor working in the Group, please contact LifeCareers@irishlife.ie for further details before submitting an application.

Please note the closing date for receipt of applications is Thursday 28th May 2026 . If the Employee Referral Programme applies to this opportunity the deadline for submitting referrals is the same date as above. Applications/Referrals will not be accepted after this date. The post will be advertised across the Irish Life/ Canada Life Group.

If this role is a Permanent role and you are successful in this selection process, the standard terms and conditions of the new role (and if applicable new business unit) apply. The new terms and conditions may differ from your current terms and conditions. These changes may affect benefits such as Health benefit/allowance, Flexi leave/Flexi time arrangements, Pension Contributions or your Bonus range so it is very important to check and understand what changes may apply to you should you be successful in the selection process.

If this is a Secondment opportunity and you are successful in the selection process, a secondment allowance may be payable if your job grade increases with this appointment. In the event that this Secondment role becomes a Permanent role, management reserves the right to offer the secondee the permanent role without re-advertising. It is important that you consider this when deciding to submit an application for the Secondment role.

We reserve the right to select a shortlist from the applications received. The selection process employed will be at the discretion of the Group. We have sized this role at the job grade noted above however we reserve the right to underfill this role if required, at the grade most suited to the successful candidate in the process.

ILFS supports Equal Opportunity and is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

Project Manager - Business Projects - FTC - JG 10/11

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