Delivery Lead Manager

Accenture UK & Ireland; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland in Dublin seeks a Delivery Lead to oversee complex transformation programmes and lead end-to-end delivery. The role focuses on aligning outcomes with business objectives, managing cross-functional teams, and guiding delivery leadership with strategic input.

You will coordinate with client stakeholders, manage risks and dependencies, and ensure timely delivery within budgets and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field.
• Proven experience delivering technology projects through full delivery life cycle.
• Professional project management qualification (PMP, Prince2 or similar).
• Experience with waterfall and agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day delivery of complex transformation projects.
• Lead multi-functional teams and coordinate delivery across lifecycle.
• Provide functional and technical management to support design/implementation.
• Manage budgeting, forecasting and capacity planning.
• Report status and risks to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate across project teams to align goals and delivery.
• Build client trust and identify opportunities for innovation.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder communication

Governance & planning

Non-technical communication

Analytical problem solving

Hybrid/Scaled Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Delivery Lead:
Work in a culture that encourages innovative ideas to flourish and make a meaningful impact on our clients’ businesses and in our communities.

Deliver Lead Manager
Location: Dublin
Career Level: CL7 / Manager
Delivery Lead:
Work in a culture that encourages innovative ideas to flourish and make a meaningful impact on our clients’ businesses and in our communities. Accenture brings innovation, new technology skills and industry knowledge together to help clients innovate at scale, transform and grow their businesses.
Innovative work. A unique, diverse workplace environment. Unrivalled industry and functional expertise. Continuous learning and development opportunities. Competitive employee benefits. Core values drive everything we do. These are just some of the reasons why we’re consistently recognized as one of the best companies to work for, and why our people choose Accenture.
Accenture Delivery
We bring together cross-functional expertise to deliver impactful transformation programmes that help our clients achieve their strategic objectives. Our collaborative and inclusive culture encourages new ways of thinking, supports personal growth, and creates opportunities to build a rewarding and varied career. If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

Job Description:

As a Delivery Lead, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the successful delivery of complex transformation projects. A key element of your role is to lead and manage end-to-end delivery activities, ensuring outcomes are aligned with business objectives and deliver measurable value. Working closely with client stakeholders, you will build trusted relationships, provide delivery leadership and strategic guidance, and help shape solutions that address business challenges and support client goals. You will be responsible for coordinating cross-functional teams, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, quality standards and operational requirements. Experience delivering transformation and technology programmes within electricity transmission, distribution, generation, or broader energy organisations would be advantageous.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day delivery of high-quality projects and programmes, delivering solutions for our clients.
• Lead a multi-functional team, coordinating delivery activities across the project or programme lifecycle.
• Provide functional and technical management to support design and implementation work.
• Manage resource allocation, budgeting, forecasting and capacity planning for the project or programme
• Tracking and managing project or programme financials, ensuring delivery remains aligned with agreed objectives and targets.
• Integrated project and programme planning.
• Management of delivery risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies.
• Provide comprehensive status reporting and communication to senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with programme and project management, business owners, development, test and change teams, and operations to ensure alignment on goals and objectives.
• Become a trusted advisor to clients to ensure alignment between their expectations and our delivered solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance delivery efficiency, effectiveness, governance and quality.
• Develop and enhance relationships with clients to identify opportunities where Accenture’s solutions can bring further innovation and value to meet their needs
• Perform sales and solution support in delivery opportunities including solution planning, timeline, estimate and team structure.

Required skillset:

• Strong experience in delivery of complex projects or programmes.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong planning, organisation and governance capabilities.
• Ability to communicate findings and status to a non-technical audience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven track record leading delivery across hybrid and scaled agile models.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in delivery and leading technology projects through the full delivery life cycle.
• Professional qualification in project management. (e.g. PMP, Prince2, etc).
• Experience with waterfall and agile development methodologies.
• Proven ability to lead and manage people, within own reporting line and across wider teams, to achieve required outcomes.
• Ability to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Experience delivering projects or programmes within the electricity, energy or utilities sector would be highly desirable.