Digital Transformation & Automation Manager

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy; Leinster; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and pension

Life assurance

Health cash plan

30 days' annual leave

Training and career development

Free onsite parking

Modern working facilities

Job summary

MCS Group is partnering with a growing engineering and project-delivery organisation to appoint a Digital Transformation & Automation Manager in Dundalk. You will shape the organisation's digital transformation roadmap, advise senior leadership on technology investments and lead major business systems and automation initiatives from concept to adoption.

You will build the Business Systems & Automation capability, manage budgets and teams, drive Power Platform, Copilot, AI adoption, and translate

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading digital transformation and automation initiatives.
• Strong track record building business cases for technology investments at director level.
• End-to-end project/program delivery experience with budgets, resources and risks.
• Direct people-management and team-development experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a company-wide digital transformation roadmap.
• Assess existing systems and processes to identify improvement opportunities.
• Prepare business cases covering costs, benefits, risks and value.
• Present technology recommendations to senior leadership and drive adoption.
• Lead business systems, automation and transformation projects from concept through delivery.
• Drive use of Power Platform, Copilot, AI and low-code technologies; governance and change management.

Skills

Leadership

Strategy development

Stakeholder management

Change management

End-to-end delivery

Education

Degree or professional qualification

Tools

Power Automate

Power Apps

Power BI

Copilot

Low-code platforms

Job description

Digital Transformation & Automation Manager

Please note there is no sponsorship available for this role - all candidates must be in a commutable distance to Dundalk.

Location: Dundalk

Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

Hours: Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm; Friday 8am-3pm

MCS Group is partnering with a growing engineering and project-delivery organisation as it appoints a Digital Transformation & Automation Manager. This is a newly created senior position with responsibility for shaping the organisation's digital transformation roadmap, advising senior leadership on technology investments and leading major business systems and automation initiatives. You will work closely with directors and operational leaders to identify opportunities, develop robust business cases and deliver improvements from initial concept through implementation and adoption. You will also lead and develop the organisation's Business Systems & Automation capability.

The role

You will:

• Develop and maintain a company-wide digital transformation roadmap.
• Assess existing systems, processes and technologies to identify improvement opportunities.
• Prepare business cases covering costs, benefits, risks and expected value.
• Present clear technology and investment recommendations to senior leadership.
• Lead business systems, automation and transformation projects from concept through delivery.
• Drive practical use of Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot, AI and low-code technologies.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual work and improve operational visibility.
• Establish appropriate standards and governance for automation solutions.
• Manage project plans, budgets, resources, risks and dependencies.
• Support organisational change and the successful adoption of new systems.
• Lead, mentor and develop the Business Systems & Automation team.

The person

You will ideally bring:

• Significant experience leading digital transformation, business systems or process-improvement initiatives.
• A strong record of developing technology investment cases for director-level approval.
• End-to-end project or programme delivery experience, including budgets, resources and risk management.
• Direct people-management and team-development experience.
• Practical experience with Power Automate, Power Apps, Power BI, Copilot or comparable automation technologies.
• Experience evaluating business systems and identifying upgrade, consolidation or replacement opportunities.
• Strong change-management and user-adoption experience.
• The ability to translate technical options into clear commercial recommendations.
• A relevant degree, professional qualification or equivalent practical experience.

Experience within construction, engineering, manufacturing or another project-based environment would be advantageous. Exposure to ERP, document management, reporting or operational systems projects would also be beneficial.

What's on offer

• A senior role with genuine influence over transformation strategy and technology investment.
• The opportunity to build and develop a growing business systems and automation capability.
• Competitive salary and pension.
• Life assurance and health cash plan.
• 30 days' annual leave, increasing with service.
• Training and career-development opportunities.
• Free onsite parking and modern working facilities.