Project Delivery Lead

MAD Colour; Ireland; Remote; EUR 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

31 days of annual leave

Collaborative work environment

Influence on project delivery

Job summary

Madcreativeni is seeking a Project Delivery Lead in Ireland to oversee successful project deliveries from inception to completion. This role involves leadership within production teams, ensuring projects are executed smoothly while maintaining quality and timelines.

The ideal candidate will possess strong project leadership skills, adaptability, and a commercial mindset. You will collaborate closely with various teams including design and client services, fostering a proactive and supportive environment.

Join us for a rewarding opportunity where your leadership impacts the brand and client satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary project delivery.
• Understanding of cost control and delivery trade-offs.
• Ability to resolve conflicts through collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of projects, builds, and installs.
• Work collaboratively with production teams to plan resources.
• Act as a calm escalation point during pressure.

Skills

Project delivery leadership

Commercial mindset

Conflict resolution

Clear communication

Organizational skills

Adaptability

Job description

If you enjoy working at the intersection of creativity and delivery, thrive on solving complex challenges with people, and want to help shape the future of Event Activations in Ireland, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a pivotal role in a business with creative energy, ambition and momentum. You’ll have genuine influence over how work gets done, how teams collaborate, and how we scale sustainably — without losing what makes MAD Colour special.

Competitive salary dependent on skills, knowledge, and experience.

Working Hours

Working hours – Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm

31 days of annual leave (plus an additional day per year of service up to 34 days)

Role Overview

The Project Delivery Lead is responsible for ensuring our projects, builds and installs are delivered smoothly, profitably and predictably, even when the work itself is complex and fast‑moving. This role is about more than organisation. It requires adaptability, sound judgement and a solutions‑driven mindset — someone who can bring structure without stifling creativity, and who is comfortable working in an environment where ideas evolve and challenges are solved collaboratively.

You will provide clear delivery leadership working alongside production teams in Joinery, Print, Logistics and Install and closely with design and client services teams to turn creative ambition into well‑executed reality.

Reports to: General Manager

Direct reports: Project Manager

What It’s Like to Be a Project Delivery Lead at MAD Colour

This role sits at the heart of how MAD Colour shows up for its clients and for each other.

As Project Delivery Lead, your days are varied, fast‑moving and deeply people‑focused. You’ll move between planning conversations, problem‑solving on the floor, creative discussions with design, and practical decision‑making with production, logistics and install teams. You’ll work closely with the Project Manager as a delivery partnership — setting direction, supporting decisions and creating the conditions for calm, confident delivery.

You’ll be trusted to lead when things are complex. That might mean helping a team rethink an approach, balancing creativity with feasibility, or stepping in to remove obstacles so others can do their best work. Your leadership style will shape how project delivery feels at MAD Colour — clear, collaborative and supportive rather than reactive or pressured.

What makes this role rewarding is seeing ideas turn into reality through teamwork. You’ll be there when projects come together, when installs land successfully, and when teams step back proud of what they’ve built. The work you lead will represent the MAD Colour brand — and the way it’s delivered will inspire confidence, trust and repeat business.

If you care about people, enjoy leading through influence, and take real pride in delivering work that others want to talk about, this role offers challenge, visibility and genuine satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

Delivery & Resource Management

• Lead the end‑to‑end delivery of projects, builds and installs — from confirmed brief through to successful on‑site completion.
• Work collaboratively with production teams to plan resources realistically, protecting capacity while enabling creative solutions.
• Maintain delivery schedules while responding intelligently to change, balancing deadlines, quality and feasibility.
• Act as a calm escalation point when pressure builds, helping teams navigate challenges constructively.

Provide clear visibility of project costs, ensuring delivery decisions are commercially sound.

Maintain practical cost tracking across labour, materials, subcontractors and delivery overheads.

• Review and manage change requests with a solutions‑focused mindset, protecting margin while supporting client relationships.
• Help complete the business journey from reactive fixes to informed, forward‑looking delivery decisions.

Planning, Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Lead weekly delivery planning meetings and focused stand‑ups during critical delivery periods.

Develop KPIs as insight tools — not just controls — to improve planning accuracy, quality and predictability.

• Introduce and refine delivery gates, escalation routes and ways of working that support clarity without bureaucracy.
• Learn from each project and help embed better ways of working across teams.

Team Leadership & Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Line manage and support the Project Manager, providing clarity, coaching and confidence.
• Build strong, respectful relationships across production, logistics and install teams.
• Work in close partnership with design and client services, enabling them to focus on ideas, visuals and client experience, knowing delivery is in safe hands.
• Act as a connector — aligning people, priorities and pace across the business.

Skills & Experience Required

• Experience leading complex, multi‑disciplinary project delivery, ideally within print, display, exhibitions, media & film production, fit‑out or event environments.

A strong commercial mindset, with an understanding of cost control and delivery trade‑offs.

• Highly organised but also adaptable — comfortable working with evolving briefs and creative nuance.
• Confident influencing others and resolving conflict through collaboration rather than authority alone.
• Clear communicator with the presence to work credibly across directors, creative teams and production teams.

What Success Looks Like

Projects delivered seamlessly and on time, with proactive planning not short‑term heroics.

Production teams feel confident and fully prepared.

• Creative teams feel empowered and supported to deliver their best work.
• Delivery feels smooth, clear and consistently predictable.