Senior Delivery & Portfolio Leader

Nucleo Consulting Limited; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration package

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Contributory employer pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Learning & Development support

Job summary

Nucleo Consulting Limited is seeking a Senior Manager to translate practice strategy into strong commercial, delivery, customer and people outcomes in a defined portfolio.

You will lead Delivery Managers, drive governance, and ensure delivery aligns with customer outcomes and commercial objectives while upholding Nucleo standards. Significant leadership and strategic oversight are essential.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in consulting, professional services, technology delivery or transformation.
• Proven experience leading complex portfolios with commercial and stakeholder accountability.
• Strong financial management skills, including margin, utilisation, forecasting and profitability.
• Experience building high-performing teams, ideally managing other managers and blended employee/contractor teams.
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement and escalation management experience.
• Excellent communication, influencing and decision-making skills.
• Typically, 7+ years of relevant experience or equivalent depth of responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Own portfolio revenue, margin, utilisation, forecasting and profitability.
• Support bids, pricing, commercial reviews and account growth.
• Align pipeline, capacity and workforce planning.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Lead governance forums, manage escalations and drive customer outcomes.
• Oversee multiple engagements, risks, dependencies and performance.
• Lead and coach Delivery Managers and ensure accountability for delivery outcomes.
• Plan workforce capacity across employees and contractors.

Skills

Portfolio leadership

P&L management

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Change management

Financial forecasting

Job description

Nucleo Consulting Limited is seeking a Senior Manager to translate practice strategy into strong commercial, delivery, customer and people outcomes in a defined portfolio.

You will lead Delivery Managers, drive governance, and ensure delivery aligns with customer outcomes and commercial objectives while upholding Nucleo standards. Significant leadership and strategic oversight are essential.