Strategic Delivery Executive – Financial Services

Quest Recruitment; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Recruitment is supporting an established international financial services organisation in Dublin to appoint a Head of Strategic Delivery. This senior role leads a portfolio of cross-border initiatives, including new product launches, market expansion and major implementations.

Reporting to executive leadership, you will establish governance, drive delivery excellence, and coordinate across Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Product and Underwriting.

Qualifications

• Approximately 10+ years' experience in insurance, banking, financial services or consulting.
• Significant experience in senior programme, implementation, transformation or business delivery roles.
• A proven track record of delivering complex, multi-functional programmes, ideally across more than one jurisdiction.
• Experience leading product launches, strategic partnerships, market-entry programmes or large-scale operational change.
• Strong portfolio and programme management experience.
• Experience working within a regulated financial services environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including engagement with executive and board-level stakeholders.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to translate strategy into structured execution.
• Ability to influence across functions and manage competing priorities in complex environments.
• Strong leadership skills with experience developing high-performing teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Providing strategic oversight across a portfolio of complex business and market expansion initiatives.
• Establishing governance, programme structures, implementation frameworks and decision-making processes.
• Managing multiple concurrent projects across different markets and business areas.
• Setting priorities and ensuring resources are deployed effectively across the programme portfolio.
• Translating commercial objectives into practical delivery plans, milestones and operational requirements.
• Overseeing initiatives from initial scoping and planning through to launch and transition into business-as-usual operations.
• Defining clear implementation, operational readiness and go-live criteria.
• Maintaining senior-level involvement in particularly complex or strategically important projects.
• Coordinating cross-functional teams across multiple departments and jurisdictions.
• Managing relationships with senior internal stakeholders, external business partners and third-party providers.
• Establishing effective steering committees, reporting structures and escalation processes.
• Identifying and managing operational, regulatory, contractual and delivery risks.
• Ensuring appropriate documentation, governance and audit trails are maintained throughout each programme.
• Driving continuous improvement in programme delivery methodologies, tools and processes.
• Leading, coaching and developing a team responsible for the delivery of strategic initiatives.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Delivery governance

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional work

Regulated environment

Product launches

Market expansion

Education

Business/Tech/PM

Job description

Quest Recruitment is supporting an established international financial services organisation in Dublin to appoint a Head of Strategic Delivery. This senior role leads a portfolio of cross-border initiatives, including new product launches, market expansion and major implementations.

Reporting to executive leadership, you will establish governance, drive delivery excellence, and coordinate across Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, Product and Underwriting.