Senior Project Manager - Technical

Uniphar is embarking on an ambitious, multiyear transformation programme and is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead the delivery of technology and software driven initiatives that underpin our modernisation agenda. Working closely with engineering, architecture, security, and business stakeholders, the Technical Project Manager will ensure technical workstreams are well-planned, integrated, and governed. Success in the role will be measured through the effective delivery of technical outcomes, improved alignment between business and technology teams, and stronger confidence in the delivery of engineering led change across the portfolio.

A. Delivery & Planning

• Lead the delivery of complex, Multi workstream, or strategically significant projects.
• Shape delivery approaches and advise sponsors on delivery models.
• Oversee project plans, budgets, resource strategies, and baselines.
• Lead software delivery across multiple engineering teams or platforms.
• Ensure technical strategy, architecture decisions, and engineering plans are aligned across teams.
• Resolve high impact technical & business constraints, dependencies, and risks involving multiple systems or domains.

B. Governance, Reporting & Control

• Drive high-quality governance and proactively manage escalations.
• Lead preparation for stage gates and health checks.
• Mentor PMs on governance and risk practices.
• Provide delivery leadership in technical design forums and technical governance circles.
• Ensure cross platform environment, migration, and release alignment.

C. Stakeholder & Leadership Engagement

• Influence senior stakeholders, sponsors, and steering groups.
• Facilitate cross functional alignment across business and technical teams.
• Lead complex stakeholder negotiations.
• Act as delivery lead across architecture, engineering, security, and product disciplines.

D. Business Readiness, Testing & Operational Transition

• Ensure readiness, testing, and transition workstreams are integrated and resourced.
• Oversee readiness and UAT governance for high impact changes.
• Lead release readiness governance, ensuring engineering, QA, and platform teams are aligned for deployment.
• Oversee cross programme technical testing and integration cycles.

E. Delivery Integration & Dependency Management

• Manage interdependencies across multiple projects or platforms.
• Input into portfolio prioritisation and sequencing.
• Manage technical system interactions, integration patterns, shared platforms, and environment contention.

F. Vendor, Integrator & Partner Leadership

• Lead vendor strategy and performance across multiple suppliers and technical domains.
• Coordinate system integrators, engineering contractors, SaaS vendors, and platform partners.
• Drive commercial clarity and senior-level escalation management.

G. Continuous Improvement, Coaching & Capability Development

• Drive improvements in PMO frameworks and delivery standards.
• Coach PMs and SPMs.
• Support uplift in SDLC maturity, DevOps adoption, automation practices, and engineering delivery discipline.

 A. Core Skills

• Advanced delivery, risk, and project control expertise.
• Senior stakeholder influence and negotiation skills.
• Ability to simplify complexity.
• Strong financial oversight.
• Deep understanding of enterprise software architecture, cloud engineering, APIs, integration services, DevOps, and security patterns.
• Ability to challenge and influence technical decisions from a delivery leadership perspective.

B. Competencies

• Operates confidently in complex and ambiguous environments.
• Provides leadership across delivery teams.
• Strategic thinking with long-term orientation.
• Coaches and uplifts capability.
• Able to lead multi-team technical delivery environments.

C. Knowledge Areas

• Project, programme, and portfolio governance.
• Resource and capacity planning.
• Benefits management.
• Advanced understanding of environment strategy, release automation, CI/CD pipelines, and platform engineering practices.
• Familiarity with enterprise-scale architecture and technical governance frameworks.

• 7–10+ years’ experience delivering complex projects within structured PMO/programme environments.
• Proven record leading multi‑team delivery and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Extensive governance, reporting, and assurance experience.
• Professional PM certifications strongly preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 and delivery tools.
• Significant experience delivering software platforms, cloud transformations, integrations, APIs, or multisystem migrations.
• Experience coordinating distributed engineering teams and resolving complex technical dependencies.
• Experience overseeing multi-vendor engineering ecosystems and system integrators.

Uniphar Background

Uniphar Group is a rapidly expanding diversified healthcare services business with a global footprint and a proud heritage in Ireland.  Since Uniphar became a publicly listed company in 2019, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, which continue to strengthen Uniphar’s international reach. With a workforce of more than 3,000 spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and medtech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines and treatments around the world.

Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world’s best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Uniphar Supply Chain & Retail, Uniphar Medtech and Uniphar Pharma

Please note that Uniphar is an equal-opportunity employer; we do not discriminate and welcome all responses. 

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