Graduate Project Manager

Overview

Graduate Project Manager role at DCC Vital. This role offers the opportunity to gain hands-on experience working across a range of commercial and operational initiatives within the Ireland division. The Graduate Project Manager will be exposed to various aspects of project management, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional collaboration, with development opportunities and exposure to senior management. This role supports a future path in Commercial, Operations, Strategy, or Project Management within the organisation.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

• Manage the planning, execution, closing and monitoring of projects, ensuring they are completed on time, in scope, and to budget.
• Prepare and maintain project management documentation, including business appraisals, business planning, risk registers, and status reports.
• Lead project-level communications with delivery teams and project sponsors. Facilitate workshops, stand-up meetings and demonstrations to key stakeholders.
• Actively contribute to project delivery as part of the implementation/delivery team.

Key Projects / Initiatives

• Commercial Excellence: Support the implementation of initiatives aimed at improving commercial performance and efficiency within the Ireland Division. Collaborate with Commercial Directors, Sales Managers and relevant IT, Data and Support functions to implement improvements in Contracts Management, Operations Reporting, Pricing Analysis, Sales Force Effectiveness, Systems Implementation and Stock Optimization. Track progress vs plan, quantify net margin impact and monitor change acceptance.
• Strategic Initiatives: Assist the Strategic Initiatives Manager and Business Development Director with executing Strategic Initiatives relating to the Key Agencies for the Ireland Distribution business. Provide support for a bolt-on acquisition integration project, working with various commercial, operations, finance, IT, HR and Quality workstreams. Complete detailed cost to serve financial analysis and process mapping to identify operational efficiencies in one business unit.
• Digital Transformation Initiatives: Project manage the delivery and integration of a 3rd Party order and invoice management system within Customer Services and Finance (Accounts Payables) teams to automate sales order and supplier invoice processing.

Experience & Profile

• Minimum 2:1 grade university degree. Applications from all disciplines will be reviewed; emphasis in Commerce, Economics, Business Information Systems, and/or Finance is preferred.
• Fluent English speaker with strong communication skills.
• Interest in a career in commercial and/or operations disciplines.
• High learning agility, adaptability and problem-solving ability.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across functional areas to deliver results.
• Proficiency with applications including SAP, Business Intelligence Applications, Microsoft Excel, Power Automate, CoPilot, etc.
• A strong understanding and relevant experience in the healthcare industry is preferred.

Other Information

• The company operates a hybrid work policy. The successful candidate will be expected to be present in the office 3/5 days each week, with Monday and Wednesday as core team days.
• The company is an equal opportunity employer and operates quality and EHS management systems across all sites. Employees must comply with requirements relevant to the role.

Please note that, as stated in your contract of employment, you may be required to carry out other reasonable duties from time to time. All DCC Vital staff work within quality management systems and the above will apply to the product portfolio. DCC Vital is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Seniority level

• Internship

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Project Management and Information Technology

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care

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