Project Manager Office of the CEO

We are Hiring!

We have an exciting new opportunity at Scope for a Project Manager - Office of the CEOto join our team!

We are looking for people who can connect their own personal vision and values into some of what we do at Scope.

Our vision as a company is to become a leading force in Eyecare with people at our core.

Please read below the full job description for the role and if this is something that you would be interested in please click apply and a member of the Scope team will be in touch regarding your application.

Project Manager - Office of the CEO

The Project Manager Office of the CEO is a trusted partner to the CEO providing the strategic operational and project management capacity required to drive execution of Scopes most important initiatives. The role sits at the centre of the business working across the leadership team to translate Scopes strategic framework our Drivers of our Future into clear well-run plans that deliver measurable results.

The Project Manager leads the delivery of high-priority cross-functional programmes on behalf of the CEO prepares the CEO for internal and external engagements coordinates the leadership operating rhythm and ensures Scopes goals as well as the CEO Goals are tracked reported and acted on with pace and discipline.

This is a career-defining opportunity for a commercially curious delivery-minded operator to work alongside the CEO during a period of ambitious growth shaping how a scaling international business executes on its strategy across Ireland the UK the US.

This role is based in Ireland (with travel across Ireland UK and international markets approx. 25%)

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & CEO Support

Act as a thought partner to the CEO helping shape structure and sequence strategic priorities across the business.

Support the execution of the CEOs strategic agenda including the cascade of annual goals across functions and the translation of strategy into operational plans.

Prepare high-quality briefings papers dashboards and presentations for CEO meetings with the leadership team Board investors customers and external partners.

Coordinate communication flows in and out of the CEOs office ensuring information is timely accurate and actionable.

Strategic Project & Programme Delivery

Lead delivery of cross-functional strategic projects on behalf of the CEO spanning commercial growth brand performance innovation and launch execution customer experience digital and technology people and culture sustainability and operational excellence.

Develop and maintain integrated project plans schedules dependency maps risk registers and progress dashboards for the CEOs priority portfolio.

Work with project owners across the business to ensure milestones are met issues are escalated early and delivery happens on time on scope and on budget.

Drive the delivery disciplines stand-ups steering meetings milestone reviews decision logs that turn ambitious plans into results.

Business Performance Planning & Governance

Support the CEO in tracking performance against strategic goals surfacing risks opportunities and insights across commercial financial operational and people metrics.

Coordinate the leadership operating rhythm SLB meetings quarterly business reviews Board updates and annual planning cycles including agendas inputs outputs and follow-through.

Own the tracking of cascading goals and cross-functional deliverables that flow from the companys strategic framework into departmental plans.

Support the annual planning process including 3-year plan development budget coordination inputs and strategic goal setting for the year ahead.

Stakeholder Engagement & Cross-Functional Leadership

Serve as a central liaison between the CEO and Scopes leadership team across Commercial Marketing Medical QARA Operations R&D People & Culture Supply Chain Finance and the newly established technology and innovation functions.

Build strong trust-based relationships across the business and across geographies Ireland UK US to anticipate needs align priorities and unblock delivery.

Manage relationships with external partners where relevant consultants advisors agencies and strategic partners.

Influence without authority holding senior stakeholders to commitments and keeping cross-functional teams aligned around shared outcomes.

Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

Streamline workflows processes and ways of working to maximise the CEOs effectiveness and remove friction from cross-functional execution.

Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort increase automation and improve how the business runs partnering with finance operations and technology teams to implement.

Support organisational planning activities including scenario modelling resource planning and the coordination of project core teams.

Champion a culture of disciplined delivery clear accountability and continuous improvement across every project touched by the Office of the CEO.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification in a relevant discipline (business engineering sciences technology or equivalent) is required.
• Recognised project or programme management qualification (PMP PRINCE2 Agile/Scrum or equivalent) is required.
• Additional qualification in Lean Six Sigma continuous improvement or change management is desirable.

Experience

• 5 years of experience in project or programme management strategy consulting chief-of-staff roles or senior business support with a proven track record of delivering complex multi-stakeholder initiatives in a fast-paced environment is required.
• Demonstrated success leading cross-functional projects to plan on budget and to strict deadlines. Required.
• Experience supporting or working directly with a CEO senior leadership team or Board is strongly desirable.
• Experience in consumer health medtech pharmaceuticals FMCG or another regulated international commercial environment is desirable.
• Exposure to strategic topics such as commercial growth planning brand performance innovation pipelines go-to-market execution digital transformation sustainability or organisational change is desirable.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong project management discipline scoping planning dependency management risk budget and stakeholder management.
• Strong analytical structuring and simplification skills able to turn complexity into clear plans crisp communication and confident decisions.
• Commercial literacy able to read a P&L engage with sales marketing finance and operations leaders in their own language and connect activity to outcomes.
• Working fluency with modern digital tools dashboards and project management platforms; curiosity about how AI automation and data can be used to improve execution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication including confident preparation of executive and Board-level materials.
• Strong influencing skills able to lead without authority build trust quickly with senior stakeholders and drive accountability across teams.
• Proficient across Microsoft 365 (Excel Word PowerPoint) Adobe Suite and mainstream project management tools (e.g. Asana Jira Monday MS Project).

Personal Attributes

• High degree of professionalism confidentiality and sound judgement essential given the seniority of stakeholders and the sensitivity of the work.
• Highly organised detail-oriented and reliable with a strong bias for action and a high bar for quality.
• Independent proactive and able to anticipate needs and operate with a high level of ownership.
• Genuinely curious about business customers people and how great organisations execute.
• Energised by working at pace in a scaling ambitious business; comfortable with ambiguity and bringing structure where none exists.
• Team player who lifts those around them and makes cross-functional delivery easier for everyone.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly within Ireland UK and internationally (approx. 25%).

Scope provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

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