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Director of Consulting - Delivery Leadership

Posted 1 hour 15 minutes ago by Jobtailor

Permanent

Full Time

Other

Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Job Description

Responsibilities

Accountability for people leadership standards across ABS Consulting and Managed Services
Set the benchmark for consulting professionalism, behavior, and leadership maturity across ABS
Establish clear performance expectations and ensure they are consistently applied
Create a safe but disciplined environment where under performance and capability gaps are surfaced early and addressed
Own consulting and delivery career pathways, progression criteria, and leadership capability models
Actively develop Programme Managers, Delivery Leads, and senior consultants into stronger leaders
Ensure teams operate with clarity of role and responsibility and remain within defined professional boundaries
Build customer confidence through leadership presence, consistency, and clear decision making
Act as a senior escalation point for complex or sensitive delivery situations, working in partnership with the CDO
Support programme boards, governance forums, and delivery recovery situations where leadership intervention is required
Ensure senior delivery roles are filled by the most appropriate and capable leaders for the complexity of the work
Actively support the organisation wide rollout of AI enabled delivery practices developed by Master Practitioners
Maintain senior oversight of strategic and high risk engagements from a people, leadership, and standards perspective
Drive continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen consulting maturity, delivery quality, and organisational resilience
Contribute to leadership planning, organisational design, and scale readiness initiatives

Requirements

Senior leadership experience within a professional services or consulting organisation operating at meaningful scale
Proven experience leading large, multi disciplinary delivery teams
A track record of owning people performance, leadership development, and career frameworks
Strong executive level customer presence and stakeholder credibility
Experience operating in complex delivery environments with high customer expectations
Commercial understanding of fixed price models
Specific experience with Microsoft Dynamics, Power Platform, or Azure is not required
Naturally extroverted, visible, and energised by engaging with people
Comfortable spending significant time with teams and customers
Confident challenging poor practice and enforcing standards
Calm, credible, and decisive under pressure
Pragmatic, resilient, and improvement oriented
Emotionally intelligent, with strong leadership presence
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and organisational change