Project and Programme Delivery Recruitment
Placing the IT project and programme leaders who keep complex technology initiatives on track across Irish businesses.
What These Roles Mean for Irish Business
Technology projects fail more often than they should, and rarely because the technology is wrong. They fail because the people managing the delivery are not the right fit for the complexity, the culture, or the pace of the organisation.
Strong IT project and programme managers are in consistent demand across Irish businesses. Whether you are running an ERP implementation, a cloud migration, a digital transformation programme, or a regulatory change initiative, you need someone who has done it before and can do it in your context.
Finding that person in the Irish market, quickly, and at the right level, is what we do.
What We Do
We place IT project and programme leaders across Irish organisations from companies managing a single critical project to businesses running portfolios of concurrent technology change.
We focus on people who can deliver in the real world, not just manage a plan. The best candidates in this space know how to manage stakeholders, navigate complexity, make decisions under pressure, and keep sponsors confident while the hard work gets done.
We place both permanent hires and senior interim or contract project leaders, depending on what the situation requires.
Roles We Place
- Programme Director
- Programme Manager
- IT Project Manager
- Senior Project Manager
- PMO Lead
- Delivery Manager
- Portfolio Manager
- Agile Delivery Lead
How We Work
Project and programme delivery roles often come with a start date in mind. We understand that. We move quickly, but we do not sacrifice quality for speed.
We take time upfront to understand the programme or project you need delivered, the methodology you work to, the stakeholder environment, and the leadership style that will work in your business.
That clarity means we can put forward candidates who are genuinely ready to hit the ground running rather than spending their first month figuring out the landscape.
Frequently Asked Questions
For a defined project with a clear end date, a senior contractor often makes practical sense. For ongoing programme delivery or a PMO leadership role, a permanent hire usually delivers more value over time.
We can help you think through the right structure and we place into both permanent and contract roles.
We place across all major methodologies, Agile, Waterfall, PRINCE2, SAFe, and hybrid approaches. Most experienced project leaders in the Irish market have worked across more than one, which is increasingly what businesses need.
We match on methodology fit as part of every search.
For experienced contract project managers, four weeks is achievable if the brief is clear and we move quickly together. For senior permanent hires, notice periods often mean a longer lead time.
Get in touch as soon as you know you need someone and we will be honest about what is possible in your timeframe
We have placed project and programme leaders managing everything from focused six month IT improvement projects to multi year enterprise wide transformation programmes with teams of twenty or more. We match candidate experience to programme complexity.
At the senior level, where Star Recruitment focuses, the salary picture for project and programme delivery in Ireland in 2026 breaks down broadly as follows.
A senior IT Project Manager will typically earn a permanent salary in the range of €75,000 to €100,000 plus. A Programme Manager overseeing multiple workstreams or a complex technology programme will typically attract €95,000 to €130,000 plus. A Programme Director, who owns the full delivery agenda and operates at or close to executive level, will generally earn €120,000 to €160,000 or above.
On the contractor side, senior IT Project Managers in Ireland are typically working on day rates of €450 to €800, while senior Programme Managers attract €650 to €900 per day. Programme Directors on interim appointments generally command €850 to €1,200 per day.
The figures vary considerably depending on the sector, the complexity of the technology programme, and how the organisation approaches delivery. If you are budgeting for a specific delivery hire, call us and we will take it from there.