POS Programme Director

POS / EPOS Implementation Programme Lead

Location: Dublin
Contract: Initial 6-9 months, with the wider programme expected to run longer term
Working Pattern: On site in Dublin initially
Rate: Up to 1000 per day

Overview

We are recruiting for a POS / EPOS Implementation Programme Lead to support a major retail transformation programme in Dublin.

The client is looking for someone with strong POS / EPOS implementation experience from a retail background.

This is a senior delivery role requiring strong governance, stakeholder management, technical understanding and the ability to operate in a complex retail environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale POS / EPOS implementation activity across a retail environment.
• Manage delivery across manual POS and digital POS systems.
• Work closely with technical teams, architects, vendors and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.
• Challenge technical teams and suppliers where required, ensuring decisions are aligned to the business outcome.
• Manage senior stakeholders, including C-suite sponsors and business leadership.
• Own programme governance, delivery plans, milestones, risks, issues and dependencies.
• Manage vendors, internal delivery teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support budget tracking, financial governance and supplier management.
• Drive delivery across complex, fast-paced implementation environments.
• Ensure business change, store readiness and operational adoption are properly managed.

Required Experience

• Proven experience leading POS / EPOS implementation programmes.
• Strong retail background, ideally within a multi-site store environment.
• Experience across both manual POS and digital POS systems.
• Strong understanding of retail systems, store technology, payments, checkout, tills or self-checkout.
• Ability to challenge technical teams, vendors and architects without needing to be hands-on technically.
• Experience managing C-suite stakeholders and senior business sponsors.
• Strong budget ownership and financial governance experience.
• Track record delivering major change and technical transformation programmes.
• Experience managing vendors, internal delivery teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong governance, risk management, dependency management and delivery control.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous retail transformation environment.