Job Purpose
About RWS
RWS is a global leader in content, translation, and intellectual property services. With more than 60 years of experience, RWS helps the world's top brands grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language. The company combines proprietary technology with deep human expertise to deliver high-quality, compliant, and scalable solutions across industries such as life sciences, technology, finance, and legal.
About Propylon
Propylon is a company within the RWS group, focused on delivering innovative solutions that simplify complex legal workflows and connect people with the law. The Propylon team works to understand business challenges, design practical technical solutions, and solve problems while embracing change. The company has consistently been recognised as one of the "Great Places To Work" in Ireland *****, ****, ****, ****, and ****), reflecting a culture of learning, growth, and employee development.
Working at Propylon allows employees to combine the entrepreneurial, innovation-driven environment of a smaller company with the global scale, resources, and reach of RWS, contributing to RWS's mission of unlocking understanding across languages and industries.
Job Purpose
Propylon's Project Managers are responsible for defining, planning, and leading software project activity from initiation through to customer acceptance and successful handover to support operations.
In addition to project delivery responsibilities, this role will contribute to business analysis activities by working closely with clients and internal stakeholders to understand business needs, elicit and document requirements, facilitate workshops, support solution design, and ensure delivered solutions align with business objectives and user expectations.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven individual to work on multi-million-dollar, enterprise-level software implementations in a client-facing role.
Job Overview
Responsibilities:
Deliver projects to agreed scope, schedule, and budget – managing scope definition, changes, and priorities from initiation through to implementation
Lead and motivate project teams across the full project lifecycle, including both on-site and distributed team members
Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure effective execution of project deliverables
Manage stakeholder communication and alignment across client and internal teams
Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and resource allocations
Produce and maintain all required project documentation and reporting artefacts
Identify, assess,



and manage project risks and issues throughout the lifecycle
Build and maintain strong relationships with key client stakeholders
Present clear and accurate project status updates to stakeholders at all levels
Support clients during production phases, including post-implementation activities where required
Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of the Project Management Office (PMO), including processes, governance, tools, and best practices
Support the implementation of project delivery standards, reporting frameworks, and governance structures
Requirements:
3+ years' experience in a software development project management role
Experience delivering projects in a business-critical software or services environment
Degree in IT, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience
Proven track record of delivering enterprise IT projects to defined scope, schedule, and budget
Demonstrated ability to manage evolving project scope, priorities, and dependencies in dynamic environments
Experience working with cross-functional teams across business and technical functions
Strong stakeholder management experience, including engagement with client and senior stakeholders
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels in a client-facing role
Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams
Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and methodologies
Solid business acumen with the ability to align technical delivery to business objectives
Strong attention to detail and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities
Availability to travel as required
Professional project management certification (e.g. PMI, PRINCE2)
Experience performing business analysis activities, including requirements elicitation, process mapping, workshop facilitation, and stakeholder engagement across business and technical teams.
Nice to Haves:
Agile certifications (e.g. Skilled Scrum Master, SAFe, or similar)
Proficiency using project management and collaboration tools such as Jira or similar platforms
Experience working within structured governance, reporting, and delivery frameworks




Experience supporting change management initiatives and driving user adoption in enterprise environments
Experience working with Government / Civil Service or Legislative bodies
Personal Attributes:
Highly organized, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
Proactive and solution-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability
Collaborative mindset, with a willingness to share knowledge and contribute to team success
Curious and continuously learning, with an interest in technology, delivery practices, and improving ways of working
Life at RWS
Life at RWS
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If you like the idea of working with smart people who are passionate about growing the value of ideas, data and content by making sure organizations are understood, then you'll love life at RWS.
Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career.
In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us:
to partner
, putting clients fist and winning together
, to pioneer
, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage,
to progress
, aiming high and growing through actions and
to deliver
, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.
RWS embraces DEI
and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.
RWS Values
Get the 3Ps right –
Partner, Pioneer, Progress
– and we ́ll
Deliver
together as RWS.
Recruitment Agencies:
RWS Holdings PLC does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees. Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.
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