Project Management Office (PMO)

About Phibro Animal Health Corporation

Phibro Animal Health Corporation is a publicly listed multinational with a longstanding presence in animal health and nutrition, producing and marketing medicated feed additives, vaccines, nutritional specialty products, and mineral nutrition. The company is committed to collaborating with livestock producers, farmers, veterinarians, and pet owners to provide solutions that sustain and enhance animal health. Besides animal health, Phibro is diversified into ethanol performance products, microbials for plants, home, and industrial uses, as well as specialty chemicals for industrial markets. The company generates revenues exceeding $1 billion and employs over 2,300 individuals worldwide.

Phibro values its people as its greatest resource and aims to cultivate a diverse workforce where employees feel empowered to share their ideas and capabilities freely, enabling them to achieve their best.

Applicants who may not meet all listed qualifications are still encouraged to apply as they could be a suitable fit for this or other roles within the company.

Position Overview

The PMO role is a key element of the Engineering department at the Sligo, Ireland location. This position supports the execution of long-term projects by implementing structured governance, integrated scheduling, portfolio coordination, and reporting. The PMO ensures projects at the site are consistently planned, prioritized, monitored, and delivered, providing transparent visibility into milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, and impacts on manufacturing operations.

This role collaborates internally and externally to maintain cohesive project schedules, coordinate governance activities, assist in prioritization decisions, and furnish timely reports, thus facilitating effective decision-making across the site's project portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, update, and oversee integrated project timelines for assigned site projects and workstreams.
• Collaborate with project teams to define critical milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, actions, and key decision points.
• Maintain a unified site project schedule aligned with project work, site priorities, resource availability, and manufacturing limitations.
• Coordinate with business planners and stakeholders to minimize disruptions to commercial planning and operations.
• Monitor and communicate progress on milestones, project readiness, schedule modifications, and governance decisions.
• Prepare governance materials including dashboards, status updates, action logs, risk and issue registers, and decision documentation for leadership.
• Organize and facilitate project governance meetings, managing agendas, outputs, follow-ups, escalations, and action tracking.
• Support project prioritization through data analysis on schedule impacts, resource constraints, risk exposure, and interdependencies.
• Ensure uniformity in project management tools, templates, reporting standards, and PMO practices across site projects.

Required Competencies

• Solid understanding of PMO best practices including governance, integrated scheduling, project controls, portfolio reporting, and milestone tracking.
• Capability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders under tight deadlines and competing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail with experience maintaining project schedules, dashboards, risk and issue logs, action tracking, and decision records.
• Effective reporting and communication skills able to synthesize complex project data into clear leadership updates.
• Excellent organizational, planning, time management, and prioritization abilities to ensure follow-up and completion of actions.
• Problem-solving aptitude especially in identifying schedule risks, resource bottlenecks, and escalation needs.
• Proficiency in stakeholder management, facilitation, and influencing in a matrixed project environment.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Collaborative mindset able to influence without direct authority.

Educational and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Engineering, Project Management, Science, Operations, or a related discipline.
• A minimum of five years’ relevant experience in a PMO, project coordination, project controls, planning, engineering, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or regulated site settings.
• Previous experience supporting long-term and capital projects, managing site project portfolios, integrated scheduling, governance processes, project reporting, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
• Knowledgeable about project management principles, scheduling methods, governance, controls, reporting tools, risk and issue management, and manufacturing site operational requirements.

Work Conditions and Equal Opportunity

The position is based in Sligo, Ireland, with a Monday to Friday work schedule totaling 40 hours per week. Phibro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and ensures fair consideration for candidates regardless of race, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected status.

Business Unit: Animal Health & Mineral Nutrition
Division: Animal Health & Nutrition
Department: Engineering
Location: Ireland - Sligo