Programme Manager - CCIS

Job Title:     Programme Manager

Location:     Portsmouth

Package:     Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type:   Full-time / Permanent

Role ID:       SF17614

 

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Programme Manager where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

 

The Role

As a Programme Manager, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary. You would join the Systems Integration and Assurance portfolio, which sits, within the Defence Digital Business Stream. You will be responsible for the successful delivery of a range of customer-funded projects, providing oversight of project delivery by Project Managers within the team. Key focus areas for this role will be the development of the business steam strategic plan, business winning, and delivery leadership.

 

Day-to-day you will:

• Own and develop the business stream strategic plan
• Develop and maintain positive engagement and relationships with customers, partners and suppliers.
• Maintain forecasts (both financial and resource demand signal) for sales and delivery which reflects expectations for the work

• Apply governance and assurance requirements (including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate) for sales and delivery work

 

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week based out of our Portsmouth offices, with adaptive working options.

 

Essential experience of the Programme Manager

• Demonstrable experience leading and delivering complex programmes within the defence space
• Experience managing multiple external suppliers
• Experience of line management or team leadership

 

Qualifications for the Programme Manager
We value difference and we do not have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn, then we would like to hear from you.

  

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve Security Clearance as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk

 

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

 

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.