Capital Project & Transformation Leadership Manager - Defence

PwC; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Empowered flexibility

Hybrid work model

Private medical cover

24/7 access to virtual GP

Six volunteering days a year

Job summary

PwC UK is seeking a Manager to join the Capital Projects team within Advisory, focusing on large-scale transformation programmes and capital projects across Defence and other sectors. The role involves delivering strategic capital initiatives, governance, and PMO support to ensure successful outcomes.

The Defence market is undergoing significant transformation over the next 5–10 years, and the team engages across public and private sectors to drive performance, value, and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Proactively support the management of several client relationships, while reporting to senior colleagues
• Coach, develop and lead team members
• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
• Contribute to developing your own technical expertise and that of the wider team
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your professional profile within PwC

Job description

Line of Service

Advisory

Industry/Sector

Aerospace and Defence

Specialism

Capital Projects

Management Level

Manager

Job Description & Summary

About the role:

Our Capital Project & Transformation Leadership (CPTL) team consists of a range of talented multi-disciplined professionals who have a background in delivery of large-scale transformation programmes and capital projects across multiple sectors including Aerospace, Defence, Energy, Utilities & Resources, Finance, Government & Healthcare, Infrastructure, Insurance and Asset & Wealth Management, and Transport. We support our clients in leading their people and organisations through major transformative or complex change or supporting the leadership of major capital projects and programmes.

The UK Defence sector is undergoing a major transformation over the next 5-10 years, across all branches of the armed services, Ministry of Defence and associated agencies and private sector industry, with an underlying shift towards Defence as a strategic industrial system – one that must simultaneously generate military readiness, sovereign resilience, innovation and UK economic value. We are therefore seeking to expand our CPTL team to serve this growth sector.

Our Defence team comprises of people from Programme and Project Management, Engineering, Commercial Management or Operating Model Transformation backgrounds but we’re open to other industries and experiences, and the value that can bring. Private and / or public sector Defence experience is highly valued.

Our teams help clients throughout all stages of a transformation and investment cycle:

• Strategy, Planning & Mobilisation: Helping clients define the right investments, operating models, governance structures, and delivery roadmaps to successfully launch complex transformation and capital programmes
• Delivery: Delivering complex transformation and capital programmes through effective leadership, governance, PMO, controls, and execution support to achieve sustainable outcomes
• Performance: Improving commercial outcomes, supplier performance, programme efficiency, and value realisation across major investments and transformation initiatives
• Real Asset Performance & Lifecycle Management: Supporting clients to maximise value from assets through improved planning, maintenance, operations, field service, and lifecycle optimisation.
• Review & Recovery: Providing independent challenge, assurance, recovery support, and investigations to improve confidence and outcomes across complex programmes and transformations

What your days will look like:

• Proactively support the management of several client relationships, while reporting to senior colleagues
• Coach, develop and lead team members
• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients
• Contribute to developing your own technical expertise and that of the wider team
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your professional profile within PwC

This role is for you if you have:

• Confident communicator and able to deliver compelling messages with impact to a wide variety of audiences to influence an outcome;
• Demonstrates leadership experience and a strong desire to coach and develop team members
• Demonstrates exceptional technical aptitude and analytical skills, and is able to translate complex issues to support the creation and delivery of clear and understandable client solutions;
• Demonstrates enthusiasm for embracing new technology and leading industry in progressing in new ways of working through adoption and adaption of technology such as Artificial Intelligence;
• Is passionate about delivery of capital and transformation projects and has a strong desire to succeed by learning from colleagues and creating collaborative relationships at all levels;
• Brings relevant academic, professional or equivalent practical experience with a demonstrated interest in pursuing continued learning and professional development;
• Has a strong commercial background with experience in managing contracts, supply chain management, procurement, commercial management and / or commercial and contract negotiations;
• Is open to travel, both nationally and internationally;
• If not held already, is willing to obtain appropriate required levels of security clearance.

What you’ll receive from us

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.

We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required:

Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, AI Fluency, AI-Human Collaboration, Analytical Thinking, Budgetary Management, Capital Management (CM), Capital Raising, Cash Flow Analysis, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Contingency Planning, Contract Lifecycle Management, Contractor Management, Cost Estimate Preparation, Cost Management, Cost Reduction, Creativity, Digital Tooling, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Financial Management, Financial Modeling {+ 27 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 60%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

Yes