Defence Programme Manager — Mission Rehearsal Delivery

QinetiQ; West of England; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 74,000; Full time

Job summary

QinetiQ is seeking a Programme Manager to lead the Mission Rehearsal programme from Bristol or Boscombe Down. You will shape the programme, manage planning, budgets, risk, stakeholders, and contracts, driving delivery against milestones.

The role requires 37 hours per week, eligibility for SC clearance, and experience running complex defence projects in collaboration with Finance, Commercial, and Technical teams to realise programme benefits.

Qualifications

• 10 years working within project teams leading programmes.
• Detailed knowledge of the full project lifecycle and programme management.
• Experience using project management tools such as Microsoft Project and SAP.

Responsibilities

• Ensure resource capacity planning is in place, manage and co-ordinate dependencies to ensure issues are resolved early and ensure the programme benefits are identified and fully understood
• Working closely with the Portfolio Office to ensure programme controls are in place and accurate and timely performance information is available
• Proactively, identify and assess risks at programme level, plan and implement responses to those risks and respond to issues that affect the programme
• Evaluate the performance of projects within the programme to understand the status of the RAG using performance reporting
• Engage, influence and collaborate with all stakeholders (internal, including Finance, Commercial, People, Enterprise Services, Portfolio Office, Technical & Supply Chain and external), ensuring on-going commitment
• Lead pre and post contract discussions to shape project scope and collaboratively work with the Commercial function to understand QinetiQ’s contractual rights and obligations

Skills

Programme management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

APM PMQ

PMI PgMP

AIPM CPPD

Tools

Microsoft Project

SAP

Job description

QinetiQ is seeking a Programme Manager to lead the Mission Rehearsal programme from Bristol or Boscombe Down. You will shape the programme, manage planning, budgets, risk, stakeholders, and contracts, driving delivery against milestones.

The role requires 37 hours per week, eligibility for SC clearance, and experience running complex defence projects in collaboration with Finance, Commercial, and Technical teams to realise programme benefits.