DV Cleared Subcontract Delivery Lead

Leidos; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

33 days leave

Flexible benefits

Flexi-time

Job summary

Leidos in Farnborough is seeking a proactive Subcontract Project Manager to coordinate subcontractor delivery for a complex UK defence programme. You will manage plans, dependencies and supplier performance, engaging commercial, technical and operational teams to ensure milestones are met and outcomes delivered.

The role requires strong project controls, risk management and clear, decision-ready reporting across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Experience managing projects, suppliers or subcontractor delivery within complex IT, managed service, defence, government or highly regulated environments.
• Strong project controls capability, including planning, milestone management, RAID management, dependency tracking, action management and reporting.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary delivery teams across commercial, technical, service, transition, security and supplier functions.
• Ability to interpret delivery commitments, identify emerging risk, manage competing priorities and drive practical resolution of blockers.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to engage senior programme stakeholders, suppliers and delivery teams.
• High attention to detail, strong organisational discipline and the ability to produce clear, accurate and decision-ready reporting.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day planning, coordination and delivery of subcontractor activities across assigned programme workstreams, ensuring scope, milestones, dependencies and deliverables are clearly understood and actively managed.
• Maintain integrated subcontractor delivery plans, action logs, RAID records, dependency registers and reporting inputs, ensuring accurate visibility of progress, blockers, risks and upcoming decisions.
• Coordinate supplier inputs into transition, mobilisation, service readiness, acceptance, technical refresh, decommissioning and programme governance activities.
• Support the management of subcontractor deliverables, evidence packs, implementation products, reporting submissions and acceptance artefacts, ensuring they are produced to the required quality and timescales.
• Work with Commercial and Subcontracts colleagues to identify scope boundaries, change impacts, contractual dependencies, supplier obligations and any commercial risks requiring escalation.
• Drive timely resolution of subcontractor risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating where required through programme governance and ensuring mitigation actions are owned, tracked and closed.
• Facilitate effective working relationships between Leidos, subcontractors, suppliers and internal delivery teams, promoting clear communication, collaborative behaviours and disciplined follow-through on commitments.
• Support programme reporting, delivery reviews and governance forums by providing concise updates on subcontractor progress, forecast activity, key decisions, risks, issues and required interventions.

Skills

Project management

Supplier management

Stakeholder management

RAID management

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Cross-functional team

Tools

PRINCE2

APM

MSP

AgilePM

Scrum

Job description

Leidos in Farnborough is seeking a proactive Subcontract Project Manager to coordinate subcontractor delivery for a complex UK defence programme. You will manage plans, dependencies and supplier performance, engaging commercial, technical and operational teams to ensure milestones are met and outcomes delivered.

The role requires strong project controls, risk management and clear, decision-ready reporting across cross-functional teams.