Head of Integrated Planning - Trials, Tests & Evaluation (TT&E)

AWE Plc; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AWE Plc recherche un Head of Integrated Planning pour jouer un rôle clé dans la planification stratégique et la gestion opérationnelle au sein de l'organisation. Ce poste de direction est essentiel pour assurer l'alignement entre les objectifs stratégiques et l'exécution opérationnelle, en favorisant une prise de décision éclairée et en intégrant les activités de planification à travers l'organisation.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Performance related bonus

Flexible benefit scheme

Qualifications

• Expérience en planification opérationnelle et transformation des entreprises.
• Compétences en gestion du risque et des budgets.
• Aptitude à diriger une équipe performante dans un environnement changeant.

Responsibilities

• Fournir la gestion d'un calendrier intégré pour une unité commerciale.
• Soutenir le directeur général avec une expertise dans le processus de planification d'entreprise.
• Diriger la transformation de l'unité commerciale pendant des périodes de changement.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Education

Degree educated or similar attainment level

Tools

ERP Systems

SAP

Job description

R27528 Head of Integrated Planning - Trials, Tests & Evaluation (TT&E)

Closing date: 13 July 2025

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package: Competitive leadership salary depending on experience, plus various other benefits including a generous holiday allowance, performance related bonus & an additional flexible benefit scheme.

Working pattern: Primarily an onsite position but there is the scope to work from home dependent on business needs. AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight, applications from candidates wishing to work full or part-time will be considered.

Ready to play your part?

At AWE, it's not just a job, it's far more than that. Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe. Could this role be the opportunity for you to play your part?

Reporting directly to the General Manager for Trials, Tests & Evaluation (TT&E), the Head of Integrated Planning is a strategic leadership position responsible for ensuring alignment between strategic objectives and requirements and operational execution through a multi-tiered planning approach aligned to senior engagement, manufacturing alignment and control, and manufacturing execution. You will lead the engagement and integration of the TT&E master plan with the enterprise level Strategic Warhead Enterprise Plan (SWEP) through collaboration with several delivery areas infrastructure, engineering planning and across all the business units.

You will work as part of the TT&E senior leadership team as well as across Business Units with the wider operational planning community of practice to support the implementation and continuous improvement of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Master Production Scheduling (MPS) across the Business Units.

This includes:

• Driving senior-level engagement to ensure planning decisions are informed, aligned, and strategically sound.

• Coordinating cross-functional planning activities, integrating demand, supply, and capacity planning to optimise manufacturing performance.

• Ensuring seamless alignment and control across manufacturing operations, from strategic long-range planning to day-to-day execution.

• Championing data-driven decision-making, fostering transparency and agility across the planning cycle.

This is a pivotal leadership role that bridges strategic intent with operational delivery-ensuring the Business Unit remains responsive, efficient, and future-ready.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide the overall integrated master schedule control for a Business Unit, aggregating and managing demand over the short, medium and long term, which incorporates balancing multiple requirements (e.g. maintenance, capital works) to ensure we deliver to customer requirements.

• Direct support for the General Manager including providing subject matter expertise into the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, feeding from the operational planning team, and integrating with programmes and the Strategic Warhead Enterprise Plan. You will be overseeing the strategic long-term view of the plan through to implementation.

• Lead the transformation of the business unit as part of the wider AWE transformation and change management.

• Provision of Management Information and reporting to support Business Unit decision making and upward reporting of KPIs and delivery into the AWE Executive and MOD customer governance. Key interface to ePMO, Warhead PMO, Infrastructure delivery Unit and Transformation programmes for overarching Business Unit capacity planning/ prioritisation/ deconfliction/ integration.

• Overseeing and driving the financial performance of the Business Unit on behalf of the General Manager, including the analysis of information from the product, demand, supply and finance reviews to generate financial forecasts and the identification of efficiencies and risks.

• Monitor and manage risk, assumptions and issues ensuring that appropriate mitigations are delivered at pace to support delivery.

Who are we looking for?

Requirements

• Degree educated or similar attainment level demonstrated through experience.

• Extensive project or operational planning experience. Experience leading business transformation and change management within a matrix environment.

• Overseeing and managing budgets and the ability to operate within a changing financial environment.

• Overseeing and communicating risk management at a strategic level.

• Provide inspirational leadership to a team with diverse skills and experience and build and lead a high performing team through a period of change.

• Reporting - collating management information and translating it into insights at a strategic level to influence across stakeholders and the organisation.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills; building and maintaining strong and positive relationships at all levels, including with senior leaders, customers, suppliers, and other external partners.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

• Experience of working in a TT&E environment.

• Broad understanding of a manufacturing and/or regulatory environment.

• Deep knowledge in planning processes: demand planning, supply planning, manufacturing flow, material planning and S&OP process.

• Manage programmes, schedules and plans, and positively respond to changing circumstances with agility and resilience.

• Project and programme planning qualifications/ a member of a professional body.

• Knowledge of Project Management (tools techniques, practices) and knowledge of commercial and finance.

• Proven experience in implementing and continuous improvement of sales and operations planning processes.

• Management and interpretation of operational performance information.

• Knowledge and experience of enterprise ERP/ MRP systems and SAP.

• Strong analytical skills, ensuring that that decisions are made by guided problem solving, and are informed by policies, procedures and business plan.

You see yourself as having a strategic and proactive approach to managing obstacles. We welcome a visionary leader with a 'growth mindset' to push the boundaries of what's possible. You'll be joining us at a pivotal time, with the chance to shape the future direction of AWE through exciting technical projects.

Additional requirements:

• Willingness to undertake UK and overseas travel.

• Ability to obtain and maintain necessary security clearance.

• DV clearance is required for this position.