PMO Lead

Leidos; Whiteley; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

33 days Annual Leave

Flexible benefits

Flexi-Time Working

Job summary

Leidos in Whiteley, Hampshire, seeks a PMO Lead to drive delivery excellence in a complex aviation programme. You will lead the PMO, govern delivery, manage risk, and report performance to programme leadership, customers, and partners.

You will coach project managers, build governance frameworks, and ensure alignment with contractual objectives while delivering across multiple workstreams. Hybrid role with SC clearance required.

Qualifications

• Experience leading PMO in complex programmes or projects.
• Strong governance, planning, reporting, risk management, and change control.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and priorities.
• Proven leadership: mentoring, coaching, or developing project teams.
• Commercial awareness and ability to operate within contractual frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead and continuously improve the PMO function with governance, planning, reporting, risk management, change control, and delivery oversight.
• Coach and support a team of Project Managers delivering across multiple work packages.
• Maintain high-quality programme reporting, dashboards, and insights for decision-making.
• Ensure programme controls and governance frameworks align with customer and contractual requirements.
• Support financial, schedule, and performance management across the programme.
• Build strong relationships with customers, partners, suppliers and internal teams.
• Drive data quality and continuous improvement across delivery practices.
• Foster an inclusive, high-performing environment for the team.

Skills

PMO leadership

Governance & reporting

Stakeholder management

Team coaching

Commercial awareness

Job description

PMO Lead

Location: This is a Hybrid working role. Whiteley, Hampshire

Clearance Required: This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance.

Drive Delivery Excellence on a Complex Aviation Programme

At Leidos, we're delivering innovative solutions that support critical aviation capabilities. We are looking for a PMO Manager to lead the Programme Management Office (PMO) within a major, complex systems integration programme.

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in shaping programme delivery, governance, and performance across multiple workstreams. You'll lead a team of Project Managers and work closely with programme leadership, customers, and partners to ensure successful delivery against business, technical, and contractual objectives.

We're interested in hearing from candidates with experience in complex programme environments. While systems integration experience is valuable, we recognise that transferable skills gained in defence, transportation, technology, engineering, infrastructure, or other highly regulated sectors can be equally relevant.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and continuously improve the PMO function, ensuring effective governance, planning, reporting, risk management, change control, and delivery oversight.
• Manage, coach, and support a team of Project Managers, helping them deliver successful outcomes across multiple work packages.
• Maintain high-quality programme reporting, dashboards, and insights to support decision-making and provide transparency for stakeholders.
• Ensure programme controls, processes, and governance frameworks are fit for purpose and aligned with customer and contractual requirements.
• Support financial, schedule, and performance management activities across the programme.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and internal teams.
• Drive consistency, data quality, and continuous improvement across programme delivery practices.
• Help create an inclusive, supportive, and high-performing environment where individuals and teams can thrive.

What We're Looking For

• Experience leading PMO activities within complex programmes or projects.
• A strong understanding of programme governance, planning, reporting, risk management, and change control.
• Experience working in complex delivery environments with multiple stakeholders, dependencies, and priorities.
• Strong leadership skills, with experience managing, mentoring, or developing project or programme teams.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of working within contractual frameworks.
• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, and a structured approach to problem-solving.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage confidently at all levels.
• Experience using PMO tools, methodologies, and reporting systems to support delivery success.

Desirable Experience

• Experience within systems integration, aviation, defence, transportation, or other complex regulated industries.
• Knowledge of customer-supplier delivery models and contract-driven environments.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation, technology, or engineering programmes.
• Professional qualifications such as APM, PRINCE2, MSP, PMI, or equivalent.
• Experience implementing PMO best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Familiarity with earned value management, integrated schedules, or portfolio reporting.

This role is based in Whiteley, Hampshire, with opportunities for hybrid working. Appointment is subject to the successful candidate holding, or being eligible to obtain, UK Security Check (SC) clearance.

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

Our reward scheme includes

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme and much more!)
• Flexi-Time Working

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & Europe - we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration:

Having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People:

Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Pay Range:

£58,400.00-£74,900.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.