Portfolio Delivery Team Lead

MBDA; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus: Up to £2,500

Pension: up to 14%

Overtime: paid overtime

Flexi Leave: up to 15 days

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 wks

Site facilities: subsidised meals & 0

Job summary

MBDA in Stevenage is seeking a Delivery Lead responsible for managing Portfolio engineering activities across the MBDA Complex Weapons Portfolio, including risk, obsolescence and engineering commonality. The role requires broad technical knowledge and strong influencing skills; it suits someone seeking a balance of technical understanding and business delivery.

You will work in a hybrid model (2-3 days on-site) with opportunities to shape delivery, improve Commonality, Modularity and Reuse,

Qualifications

• Significant experience in an engineering discipline with broad technical knowledge across product lifecycle.
• Ability to influence and challenge senior management including MOD/MBDA where required.
• Flexible mindset to tackle design challenges with innovative solutions.
• Ability to understand complex technical problems with uncertainty and manage multiple projects.
• Concise in summarising problems and leading teams to resolve them.
• Proactive in prioritising and empowering teams to deliver.

Responsibilities

• The Delivery Lead manages Portfolio engineering activities for MBDA Complex Weapons Portfolio, including risks, obsolescence and engineering commonality.
• Influence and lead across internal teams and senior stakeholders to ensure delivery plans are realistic and aligned with business needs.
• Develop and implement new ways of working, driving improvements in Commonality, Modularity and Reuse while mitigating risks.
• Review benefits and ensure realism from an engineering perspective in project portfolios.
• Coordinate with Functions, Equipment Teams and Centres of Excellence to manage dependencies and risk escalation.

Skills

Engineering discipline

Lifecycle knowledge

Stakeholder influence

Problem solving

Prioritisation

Leadership

Job description

Stevenage

Portfolio Delivery Team Lead
Salary: Up to £55,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave – enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
• Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

The opportunity:

The Delivery Lead is responsible for the management of Portfolio engineering activities associated with the delivery of the MBDA Complex Weapons Portfolio, including management of technical risks, obsolescence and engineering commonality.

The role demands a motivated individual with broad technical knowledge, and good influencing skills. It would suit someone who is looking for a balance of technical understanding and broader business delivery aspects. The successful individual will get exposure to wider Portfolio factors such as financial efficiencies, operational performance, exportability and Freedom of Action to the UK MoD.

• A chance to use the knowledge and experience you have gained to help steer and shape the delivery of the MBDA UK portfolio of products.
• The opportunity to develop and implement new ways of working, building on past successes but with the freedom to innovate.
• Work with projects to improve the efficiency of Commonality, Modularity & Reuse and reduce hardships.
• Review predicted and measured benefits to ensure realism from an engineering point of view.
• Work with internal teams to ensure that programme plans for dependencies exist.
• Act as the point of contact between Functions, Equipment Teams, Centres of Excellence and the Portfolio as risks or issues arise.
• Ensure solutions for portfolio obsolescence removal do not affect the dependencies established.

What we're looking for from you:

• Significant experience in an engineering discipline, with a good understanding of product lifecycle including the design and development process for electro‑mechanical equipment.
• The ability to work with, influence, and challenge where required including senior MOD and MBDA management.
• A flexible mind‑set, able to tackle problems and develop genuinely innovative solutions for design challenges.
• Ability to understand sophisticated technical problems, often with a high degree of uncertainty, complexity and inconsistency.
• Effectively manage your priorities when presented with issues from multiple projects.
• You are able to concisely summarise multi‑faced problems and influence, lead and empower teams positively.

We respect new perspectives and experiences, and we value our collaborative ways of working. We are committed to growing and supporting diversity in our workforce and ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity to reach their potential. MBDA is proud of our employee‑led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity and more.

We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process. We also welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements.