Project Manager

QinetiQ Limited; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Health Cash Plan

Private Medical Insurance and Dental

Employee discounts

Job summary

QinetiQ Limited in Portsmouth is seeking a Project Manager to lead the delivery of multiple maritime projects, partnering with MOD, Royal Navy and NATO nations to bring new capabilities into service.

You will collaborate with technical teams, MOD stakeholders and industry partners across the full lifecycle—from planning and governance to risk management and delivery—balancing priorities to achieve successful outcomes for customers and end users.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and delivering projects, programmes, portfolios, or initiatives within a complex environment.
• Strong leadership with ability to influence and align teams toward objectives.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across customers, partners and internal teams.
• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution to manage priorities and expectations.
• Experience contributing to bids, proposals, delivery planning, risk management and costing.
• Collaborative team player with integrity and inclusive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain relationships with customers, partners and suppliers.
• Deliver projects against objectives for satisfaction, time, cost, quality, revenue and cash.
• Ensure safe, secure and compliant delivery with governance and lifecycle processes.
• Lead and support project teams, manage performance and prioritisation.
• Maintain accurate forecasts for finance, resources, sales and delivery.
• Manage project data in SAP CRM with up-to-date records and metrics.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Delivery management

Business development support

Tools

SAP CRM

Job description

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Package: £50,400– £56,000 ( salary dependent on experience) + Benefits

Role ID: SF20659

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Project Manager at our Portsmouth site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role

As a Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of multiple projects within QinetiQ’s Maritime business, supporting the development and enhancement of critical capabilities for the Royal Navy, MOD, and allied NATO nations. Working at the forefront of defence innovation, you will help bring new technologies into service and improve existing operational capabilities.

Day-to-day, you’ll collaborate closely with technical teams, MOD stakeholders, and industry partners to manage projects across the full lifecycle. From planning and governance to risk management and delivery, you will drive progress in a dynamic environment, balancing multiple priorities while ensuring successful outcomes for customers and end users.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers, partners, and suppliers while promoting a culture aligned to QinetiQ values


• Deliver projects against agreed objectives for customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, revenue, and cash performance


• Ensure safe, secure, and compliant project delivery, applying appropriate governance, lifecycle, and review processes


• Lead and support project teams, managing performance, objectives, resource demand, and resolving conflicts or prioritisation challenges


• Maintain accurate financial, resource, sales, and delivery forecasts, ensuring reporting reflects current project expectations


• Manage project and opportunity data within SAP CRM, ensuring records, pipeline status, revenue forecasts, and key metrics remain accurate and up to date

Essential experience of the Project Manager:

• Proven experience leading and successfully delivering projects, programmes, portfolios, or business initiatives within a complex environment


• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence, motivate, and align teams towards shared objectives


• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience building effective relationships across customers, partners, and internal teams


• Strong negotiation and conflict resolution abilities, enabling successful management of competing priorities and stakeholder expectations


• Experience contributing to business development activities, including supporting bids, proposals, delivery planning, risk management, and costing activities


• Collaborative team player with a high level of integrity, capable of fostering inclusive, high-performing teams and driving successful outcomes

Essential qualifications for the Project Manager:

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week based at ourPortsmouth site

Portsmouth Technology Park (PTP) is one of QinetiQ’s key facilities, focusing on advanced technology development and engineering services. It is dedicated to research and development, ensuring that complex systems are designed, integrated, and tested effectively to meet operational requirements. The facility utilises sophisticated modelling and simulation techniques to analyse and predict performance.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

At QinetiQ we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible and welcoming workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We believe that a diverse mix of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences drives innovation and leads to better outcomes for our people, customers and communities. We encourage applications from all candidates and are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing [e-mail] . One of our recruitment team will contact you.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture . www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance


• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days


• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance


• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more


• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme


• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community