Project Manager - Defence

Match Performance; Clydebank; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Match Performance is seeking a Project Manager for a 6-month engagement. You will lead multidisciplinary teams across semi-complex projects and complex control accounts, ensuring alignment with the organisation's strategy and MoD operating model.

You will be accountable for delivering outputs within performance, cost and time constraints, while mitigating risk, maintaining governance, and engaging with customers to validate requirements and acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

• Leading, managing and developing multidisciplinary teams covering semi-complex projects, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts.
• Accountable for delivering outputs within the performance/cost/time envelope for a semi-complex project, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts.
• Responsible for ensuring the most cost-effective and efficient means of delivery, whilst mitigating risk and leveraging opportunities.
• Support an open, honest, no blame culture. Actively highlighting failures and shortfalls positively and drawing through LFE into the project or control account, advising on mitigations and engaging with OBI owner to mitigate wider occurrence.
• Responsible for embedding and adhering to all governance and policy and enable the required compliance throughout their team, ensure appropriate challenge and gain approval to deviate when necessary.
• Regularly meet the customer to understanding the objective, requirements and the means of acceptance in line with the MoD's Operating Model and Defence Lines of Development.
• Deliver project requirements within the performance/cost/time envelope. Sustain and leverage value through the monitoring and management of contract performance against commitments (product and services) and meet our own obligations under the contract

Job description

Project Manager

6 months

SC Cleared

Overview of role

• To deliver semi-complex projects, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts addressing issues, or situations with limited supervision.
• To lead projects across a range of business contexts. Inform acquisition strategy and align portfolio/projects to the organisational vision.

Typical main responsibilities

• Responsible for leading, managing and developing multidisciplinary teams covering a range of subject areas within associated semi-complex projects, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts.
• Accountable for the delivery of their projects' outputs within the performance/cost/time envelope for a semi-complex project, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts.
• Responsible for ensuring the most cost-effective and efficient means of delivery, whilst mitigating risk and leveraging opportunities.
• Support an open, honest, no blame culture. Actively highlighting failures and shortfalls positively and drawing through LFE into the project or control account, advising on mitigations and engaging with OBI owner to mitigate wider occurrence.
• Responsible for embedding and adhering to all governance and policy and enable the required compliance throughout their team, ensure appropriate challenge and gain approval to deviate when necessary.
• Regularly meet the customer to understanding the objective, requirements and the means of acceptance in line with the MoD's Operating Model and Defence Lines of Development.
• Deliver project requirements within the performance/cost/time envelope. Sustain and leverage value through the monitoring and management of contract performance against commitments (product and services) and meet our own obligations under the contract