Senior Change Manager (Programme Manager)

Leidos; Fareham; Hybrid; GBP 71,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Fareham is seeking an experienced Senior Change Manager to manage the Programme Change Control Process. This pivotal role requires extensive change control experience in complex environments, strong stakeholder management skills, and professional certifications. The position offers a hybrid work model with a competitive salary range. Join to make a significant impact in driving effective change management.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in change control within a large programme.
• Strong commercial awareness with understanding of contract change control.
• Demonstrable experience running change control governance forums.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Change Control Process within the PMO.
• Chair and coordinate the Change Working Group.
• Oversee and prepare impact assessments.
• Engage and influence a diverse set of stakeholders.

Skills

Change control and impact assessment

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Influencing skills

Project management methodologies

Education

Professional certifications in Programme or Change Management

Job description

Join our UK Team who are committed to a Mission!

Senior Change Manager (Programme Manager)

Whiteley, Hampshire

Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Change Manager to join the Programme Management Office (PMO) of a major programme. This role is pivotal in ensuring effective change control across a complex and dynamic environment, providing oversight of all programme-level changes and their commercial, contractual and delivery impacts.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the Change Control Process for the Programme and requires experience working in complex Programme environments, strong commercial awareness and exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.

Clearance Required

This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance.

The role

• Lead and Manage the Programme Change Control Process within the PMO, ensuring robust governance and compliance with Programme standards.
• Chair and coordinate the Change Working Group, ensuring all proposed changes are reviewed, understood and progressed appropriately.
• Oversee and prepare impact assessments, working closely with various subject matter experts to capture full implications across cost, schedule, risk and benefits.
• Engage and influence a diverse set of stakeholders across various disciplines both internally and externally.
• Provide advice and guidance on Change Control best practice, aligned to the contractual terms of the Programme.

What does Leidos need from me

• Extensive experience in change control and impact assessment within a large, complex programme or portfolio environment.
• Strong commercial awareness, with a solid understanding of contract change control.
• Demonstrable experience of running change control governance forums such as Change Working Groups or Change Boards.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Proficient in project and programme management methodologies.
• Professional certifications in Programme or Change Management.

Location

This is a Hybrid role. This role will have an element of working from home or Leidos Facility, with frequent travel to customer sites in the South of England.

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

£71,700.00-£94,300.00

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.