Senior Project Manager

QinetiQ; Portsmouth; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role ID: SF18237

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 Senior 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 Senior Project Manager, you will be assuming a senior position within the portfolio, working closely with the Senior Portfolio Manager to provide oversight and guidance to more junior members of the projects team in the execution of the portfolio whilst delivering your own projects. This role is critical to the strategic growth of the portfolio whilst ensuring sound delivery practice. You will be working within our Defence Digital Business Stream and will have the opportunity to lead the delivery of highly classified projects, making a tangible difference to national security.

Day-to-day, you’ll be influencing and aligning other people towards the visions of projects whilst both empowering and inspiring other people to achieve success within.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Being able to influence others as a respected leader
• Developing and maintaining positive engagement with project customers, partners, suppliers and stakeholders
• Delivering project outputs to an agreed baseline such as customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales
• The application of governance requirements for the foundation of sales and delivery work including lifecycle, project and independent reviews
• Business development and being able to identify, qualify, develop and deliver solutions to customers articulating the benefits of QinetiQ solutions
• Negotiation & conflict management and Human resource management

Essential experience of the Senior Project Manager:

• Previous experience of complex project programme or portfolio planning and execution
• Knowledge of MoD project and procurement processes
• Previous experience doing business development

Essential qualifications for the Senior Project Manager:

• APM qualified or another comparable PM qualification
• The successful candidate must be willing to undergo DV Clearance

This role is 37 hours per week based at PTP, Portsmouth. Hybrid working patterns are available.

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.

Our Benefits

• 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

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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 mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be willing to go through DV Clearance.