Project Manager, Operations Management, Project & Program Management

Location: Farnborough, United Kingdom

Salary: Dependent on Experience

Employment type: Permanent, full-time Minimum three days per week

Clearance: Must be able to obtain UK Developed Vetting (DV) clearance

Eligibility: UK national or EU (27) citizen

We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Project Manager to join a specialist team that delivers industry-leading, government-approved Data-at-Rest encryption solutions to government and defence organisations globally.

Reporting to the Programme Director, you will be responsible for delivering projects through their full lifecycle, ensuring successful outcomes across time, cost and quality. You will manage multi-disciplinary engineering teams and coordinate wider delivery functions, using strong communication and organisational skills to ensure clarity of objectives, effective delivery and positive customer relationships.

This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging projects within a secure, high-impact environment, supporting critical government and defence customers.

• Deliver technical projects through the full project lifecycle, ensuring delivery to agreed time, cost and quality targets.
• Manage project reporting, scheduling, financial reporting, budgeting and risk management.
• Lead and matrix-manage multi-disciplinary delivery teams, coordinating activity across internal departments.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers.
• Lead internal progress meetings and customer progress meetings, both virtually and face to face.
• Support effort estimating, resource planning, scheduling and time-management processes.
• Identify, manage and elevate project risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies and decisions through RAID management.
• Operate effective change-control processes to manage scope, schedule and budget impacts.
• Contribute to the compilation of whitepapers, bids and proposals, including technical content, cost and scheduling information.
• Foster collaborative relationships that develop customer understanding, support growth and enable effective management of change.

• Proven project-management experience within a technical environment.
• APMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent project-management qualification.
• Strong working knowledge of common project-management methodologies.
• Experience managing budgets, schedules, resources, risks and change control.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management and relationship-building skills.
• Confident working with multi-disciplinary teams in a matrix-managed environment.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Good working knowledge of MS Office, including MS Project.

• Experience delivering projects for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and/or secure communications programmes.
• Existing DV clearance.
• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to develop customer intimacy.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals or technical whitepapers.
• Ability to work at pace in a fast-moving, customer-focused environment.