Project​/Delivery Manager

Overview

Date Posted:

Country: United Kingdom

Location: GBR
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Gloucester, 18b Ley Court, Barnwood Industrial Estate, Barnwood, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, GL4 3RT

Position Role Type: Unspecified

Job Title: Project/Delivery Manager

Grade: P3

Function: PMO

Duration: Permanent

Hours: Full Time - 37 hours

Location(s): Gloucester or Manchester (Hybrid with 2-3 days in the office)

Security Clearance Requirements: Must have current Enhanced DV

Raytheon is a leader in advanced electronics, intelligence and IT systems that provide 21st century solutions to tracking, monitoring and identifying potential threats and protecting communities. Our UK Intelligence & Security business is, among other key accolades, leading developments in Cyber Security. For more than 30 years, Raytheon has protected critical information and infrastructure from the most complex threats.

Raytheon UK is looking for a dynamic and high performing Project/Delivery Manager to work within Raytheon’s Cyber Centre. The work location could be either Manchester or Gloucester with occasional travel to the other Raytheon site and/or customer sites.

The role embodies the driving force of every project, assuring successful execution, identifying and managing to resolution risks and issues through the use of programmatic controls and techniques. The successful candidate will be charged with the successful initiation, execution and completion of projects in line with time, quality and cost/profit targets. You will also represent Raytheon to the customer, its suppliers and management.

Professionalism and credibility will therefore be key.

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Forge strong relationships with external stakeholders whilst establishing trust and internal relationships to ensure that goals and objectives are clearly communicated, understood and executed.
• Ensure that effective project management practices in accordance with Raytheon UK process is applied and maintained.
• Establish and maintain a governance structure to ensure coordination of work requests including estimations, work proposals, forecasting and internal reporting.
• Reporting progress routinely and by exception into the Raytheon account, including both scheduled and ad-hoc management briefings.
• Effective communication of project status and delivery to respective stakeholders utilising metrics and scheduling tools where necessary and appropriate.
• Produce Schedule performance metrics including Schedule variance, Critical Path Analysis and Schedule performance analysis to support the PMO function.
• End to end software delivery management/oversight with Agile principles and Scrum focused teams
• Challenge existing practices and lead continuous improvement in delivery standards and processes
• Where needed, provide Agile coaching to the team including Scrum best practices
• Interpret customer technical requirements and convert them into deliverable solutions whilst managing scope creep and customer expectations
• Identification of project risk, issues and dependencies, seeking resolution before escalation.
• Supporting the Management of the programme’s PMO function helping seek continuous improvements in measuring and reporting delivery progress.
• Interface with the Finance Team to establish and monitor budget authorisations, by ensuring the availability of supporting data enabling collation and analysis of relevant data such as schedule derived ETCs and factored risk cost exposure.
• Build trust and confidence within the team to a level where they will share problems without fear of blame, retribution or being judged whilst also protecting them from outside interruptions and distractions.

• Have an existing enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) security clearance
• Strong organisational, leadership, communication and interpersonal skills being a team motivator capable of building strong relationships with peers, customers and suppliers at all levels.
• Demonstrable knowledge working within software development teams that diligently apply Scrum and Agile principles, practices, techniques and methodologies.
• Experienced in the principles of Project/Task based Management, Risk…