Bid & PreSales Delivery​/Programme Manager - DV Cleared; IT​/Contractor

Required:

Bid & Pre Sales Delivery/Programme Manager

Location:

Basingstoke, full time onsite

Duration: 6 Months+

Clearance level: DV level

The Programme / Delivery Management Lead plays a pivotal role across the full bid lifecycle and early phases of delivery mobilisation, ensuring that client develops credible, competitive, deliverable Transition & Transformation (T&T) and Agile programme responses.

• Lead the end-to-end design of Transition & Transformation (T&T) and Agile programmes during bids and proposals.
• Own the T&T / Agile programme plan, including schedules, gating, staffing, governance structures, and delivery methodology.
• Produce the programme costing, ensuring alignment to volumetrics, solution strategy, and validated historical benchmarks.
• Create the dependency matrix, ensuring all dependencies are clearly articulated and owned across delivery and solution teams.
• Capture and maintain all Risks, Issues, Assumptions, and Dependencies (RAID) for the programme.
• Conduct and report on due diligence, including technical, operational, commercial, and customer-side constraints.

• Strong experience delivering using SAFe Agile methodology.
• Strong programme management background with experience delivering complex T&T programmes.
• Experience designing programme structures and plans during bids.
• Defence/Nat Sec experience and understanding of secure governance.

• Experience shaping win strategies or solution options.
• Experience with in Strategic Partnering models.
• Experience with digital transformation, infrastructure modernisation, or secure platform delivery.

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 18 weeks.

LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.