Project Manager, Operations Management, Business Development

• Location & Working: Dynamic (hybrid) working based in Stevenage or Bristol. Expect 2–3 days per week on-site due to workload classification.
• Security Clearance: British Citizen or Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. All successful candidates must undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks.

What We Offer

• Company Bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance; varies year to year)
• Pension: Maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: Opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible Working: Applications are welcome from those looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced Parental Leave: Up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave, with enhancements also available for paternity leave, neonatal leave, and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking, and more

The Opportunity

Join us as a Senior Project Manager with a focus on delivering innovative, compelling, and deliverable business-winning propositions. You will work collaboratively with key stakeholders across Sales & Business Development, Programmes, Technical, and Finance teams. Beyond ensuring excellence in individual bids, this role plays a critical part in shaping long-term product business cases, product route maps, and product investment plans.

What you will be working on:

• Operating in a complex and changing environment with opportunities to contribute to delivering capability to our customers.
• Embedding partner and stakeholder management skills across a diverse, multi-functional, international organization.
• Gaining exposure to a vibrant project management community.
• Opportunities to gain professional and accredited project management qualifications.
• Achieving a high level of integration between functional directorates and customers within the UK and European counterparts.
• Clear opportunities for career progression.

What We Are Looking For From You

• The ability to form innovative solutions to challenging problems within short timescales.
• Excellent judgment and stakeholder influencing skills.
• A strong understanding of key bidding considerations across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience in project management, contract acquisition, and business delivery.
• Excellent internal and external stakeholder management skills.
• Ideally, knowledge of the defence sector.
• The ability to problem-solve issues in real-time within an ambiguous environment.
• Direct experience either managing or writing bids of a technical nature, preferably within the context of engineering development work.

Key Activity Strands:

• Optimising a portfolio of concurrent and future bidding activities.
• Delivering Product Business Cases to maximise the probability of success for bidding campaigns.
• Contributing to the Product Line strategy through road‑mapping and investment strategy.
• Championing business‑winning best practices and approaches.
• Responding to changing customer requirements.