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The Opportunity

• Flexible working: We offer our employees the time and flexibility they need to enjoy a balanced life through flexible hours and part time options
• Custom working: The role may be a mixture of home based and onsite
• Flexible benefits: Our company-funded approach to flexible benefits allows employees to make choices appropriate for them. Each employee has access to a wide choice of lifestyle,
  health and wellbeing options best suited to their individual lifestyle goals.
• Network groups : To demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion we have network groups for:
• Carers (employees who care for someone who is either older, disabled or seriously ill)
• Enable (supporting people with disabilities)
• Equalise (development of a gender balanced workforce)
• Pride (promoting equality for all LGBTQ+ individuals)
• We also work in partnership with AFBE (Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers).
• Training : Free access to Coursera which provides more than 4,000 online courses
• Continuous Learning : You will be supported in your ongoing professional development though training and mentoring
• Employee Assistance Programme : Providing free and confidential mental health support
• Annual leave: We offer 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays plus 12 Flexi Days.

What you will do

• Be the primary point of contact for the project delivery on Typhoon repairs support.
• Manage all project activities with the project team to ensure the contractual requirements of the projects are executed, and performance is achieved to the satisfaction our Customers and Partners.
• Develop accurate pricing for individual repairs across both Europe and Export customers.
• Manage the project risks and opportunities, and report these to the key stakeholders both internal and external to the Company.
• Provide support to Typhoon Support business development/winning opportunities.

• Delivery on commitments made to both internal and external Customers and Partners.
• Delivery of project milestones and contract requirements to the agreed cost, quality and schedule.
• Developing and maintaining Customer and Partner relationships.
• Mentoring of the junior project team members.
• Managing the overall allocation of project tasks, ensuring the necessary resources are in place to execute these.
• Planning and monitoring of resource expenditure to ensure that resources are available and utilised within budget and in the most cost-effective manner.
• Providing estimates to current and future bid/proposal activities.
• Maintaining project compliance with the company policies and procedures, including life cycle management.

• Achieving Customer and Partner satisfaction through an understanding of their needs and drivers.
• Agreeing work packages with the project team to deliver the overall project requirements.
• Monitoring and control of the project cost and performance, to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
• Identification, management and reporting of project risk and opportunities, and their respective mitigation and realisation activities.
• Lead/support bid and proposal activities to secure new and/or grow existing business.
• Reporting project performance to the Programme Manager, including:
  Summary of overall performance of contracts/services
  Monthly Contract Status Report
  Forecasting project and financial performance
  Adherence to Project Milestones
  Monthly SOFT Report
  Key Technical Issues / Problems affecting performance
  Risk and Opportunity
  Performance of Partners / Sub-Contractors
  Recovery actions for negative variances in schedule or shortfalls in contractual performance against targets
• Supporting the Programme Manager at the Sector Monthly Project Performance Reviews.
• Promotion of knowledge sharing and best practice within the team, enabled by effective communication and planning skills.

What we are looking for

• Experienced project manager with a record of successfully managing defence industry / international contracts.
• Ability to manage and motivate multi-disciplined and geographically dispersed teams.
• Experience of working with multi-company collaborations, and maintaining strong supply base relations.
• Willing to make decisions based on the best information available and take responsibility for these.
• Working knowledge of the Life-Cycle Management processes.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, and able to engage and influence others.
• Working knowledge of SAP system and processes.
• Commercial and business awareness.
• Excellent literacy and numeracy skills.

• Understanding/awareness of Fast Jet in-service support contracts, or modern and innovative in-service support approaches.
• Understanding of Trade Compliance and Export Regulations (ITAR, EAR, etc)
• Experience in working within a bids and proposal team on a complex multi-stakeholder programme.
• Experience in delivering high value programmes/ projects