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Job Purpose

The Land IDT have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager. As Senior Project Manager you will be responsible for supporting and leading compelling bids and the delivery of standard or complex Projects. The bids and projects you will lead will include a wide variety of interesting subjects & customers, predominantly but not exclusively focussed on the UK MoD (e.g. DE&S or Defence prime contractors). You will be tasked with ensuring our commitments to our internal and external stakeholders are met, this will require a pro-active approach from the successful candidate. As part of your stakeholder engagements you will be expected to develop new and follow-on opportunities to continue the growth of the business. Our projects have a diverse and complex stakeholder community, both internal and external to the company, with the opportunity to deliver across the project lifecycle from requirements capture and business winning right through into delivery.

Key Accountabilities

Delivery of high value or complex projects >£5m revenue per annum

Development and maintenance of positive engagement with project customers, partners and suppliers.

Operating in a Safe & Secure manner.

Embedding a culture in line with the QinetiQ values.

Delivery of the project outputs, to agreed baseline including customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales.

Ensuring project members operate in line with the Operating Framework & functional competency management requirements; and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in the QinetiQ performance management system.

Resolving conflicts, including prioritisation calls, within the project and collaborating across QinetiQ.

Maintenance of forecasts, both financial and resource demand signal, for sales and delivery which reflects the up-to-date expectations for the work.

Application of governance requirements including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate for foundation sales and delivery work.

Reporting progress on all accountabilities to programme / portfolio manager (or their delegate).

Ensuring correct entry and maintenance of data onto customer management tools to support your opportunities with all details correct and up to date on order value, order intake scenario, bid due date, closing date, sales stage, revenue profile and up to date notes.

Key Capabilities & Knowledge

Leadership: influencing and aligning others towards the vision for the project, and to empower & inspire people to achieve success.

Integrity: being open, honest and doing the right thing. Keeping promises.

Communication; effectively communication as part of a two-way interaction, using a range of techniques, to ensure the received meaning matches the transmitted meaning.

Stakeholder Management: identifying, planning and implementing actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the project outputs.

Teamwork: creating an environment where a group of people with diverse personalities, skills, experiences and perspectives are empowered to collaborate towards a common goal.

Human Resource Management; supporting functional teams (including HR) to develop and manage our people in line with legal requirements and QinetiQ policy.

Foundation Sales; identifying, qualifying, developing and delivering solutions to customers using an existing commercial framework contract (such as Strategic Enterprise or Engineering Delivery Partner) and being able to articulate the benefits of the QinetiQ solution to the customer.

Negotiation & Conflict Management; identifying and addressing differences of objective, attitude or perception in order to produce an agreed outcome for all parties.

Business Development; when required, work as a member of a capture team to generate delivery plans, risk registers and costings to support the creation of the proposal document.

Essential Experience & Qualifications

Experience gained, typically rather than necessarily, between 3-5 years of leading a business, projects, programmes, portfolios or P3 function and successfully delivering projects

Demonstrable capability to International Project Management Association Level B

Experience delivering projects to up to 3 different customers

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here .

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.