The Role
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As a Project Manager, you will have a role out of the ordinary. You will be accountable for the delivery and leadership of a multi-year risk-bearing investment project. You will be tasked with ensuring our commitments to our internal and external stakeholders are met.
Day-to-day, you will also be responsible for:
1. Tracking and monitoring of monthly costs, invoicing and revenue payments in order to support business financial objectives and supplier progress, raising of purchase orders, and supply payments on the supply chain side
2. Delivering the project outputs, to agreed baseline (customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales) and ensuring project members operate in line with the Operating Framework & functional competency management requirements
3. Resolving conflicts (including prioritisation calls) within the project and collaborating across QinetiQ
4. Developing and maintaining of forecasts (both financial and resource demand signal) for delivery which reflects the up-to-date expectations for the work
5. The application of governance requirements (including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate) for delivery work
6. Reporting progress on all accountabilities to senior programme / portfolio manager (or their delegate)
This role is a full-time position based at our Portsmouth site with adaptive working arrangements. You will also be required to travel occasionally to BUTEC range, and to QQ, customer and sub-contractor sites for meetings and visits as required.
Essential experience of the Project Manager:
7. Project management experience and worked into a function that successfully delivers support to complex projects
8. Delivering defence, engineering and/or IT projects
9. Leadership; influencing and aligning others towards the vision for the project, and to empower & inspire people to achieve success
10. Communication; effectively communication as part of a two-way interaction, using a range of techniques, to ensure the received meaning matches the transmitted meaning
11. Stakeholder Management: identifying, planning and implementing actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the project outputs
12. Teamwork: creating an environment where a group of people with diverse personalities, skills, experiences and perspectives are empowered to collaborate towards a common goal
Qualifications for the Project Manager:
13. Degree (or equivalent experience) in appropriate discipline
14. Hold a recognised PM qualification (APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ) or Prince2)
15. Experience in Defence, Aerospace or other closely related sectors
Our Benefits:
16. Adaptive and flexible working
17. Generous holiday allowance
18. Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance
19. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
20. Employee discount portal
21. Holiday Trading
22. Support for the Armed Forces community
23. Payroll Giving and Volunteering
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.
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 a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.