As a Product Project Manager within our Futures Business Unit, you thrive on driving advancement of emerging technology both through customer-funded projects and internal investment. This is a key delivery role where your successes will be recognised companywide, with exposure up to board level.
Roke’s Futures business unit uses our expertise gathered across many industries to provide rapid, innovative, and secure solutions to our customers’ most complex challenges. We operate across the whole lifecycle providing advice, research and development, engineering, design and in-service support for our products and services. We have solutions around Intelligent Sensing, Situational Awareness and Autonomy. We have a strong reputation of selling innovative solutions and services to Rolls Royce for Aerospace inspection and into FTSE 100 companies in Utilities, Mining, and Telecom sectors. We have also delivered referenceable AI solutions to the Home Office and law enforcement, and healthcare.
As our next Product Project Manager, you’ll be the lead on product development projects to exceed customer expectations, engaging with the client throughout the project life cycle.
Working in a diverse and welcoming culture, the key responsibilities are:
1. Manage the design and coordination of trial-stage activities from simulation demonstrators through to live field trial events with a range of hardware / technology.
2. Collaborate closely with the Business Unit Leadership Team, Client Management, central business functions and others in the delivery teams.
3. Consistently execute contracts fully to schedule, cost and quality through management techniques tailored to the projects.
4. Create trusted and enduring relationships, building value for both the customer and Roke.
5. Identify, prioritise, and mitigate risks & issues associated with both the bid process and project delivery.
6. Support and lead bids with confidence; demonstrating that schedule, cost & quality factors are fully considered.
7. Report/forecast accurately against key performance measures/indicators (KPIs).
8. Continually seek to improve delivery capability in parallel to core delivery.
The Key Requirements...
You will have:
1. Experience leading projects with a product development / introduction lifecycle.
2. Overseen trial events from planning through to hands-on testing and demonstrations.
3. Managed engineering teams that develop novel solutions, ideally with a software element.
4. Experience managing hardware suppliers.
5. Successfully delivered bids and contracts to target schedule, cost, and quality levels.
6. Provided timely and accurate forecast information and project reporting, managing both internal and external stakeholders’ expectations as appropriate.
7. A willingness to occasionally travel to other Roke sites (Woking, Romsey, Gloucester, Manchester, and London) or to client sites, if needed.
Desirable:
1. Experience of agile software delivery.
2. Experience of / exposure to software delivery within a product environment.
3. Knowledge of drones and C-UAS.
4. Defence and Law Enforcement experience.
Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC clearance.
The Next Step...
Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you.
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