Programme Manager – Portsmouth, Hampshire – Salary £55,000 to £65,000.
Thomas Search Ltd is a specialist recruitment consultancy for the Built Environment, Defence & Aerospace Industries.
Our client is a leading defence contractor providing key solutions to maritime weapon systems. These projects range from in-house development through to procurement of solutions.
Accountabilities:
- Provide leadership to a team of multi-disciplined project managers and highly technical system/software engineers.
- Meeting contractual obligations
- Achieving excellent customer satisfaction
- Delivery of projects to time, cost and quality
- Production of open, accurate and timely financial and workload forecasts to support planning within the business
- Ability to network, building relationships to enable successful engagement with a broad range of stakeholders (external and internal) often with competing interests
- Management of subcontracts, some with significant development work
- Application of appropriate project governance in-line with business operating framework
- Support the business to develop future pipeline work
- Promotion of best practice within the projects and ensure that previous lessons learnt are adopted and new lessons identified for future benefit
- Develop any appropriate follow on work
Qualifications & Experience:
- Project Management qualification or equivalent
- Previous demonstrable experience of delivering Programmes within the Maritime domain
- Proven ability to decompose complex issues, to an appropriate level of detail, in a methodical manner
- Experience of procurement and tendering processes (e.g. the production of specifications, definition of supplier selection criteria and contracting) and management of suppliers under contract
- Experience of systems and software engineering disciplines and lifecycle to develop complex products in the defence domain
Desirable:
- An understanding of the wider Maritime Defence, in particular Test & Evaluation
- Knowledge of: Information Management Systems / Electronic warfare test systems / Sonobouy test systems / Electromagnetic test and analysis systems / Acoustic signature measurement systems / Radar Cross Section measurement systems.