Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Job Type: Permanent, Fulltime
Location: Farnborough
Job ID: 19215

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Project Manager at our Farnborough site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

Role Purpose:

To lead the delivery of multiple projects within the dynamic Training and Simulation Centre of Excellence. The Centre of Excellence operates a fast paced, complex delivery environment, requiring the need to manage projects spanning different QinetiQ legal entities utilising multiple project and ERP systems.

Key Accountabilities:

• Development and maintenance of positive engagement with project customers, partners and suppliers
• Delivery of the project outputs, to agreed baseline (customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales)
• Inputting and managing project information concurrently in multiple business ERP systems.
• Fostering a spirit of collaboration within the Centre of excellence. Resolving conflicts within the project and collaborating across QinetiQ and subsidiaries (including prioritisation calls) to find optimum delivery solutions for the company
• Embedding a project culture in line with the QinetiQ values, ensuring projects are delivered safely and securely by building a supportive team environment.
• 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.
• Maintenance of forecasts (both financial and resource demand signal) for sales and delivery which reflects the up-to-date expectations for the work.
• Management of risk, opportunity and mitigation plans to optimise business benefit from prApplication of governance requirements (including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate) for foundation sales and delivery work. oject delivery.
• Reporting progress on all accountabilities to programme / portfolio manager (or their delegate).
  
  

Key Capabilities/Knowledge:

• Leadership; being able to influence and align 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, admitting when I don’t have the answer and when I have made a mistake.
• Communication; being able to effectively communicate as part of a two-way interaction, using a range of techniques, to ensure the received meaning matches the transmitted meaning.
• Stakeholder Management; being able to identify, plan and implement actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the project outputs.
  Teamwork; being able to create 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.
  Business Development; being able to identify, develop and deliver solutions to our customers’ problems within an appropriate commercial framework to maximise benefit to both our customers and QinetiQ.
• Negotiation & Conflict Management; being able to identify and address differences of objective, attitude or perception in order to produce an agreed outcome for all parties
  
  

Essential Experience/Qualifications:

• Demonstrable capability to International Project Management Association Level B.
• Experience gained, typically rather than necessarily, between 3-5 years of leading a business, projects, programmes, portfolios or P3 function and successfully delivering complex projects.
• Experience delivering projects to 3 different customers.

Desirable Experience/Knowledge:

• Experience using project planning and accounting in different companies using a variety of project management tools and systems.
• Experience of managing a portfolio of small to medium sized, short timescale projects as well as large value projects with a complex supply chain.

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.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experiences 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. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Benefits:

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Competitive holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which means factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)