Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Delivery of the project outputs, to agreed baseline (time, cost, quality)
• Support delivery of IDT business objectives (orders, revenue, margin & cash).

• Reporting progress on all accountabilities to programme / portfolio manager (or their delegate).
• Manage all stakeholders & supporting functions to ensure that the system data is updated regularly to report the latest expectations for the work
• Leading the generation of OBS, WBS, PBS and associated plans for bids, working in lockstep with the sales & bid manager to generate a compelling proposition in line with the budget / price to win.
• Support achievement of business performance KPIs (milestone adherence, productivity, etc.)
• Be the champion for what you are delivering, by providing project briefs to management / business development and attending coordination meetings to demonstrate synergies between ongoing projects and higher level \'campaigns
• Establish and grow strong & trusted relationships with customers, partners and suppliers.
• Proactive management to avoid issues occurring wherever possible, if not then the satisfactory resolution of conflicts (including prioritisation calls) within the project and collaborating across QinetiQ.
• Ensure all activities across project delivery are conducted in line with the Operating Framework
• Establish and maintain clear communication & data storage, utilised by all project team members, (as required by project contractual & operating framework requirements)
• Ensure ALL meetings have formal & agreed recording of minutes, actions, decisions, and those are managed through to completion.
• Operating in a Safe & Secure manner

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.
• Foundation Sales; being able to identify, qualify, develop and deliver solutions to your customers using an existing commercial framework contract (such as EDP) and be able to articulate the benefits of the QinetiQ solution to the customer.
• 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.
• 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

• Demonstrable capability to International Project Management Association Level D.
• Experience gained, typically rather than necessarily, between 1-3 years of leading a business, projects, programmes, portfolios or P3 function and successfully supporting the delivering projects.

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 .

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.

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