Project Manager - Defence

Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role ID: SF18889

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 Portsmouth site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role

As a Project Manager, you will be in a key role within the portfolio, you will be responsible for the delivery of high-value projects to our customers within our Systems Integration and Assurance portfolio. This role is critical to strategic growth of the portfolio whilst ensuring sound delivery practise. You will be working within our Defence Digital Business Stream and will have the opportunity to lead the delivery of highly classified projects, making a tangible difference to national security.

Day-to-day, you’ll be influencing and aligning other people towards the visions of projects whilst both empowering and inspiring other people to achieve success within.

Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Developing and maintaining positive engagement with project customers, partners, suppliers and stakeholders
• Delivering project outputs to an agreed baseline such as; customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales
• The application of governance requirements for the foundation of sales and delivery work including lifecycle, project and independent reviews
• Business development and being able to identify, qualify, develop and deliver solutions to customers articulating the benefits of QinetiQ solutions
• Negotiation & conflict management and Human resource management
  
  
  

Essential Experience Of The Project Manager

• Knowledge of MoD project and procurement processes
• Previous experience managing maritime or defence projects
• Exposure to capture and bidding in a previous role
  
  
  

Essential Qualifications For The Project Manager

• APM qualified or another comparable PM qualification
• The successful candidate must be willing to undergo DV Clearance
  
  
  

This role is 37 hours per week based at PTP, Portsmouth. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Portsmouth Technology Park (PTP) is one of QinetiQ’s key facilities, focusing on advanced technology development and engineering services. It is dedicated to research and development, ensuring that complex systems are designed, integrated, and tested effectively to meet operational requirements. The facility utilises sophisticated modelling and simulation techniques to analyse and predict performance.

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
• Generous 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)