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Date Posted:
2026-07-29
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Fareham, Hampshire
Position Role Type:
Hybrid
Programme Director
Portsmouth (Hybrid)
Summary of Role
Raytheon UK’s, Training Transformation Business, has a terrific opportunity for an experienced Programme Director to join our growing team. The Training Transformation team delivers a wide range of programmes across four key areas: Training Integration, Training Equipment, Training Delivery, and Training Simulation. This can be to military customers, or through other key defence companies.
The Programme Director role is accountable for the successful delivery of a multi-hundred million pound portfolio within the Team Fisher consortium, supporting the Royal Navy’s training transformation. The role provides strategic leadership across complex programmes spanning systems integration, through-life equipment support, and advanced training design.
The postholder will lead a Raytheon Integrated Programme Team, ensuring delivery to cost, schedule, and performance, while maintaining strong customer relationships and driving continuous improvement across the programme.
There will be significant exposure to Senior Leadership and excellent opportunities to advance within the company.
This will report to the Associate Director of Training Transformation Services.
Main Duties
- Provide strategic direction across all programme elements, aligning delivery with customer outcomes and consortium objectives
- Maintain full accountability for programme performance, including risk, opportunities, and overall delivery confidence
- Drive recovery and resolution of complex delivery challenges where required
- Act as the senior interface to the Royal Navy, MOD, and Team Fisher partners
- Build and sustain trusted relationships at senior levels, ensuring alignment and effective collaboration
- Operate effectively within a multi-partner consortium environment, balancing commercial and collaborative priorities
- Ensure alignment across delivery partners, including Capita and other industry stakeholders
- Lead and empower Integrated Product Teams and Programme Management teams across multiple disciplines
- Ensure effective coordination across Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Training Design, and Support functions
- Champion robust PMO governance, ensuring effective controls, reporting, and assurance across the portfolio
- Full accountability for financial performance, including forecasting, EAC, and cost control
- Ensure compliance with Raytheon standards, contractual requirements, and regulatory obligations
- Develop and mentor programme leaders and emerging talent, strengthening organisational capability
- Actively support Raytheon’s culture and people initiatives, including participation in forums and continuous improvement activities
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Essential:
- Proven experience leading large, complex, multi-disciplinary programmes (typically £100m+)
- Strong track record in defence, training, or engineering-led environments
- Experience operating within collaborative programmes or consortium delivery models
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior customer representatives
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, with ownership of programme P&L performance
- Demonstrated leadership of large, geographically dispersed teams
- Experience embedding governance and driving programme controls
- Ability to operate strategically while maintaining grip on delivery detail
Desirable:
- Expert knowledge of Governance and Assurance standards, policies, and practices
- Degree qualified in a technical or project management related discipline, or with equivalent non-academic experience
- Experience of working in relevant domains in support of an MOD customer
- An understanding of the Defence Systems Approach to Training
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Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
- 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
- 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
- Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
- Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
- Enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
Work Culture
- 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement, or site-specific arrangements.
- Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
- Remote, hybrid, and site-based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
- Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
- Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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