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Programme Director
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.
RAYTHEON UK – Programme Director (Portsmouth)
- Role accountability: Successful delivery of a multi-hundred-million-pound portfolio within the Team Fisher consortium, supporting the Royal Navy’s training transformation.
- 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.
- Drive continuous improvement across the programme.
Reports to: Associate Director of Training Transformation Services.
Main Duties Provide strategic direction across all programme elements, aligning delivery with:
- Customer outcomes
- Consortium objectives
Main tasks:
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Maintain full accountability for:
- Programme performance
- Risk
- Opportunities
- Overall delivery confidence
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Drive recovery/resolution of complex delivery challenges where required
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Act as senior interface to:
- Royal Navy
- MOD
- Team Fisher partners
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Build and sustain trusted relationships at senior levels, ensuring:
- Alignment
- Effective collaboration
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Operate effectively in a multi-partner consortium environment, balancing:
- Commercial priorities
- Collaborative priorities
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Ensure alignment across delivery partners, including:
- Capita
- Other industry stakeholders
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Lead and empower Integrated Product Teams and Programme Management teams across multiple disciplines, including:
- Engineering
- Supply Chain
- Finance
- Training Design and Support functions
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Champion robust PMO governance, ensuring:
- Effective controls
- Reporting
- Assurance across the portfolio
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Full accountability for:
- Financial performance:
- Forecasting
- EAC
- Cost control
- Financial performance:
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Ensure compliance with:
- Raytheon standards
- Contractual requirements
- Regulatory obligations
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Develop and mentor programme leaders and emerging talent, strengthening organisational capability
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Actively support Raytheon’s culture, people initiatives, and:
- Participation in forums
- Continuous improvement activities
Essential
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Proven experience leading large, complex, multi-disciplinary programmes (typically £100m+)
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Strong track record in defence, training, or engineering-led environments
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Experience operating within:
- Collaborative programmes
- Consortium delivery models
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Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including engagement with:
- Senior customer representatives
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Strong financial and commercial acumen, including ownership of programme P&L performance
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Demonstrated leadership of:
- Large, geographically dispersed teams
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Experience embedding:
- Governance
- Driving programme controls
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Ability to:
- Operate strategically
- Maintain grip on delivery detail
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Desirable
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Expert knowledge of:
- Governance and Assurance standards
- Policies
- Practices
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Degree qualified in a:
- Technical discipline
- Project management-related discipline
- or equivalent non-academic experience
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Experience working in relevant defence domains supporting MOD customers
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Understanding of the Defence Systems Approach to Training
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
- ‘Life Assurance’ coverage (6× salary)
- 25 days holiday (increases with service) + statutory public holidays, plus an opportunity to buying/selling up to 5 days
- Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
- Flexible Benefits scheme (including):
- Health Cash Plan
- Dental
- Cycle to Work
- Enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced family-friendly policies, including:
- Maternity/paternity leave
- Shared parental leave
Work Culture
- Working week: 37 hours ( Adjustments possible pending site/job-specific needs)
- Friday close: 1:30 PM
- Flexible/remote/hybrid options, determined by individual role requirements
- Up to 5 paid volunteer days/year
- Flexible output-focused culture, with formal arrangements on request.
RTX Commitment
RTX adheres to equal employment principles; all qualified applicants considered without regard to:
- Ethnicity
- Colour
- Religion
- Gender
- Sexual orientation
- National origin
- Age
- Disability
- Protected veteran status
- Other protected characteristics
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