Anson McCade
Project Manager
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Salary: £50,000 – £56,000 (depending on experience)
Location & Working
Dynamic (hybrid) working based in Stevenage or Bristol. Expect 2–3 days per week on-site due to workload classification.
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British Citizen or Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. All successful candidates must undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks.
What We Offer
- Company Bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance; varies year to year)
- Pension: Maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- Overtime: Opportunity for paid overtime
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
- Flexible Working: Applications are welcome from those looking for flexible working arrangements
- Enhanced Parental Leave: Up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave, with enhancements also available for paternity leave, neonatal leave, and fertility testing and treatments
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking, and more
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The Opportunity
Join us as a Senior Project Manager with a focus on delivering innovative, compelling, and deliverable business-winning propositions. You will work collaboratively with key stakeholders across Sales & Business Development, Programmes, Technical, and Finance teams. Beyond ensuring excellence in individual bids, this role plays a critical part in shaping long-term product business cases, product route maps, and product investment plans.
What you will be working on:
- Operating in a complex and changing environment with opportunities to contribute to delivering capability to our customers.
- Embedding partner and stakeholder management skills across a diverse, multi-functional, international organization.
- Gaining exposure to a vibrant project management community.
- Opportunities to gain professional and accredited project management qualifications.
- Achieving a high level of integration between functional directorates and customers within the UK and European counterparts.
- Clear opportunities for career progression.
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What We Are Looking For From You
- The ability to form innovative solutions to challenging problems within short timescales.
- Excellent judgment and stakeholder influencing skills.
- A strong understanding of key bidding considerations across multiple stakeholders.
- Experience in project management, contract acquisition, and business delivery.
- Excellent internal and external stakeholder management skills.
- Ideally, knowledge of the defence sector.
- The ability to problem-solve issues in real-time within an ambiguous environment.
- Direct experience either managing or writing bids of a technical nature, preferably within the context of engineering development work.
Key Activity Strands:
- Optimising a portfolio of concurrent and future bidding activities.
- Delivering Product Business Cases to maximise the probability of success for bidding campaigns.
- Contributing to the Product Line strategy through road-mapping and investment strategy.
- Championing business-winning best practices and approaches.
- Responding to changing customer requirements.
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