Stakeholder Management

• Fostering a collaborative approach. Engage, influence and collaborate with all stakeholders (internal, including Finance, Commercial, People, Enterprise Services, Portfolio Office, Technical & Supply Chain and external), ensuring on-going commitment.
• Utilising communication management to exchange relevant and timely information to support successful delivery and inform decision making.
• Understand customer expectations and ensure we are aligned by building customer relations, listen, act, be reliable, responsive, provide assurance, care, avoid complacency, and seek customer feedback.
• Focus on customer needs, ensuring that the intended benefits are delivered for both the customer and QinetiQ, whilst identifying opportunities in line with strategic objectives.

Commercial Management & Change Control

• Lead pre and post contract discussions to shape project scope and collaboratively work with the Commercial function to understand QinetiQ's contractual rights and obligations.
• Set direction on commercial issues in order to minimise contractual risk and optimise financial reward.
• Understand project scope, taking action relating to change control internally (project performance) and externally to manage customer changes.

Quality Management

• Work closely with the relevant Technical Leads.
• Ensure that project/programme outputs are delivered in accordance with the defined scope and contractual requirements, meet stakeholder expectations and are fit for purpose.
• Creating an overall Quality Management Plan (QMP) if applicable and ensuring the programme is compliant with internal processes, standards and regulations stipulated in the contract.

Requirements Management

• Capture, assess and justify stakeholders wants and needs to satisfy the identified programme needs and benefits.

Assurance

• Attend Decision Point reviews and undertake a Delegated Authority role.
• Assure other projects/programmes within delegation.

Business Development & On Contract Growth

• Build and strengthen customer relationships in order to extend existing work (on-contract growth) or bring in new sales opportunities.
• Seek to understand customer needs and requirements and triage these effectively through Decision Point governance.
• Support bidding activities, including planning, estimating and writing, as required.

Programme Recovery

• Support programmes of concern to establish a recovery plan.
• This may include a baselining activity.

Experience / Qualifications & Key Capabilities/Knowledge

• APM PMQ, ChPP, PMI PgMP or AIPM CPPD, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Foundation & Practitioner or demonstrate working towards equivalent certification from accredited body.
• Recognised expert in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience. Called on by senior leaders for advice and guidance across the business.
• Applies detailed/in-depth knowledge of programme management, understanding the full project lifecycle.
• Plans and manages programmes and/or processes, working independently with no supervision. Providing guidance and advice to others.
• Problems faced are difficult and complex. Strong analytical and problem-solving attributes.
• Has detailed/in-depth knowledge of lifecycles and recognised as an expert.
• Has typical +10 years’ experience of working within project teams and leading programmes.
• Implementing and refining strategies and plans within their area of focus independently whilst collaborating with other relevant stakeholders.
• Actively engages with development of new processes, standards or plans that will impact on the achievement of functional results.
• Coaching, reviewing and delegating work to lower-level professionals. Mentors' community, supervises and functionally manages lower-level professionals.
• Has extensive experience of using project management tools such as Microsoft Project, SAP and/or Oracle.
• Very strong time management and organisational skills.
• Thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced and goal driven environment.

Candidate Requirements

• Must have the ability and willingness for MOD DV clearance

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 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 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 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 value, 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 mean 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.

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