Electronic Warfare - Senior Project Manager
Posted 1 week ago by CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
£950 Per day
Undetermined
Hybrid
Southampton, Hampshire
Summary: The role of Senior Project Manager in Electronic Warfare involves leading projects and bids for the UK Ministry of Defence, focusing on innovation and product development. The position requires extensive experience in managing project teams and delivering contracts on time and within budget. The ideal candidate will possess strong project management qualifications and the ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments. This role is based in Southampton and offers a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building and actively managing project teams
- Successfully deliver bids and contracts to target schedule, cost and quality levels
- Identifying, prioritising and actively managing risks & issues associated with bids & live contracts
- Providing timely and accurate forecast information and project reporting
- Ensuring all project artefacts are appropriately controlled and produced to a high standard
Key Skills:
- Experience in products and product development or research and consultancy
- Experience in delivering IT delivery projects using agile principles and methods
- Extensive knowledge of Portfolio Management
- Appropriate Project Management qualifications (e.g., APM, PMI, Prince2)
- SAFe/ Agile qualifications
- Knowledge of Scrum
- Ability to negotiate and communicate openly with stakeholders
- Experience in a complex, multi-team environment
Salary (Rate): £950/day
City: Southampton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Electronic Warfare - Senior Project Manager
Rate: £850 - £950 a day DOE
Clearance: DV Cleared preferred. May take MoD SC
Location: Southampton
Work pattern: Hybrid - 3 / 4 days a week on site
Company: You will join a world leading consultancy delivering technical innovation to the MoD
The role: You will supporting Innovation, R&D, Product Projects and Bids within the Electronic Warfare domain. This opportunity requires experience of working with the UK Ministry of Defence, preferably taking a leading role delivering framework / product projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Building and actively managing project teams
- Successfully deliver bids and contracts to target schedule, cost and quality levels; this means fully understanding the governing contract and delivering it on time and in full (OTIF)
- Identifying, prioritising and actively managing risks & issues associated with bids & live contracts; includes appropriate and timely escalation.
- Providing timely and accurate forecast information and project reporting, managing both internal and external stakeholders expectations as appropriate
- Ensuring all project artefacts (both deliverable & non-deliverable) are appropriately controlled and produced to a high standard, in-line with internal QMS - includes plans, estimates, specifications, architecture & design documents, software, test plans & results, manufacturing data, etc
Skills required:
- Experience in either products and product development or research and consultancy.
- Experience in delivering IT delivery projects using agile principles and methods.
- The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of Portfolio Management
- Appropriate Project Management qualifications (e.g., APM, PMI, Prince2)
- SAFe/ Agile qualifications
- APM PMQ qualified or equivalent or working towards a qualification
- Knowledge of Scrum
- Behaviourally - this is key. Must be able to fit in, negotiate and talk openly with all stakeholders.
- Technically - experience of working within a complex, multi team environment and the processes of such.