Role Purpose

To lead the delivery of a HIGH VALUE (>£15M per annum) COMPLEX Programme.

Key Accountabilities

Senior Programme manager for Maritime consulting and Software portfolio
Development and maintenance of positive engagement with programme customers, partners and suppliers.
Operating in a Safe & Secure manner.
Embedding a culture in line with the QinetiQ values.
Delivery of the Programme outcomes, to agreed baseline (customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales).
Ensuring portfolio members operate in line with the Operating Framework & functional competency management requirements; and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in the QinetiQ performance management system.
Resolving conflicts (including prioritisation calls) within the portfolio and collaborating across QinetiQ.
Leading the embedding of improvement in the QinetiQ project and programme management function, as agreed with IDT Lead and the Performance Excellence team.
Maintenance of forecasts (both financial and resource demand signal) for sales and delivery which reflects the up-to-date expectations for the work.
Application of governance requirements (including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate) for foundation sales and delivery work.
Reporting progress on all accountabilities to IDT Lead (or their delegate).
Ensuring correct entry of data onto SAP CRM relating to your opportunities, and maintain this data to reflect any changes in key inputs including: Order Value, Order Intake Scenario, (Low, Base, High, Excluded), Bid Due date, Closing Date, Sales Stage, Margin, Revenue Profile and up to date notes.

Key Capabilities/Knowledge

Leadership; being able to establish the vision and direction for the portfolio (in line with the ISBP), to influence and align others towards this common purpose, and to empower & inspire people to achieve success.
Integrity; being open, honest and doing the right thing. Keeping promises, admitting when I don’t have the answer and when I have made a mistake.
Communication; being able to effectively communicate as part of a two-way interaction, using a range of techniques, to ensure the received meaning matches the transmitted meaning.
Stakeholder Management; being able to identify, plan and implement actions to positively engage parties with an interest in, or influence over, the programme outcomes.
Teamwork; being able to create an environment where a group of people with diverse personalities, skills, experiences and perspectives are empowered to collaborate towards a common goal.
Human Resource Management; supporting functional teams (including HR) to develop and manage our people in line with legal requirements and QinetiQ policy.
Foundation Sales; maintaining strategic relationships with the key stakeholders for the main framework contracts which you manage.  Identify, qualify, develop and deliver solutions to your customer’s using an existing commercial framework contract (such as EDP) and be able to articulate the benefits of the QinetiQ solution to the customer.  
Negotiation & Conflict Management; being able to identify and address differences of objective, attitude or perception in order to produce an agreed outcome for all parties.
Change Management; being able to develop and enact a structured approach to organisational change in support of QinetiQ’s vision, enrolling the impacted people to embrace the changes required to deliver the desired benefits.
Benefits Management; being able to identify, plan, agree and realise tangible and intangible benefits from the activities conducted within the programme.
Business Development; when required work as a member of a capture team to provide customer intelligence and thought leadership to influence the generation of the requirement to increase PWin.

Essential Experience & Qualifications

MSP Practitioner qualification (desirable).
Demonstrable capability to International Project Management Association Level A.
Experience gained, typically rather than necessarily, between 5-8 years of leading a business, projects, programmes, portfolios or P3 function; successful delivery of complex programmes.
Experience leading programmes to 3 different customers.
Desirable Experience & Qualifications

In a Maritime business ideally with experience of Maritime programmes