Senior Project Manager
// Role Summary
Lead high-value, complex defence projects as a Senior Project Manager at QinetiQ, working with cutting-edge technology and brilliant minds at either Fort Halstead or Shoeburyness.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of complex projects within the UK Defence sector.
- Manage customer and partner engagement, ensuring project outputs meet agreed targets.
- Maintain financial forecasts and resource demand signals.
- Apply governance requirements for sales and delivery.
- Utilise SAP for opportunity management, including order value, intake, and margin.
- Requires APM or Prince2 qualification and a degree in a relevant field.
// Role Specification
Senior Project Manager
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow, we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations, our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Project Manager at either our Fort Halstead or Shoeburyness site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of one or more high-value complex projects within the UK Defence arm of QinetiQ, specifically within the Land & Weapons division. Day-to-day, you’ll develop and maintain positive engagement with project customers and partners while delivering against project outputs to agreed baseline targets such as customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash, and sales.
Responsibilities:
- Maintenance of forecasts, both financial and resource demand signal.
- Application of governance requirements for foundation sales and delivery work.
- Ensuring correct entry of data onto SAP relating to your opportunities, including order value, order intake scenario, bid due date, closing date, sales stage, margin, and revenue profile.
Essential Experience:
- Demonstrable capability to International Project Management Level B.
- Experience gained between 3-5 years of leading a business, projects, programmes, portfolios, or P3 function and delivering against complex projects.
Essential Qualifications:
- APM or Prince2.
- Degree in a relevant field.
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education. Provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn, we would like to hear from you.
This role is 37 hours per week, based at our Fort Halstead or Shoeburyness site, with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week.
About Shoeburyness:
QinetiQ Shoeburyness is a significant test and evaluation facility specialising in defence and security technologies. The site is focused on Environmental Testing, including the evaluation of various ordnance, explosives, and related systems. It implements measures to ensure testing activities comply with environmental regulations and minimise ecological impact.
About Fort Halstead:
Our facilities at Fort Halstead, located in Kent, focus on a wide range of defence-related research, particularly weapons systems and military technology. Modern laboratories enable engineers and scientists to conduct high-tech research in material science, systems engineering, and advanced simulation techniques.
Successful applicants will need to be able to obtain security clearance for this role. Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.