Programme Director

Location: Basingstoke – onsite 5 days a week (travel will be required to customer sites, including London).

Our purpose is to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. As a Programme Director, you will contribute to this by taking responsibility for the improvement programme (Catalyst) for one of our major programmes delivering into the MOD, underpinned by the Fujitsu Core values and the Defence and National Security (DNS) Charter. This improvement programme is critically important to DNS and the customer and will have a high level of engagement from the senior leadership on both sides.

The successful person will need to demonstrate strong leadership; establish pragmatic relationships with key customers; as well as drive our colleagues, our internal stakeholders within the supporting enabling services and the wider UK delivery community towards consistent delivery excellence.

Your Role

• Working with the Programme Director for the delivery of the overall programme.
• The scope of Catalyst Programme includes the accountability for a major improvement programme including:
• Establishing better financial control and turnaround of profit erosion.
• Addressing customer dissatisfaction.
• Improving workforce experience.
• Establishing stable forecasted delivery.
• Building customer relationships.
• Managing risks, issues, conflicts and priorities.

You will have ultimate accountability for the successful delivery of the Catalyst Programme and will have the full support of the Portfolio Delivery Director through the delivery of the improvement programme, managing key stakeholders to mutual benefit by ensuring that the programme goals are met by providing a motivation capacity that cannot be achieved at programme or project level.

You will own the overall delivery direction and vision in conjunction with the Programme Director and the MOD customer. You will lead a team, including leveraging the PMO to achieve business benefits for both the customer and Fujitsu DNS. You will be accountable for the effective management of the programme including risks, issues, conflicts, priorities, resources, and communications. You will drive the delivery of the programme, managing key stakeholders to mutual benefit by ensuring that the programme goals are met.

Transferrable Skills and Experience

• Provides strong leadership and guidance to programme and project teams as well as setting strategic direction and vision.
• Supports personal and professional development within programme team/s and wider community.
• Directs the management of the business and overall Portfolio risk. Ensures the production of effective mitigation plans and risk assessments so that timescales and overall Portfolio/programme/project costs are understood and underwritten by all the relevant stakeholders.
• Experienced Programme Manager (large complex programs and ideally at portfolio level).
• Strong senior customer/stakeholder management (internal/external).
• Strong governance and control (financial/risk/issues/dependency management).
• Finds solutions/thinks out of the box.
• Strong communicator and experience with working under pressure.

This role requires candidates to be eligible and willing to undergo a high level of security clearance prior to commencing the role.

Please note: It’s still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/background in Programme Leadership this could be the next opportunity for you.

Your Benefits

• 26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible).
• Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%.
• Life assurance.
• Companywide incentive plans.
• Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays/travel/dental critical illness and more).
• Perks at work – employee discounts.
• Employee assistance programme/virtual GP.

Recruitment process

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric: Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.