Delivery Manager in Milton Keynes

This role is available full-time for 37 hours per week Monday to Friday or part-time with a minimum coverage of 28 hours. Flexible or compressed working hours available. This role is predominantly based in the office with potential for some home working.

Can you transform and streamline delivery teams working on national security challenges? Could you lead agile teams to deliver diverse, impactful projects, in an environment that really matters? In the world of national security, your work will do exactly that. No two pieces of work are the same. Your adaptable approach will enable you to deliver projects at pace, whether that’s a hands-on agile team role, a huge project, or a collection of smaller tasks and activities forming a system, programme or portfolio.

You will leverage your extensive expertise in Project, Portfolio, or Delivery Management to lead diverse teams, who bring unique perspectives and solutions to the most innovative challenges in national security. Your communication skills will be crucial in establishing and maintaining positive working relationships with stakeholders both internally and externally. You will be managing customer experiences as well as ensuring teams work collaboratively to deliver results fast.

We have several roles available working across a variety of teams:

• Transformation – You’ll manage business change projects, this could be anything from estates, IT, business process change, restructuring, implementing new ways of working, corporate processes, all the things that make a business tick that may want to be improved to enable engineering.
• Technical/product - You’ll work with software, hardware & firmware teams, liaising with specialist departments such as antennas, power sources, manufacturing and test teams to deliver projects that will impact national security.
• Co-Creation – Innovation is at the heart of what we do. Critical and emerging technologies are advancing at unprecedented speed, and you’ll collaborate closely with industry and academia to deliver projects that shape these pioneering capabilities.

Whichever team you are in, you will be shaping new ways of working to meet our vision for the future. HMGCC is a corporate affiliate with the Association for Project Management (APM). As an established senior project, portfolio or delivery manager, you’ll be very familiar with delivery and management best practices and able to lead teams from day one and guide other delivery managers. You’ll be able to develop your career through training courses and professional accreditation – we invest in our people.

More about you

To apply for this role, you will already have:

• In depth experience in using a variety of tools, techniques, methodologies and best practices across all stages of the project management lifecycle.
• Successfully delivered multiple complex projects or other objectives.
• Extensive experience of managing both internal teams and subcontracted work.
• A track record of leading and mentoring other project managers.

It would be beneficial if you have one of the following (although these are not essential):

• Experience of auditing projects or carrying out delivery assurance reviews.
• Experience of building high performing agile teams.
• Experience of change management or the delivery of business change initiatives.
• A level of professional accreditation and/or membership of a recognised project management body like APM.

Your personal skills

You will be someone who:

• Displays behaviours that promote a collaborative working environment which supports equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Has a track record of multiple successful deliveries.
• Understands deliveries/projects are unique and tailors your approach appropriately.
• Knows when and how to use third parties to expedite delivery.
• Likes seeing things through to the end.
• Has the drive and commitment to finish work to a high standard.
• Coaches and mentors both team members and others across the business to apply the most appropriate delivery tools and techniques.
• Acts as a role model and encourages others to develop.
• Enjoys working with people with a diverse range of skills, sharing ideas about how to get the results needed.
• Is pro-active about maintaining and developing your knowledge and skills.
• Enjoys the challenge of thinking of innovative solutions to hard problems.
• Is not constrained by convention.
• Consistently seeks and acts on stakeholder feedback to improve delivery.

Putting your skills to use

Using your diverse range of skills within the delivery team, you will:

• Build and maintain teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well.
• Identify obstacles and help teams to overcome them.
• Maintain and enhance good stakeholder relations through effective communications; report progress and issues appropriately and effectively to avoid surprises.
• Use and tailor different delivery methodologies to the work being delivered.
• Ensure teams work in an efficient and co-ordinated manner, building momentum.
• Lead risk management and assurance activities, successfully managing technical and commercial risks as part of successful delivery; preparing and maintaining delivery, quality and risk plans.
• Support the delivery community by identifying improvements to processes and assist in the implementation of these to achieve benefits across all our work.
• Remain up to date on developments in the delivery and project management profession.

What we offer

Now that we’ve explained a bit about what you will be doing, here’s what we can offer you:

• A positive, collaborative and inclusive work environment.
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 after 5 years’ service.
• 8 Bank Holiday days off in addition to your annual leave.
• 2 ½ additional days leave (set dates through the year).
• Pension. Our Pension scheme is Alpha. It’s competitive.
• Paid overtime or time off in lieu. Your salary is for your contracted hours. If you work more, we believe you should be rewarded for that.
• Flexible or compressed hours to support you to balance your life with your work.
• Paid parental and adoption leave and neonatal policy.
• Training. This can be anything from a ½ day internal course to a distant learning degree. If it’s relevant to your career, we will aim to support you.
• Opportunities for mentoring and coaching.
• Free secure parking and allocated parking for car shares.
• Affinity groups – whether you are a person with a disability, part of the LGBTQIA+ community and/or from an ethnic minority background, we provide an inclusive environment, support and a variety of networks for everyone.
• Free onsite gym, open 24 hours a day.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Multi-faith Prayer room. This is a quiet contemplation room for staff to use for prayer or reflection.
• 3 days paid leave a year to support a registered charity of your choice.
• Sports & Social Society. Whether its classic cars or baking, golf or crafting, we have a society for you. We offer regular subsidised theatre tickets and on-site activities.
• On site nursery (subject to availability).
• Relocation Loan.

About HMGCC

We are HMGCC, the engineering specialists at the heart of the UK’s national security. We work with the national security community, UK government, academia, private sector partners and international allies to bring engineering ingenuity to the national security mission, creating tools and technologies that drive us ahead and help to protect the nation. We invest in our people, not only with training but also support throughout your career with us; to allow you to reach your full potential at work, as well as enjoy the work/life balance many aspire to.

To find out more about us and if we’re right for you, please visit our website.