Programme Manager in Fareham

Location: This is a Hybrid role. Whiteley, Hampshire

Clearance Required: This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance.

We are seeking an experienced Programme Manager to lead the delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder programmes. This is a customer-facing role where you will play a key part in building trusted relationships, aligning customer objectives, and ensuring successful delivery against commercial and operational goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary customer interface, building strong, trusted relationships.
• Lead end-to-end programme delivery across scope, schedule, cost, and risk.
• Drive programme governance, including steering boards and executive reporting.
• Manage multiple projects, workstreams, and dependencies.
• Oversee financial performance, forecasting, and contractual commitments.
• Engage and influence stakeholders across customers, partners, and internal teams.
• Ensure robust risk, issue, and delivery assurance management.
• Support programme growth through change requests, proposals, and bid activity.

Essential Experience

• Proven Programme Manager or Senior Project Manager experience.
• Strong track record in customer-facing, stakeholder-driven environments.
• Experience delivering complex, multi-party programmes.
• Demonstrable expertise in governance, financial management, and risk control.
• Confident engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Degree qualified or equivalent experience.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in regulated, safety-critical, or technical environments.
• Professional certifications (e.g. PMP, Agile).
• Exposure to bids, proposals, or commercial activities.

Skills & Capabilities

• Excellent customer engagement and influencing skills.
• Strong leadership and communication capability.
• Ability to manage complex delivery environments.
• Commercial awareness and financial acumen.
• Effective risk and dependency management.

Working Arrangements

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of 12 days per week onsite, alongside regular travel to customer sites as required. Training will be provided on Leidos proprietary tools and processes where needed.

What we do for you:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays).
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme and much more!).
• Flexi-Time Working.

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & Europe we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.