Deputy Programme Manager

Location: This is a Hybrid working role. Whiteley, Hampshire

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

Shape the Future of Aviation

At Leidos, we're delivering some of the most complex and critical programmes within the aviation sector. We're looking for a Deputy Programme Manager to play a key leadership role in a major systems integration programme, helping to deliver innovative solutions that make a real impact.

Working alongside the Programme Manager, you'll provide strategic direction, operational leadership, and oversight across a large, multidisciplinary programme. This role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced Deputy Programme Manager, Programme Manager, or Senior Project Manager who enjoys leading teams, managing complexity, and driving successful outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

• Partner with the Programme Manager to provide leadership, guidance, and direction across the programme.
• Support the successful delivery of complex systems integration activities, ensuring quality, performance, and contractual commitments are achieved.
• Drive effective programme governance, including risk, issue, dependency, and change management.
• Build strong relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and internal teams to ensure successful collaboration.
• Monitor programme performance, including schedules, budgets, forecasting, and reporting.
• Help create an inclusive, high-performing culture where teams can deliver their best work.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to the long-term success of the programme.

What We're Looking For

We're interested in people who can demonstrate many of the following:

• Experience leading or supporting large, complex programmes or projects within systems integration, technology, engineering, aviation, defence, transportation, or similar industries.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across diverse teams and organisations.
• Experience managing programme risks, dependencies, governance, and delivery performance.
• Commercial and financial awareness, including budgeting, forecasting, and programme reporting.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to present information clearly to a variety of audiences.
• A collaborative leadership style that enables teams to achieve shared goals.

Desirable Experience

While not essential, the following would be beneficial:

• Experience delivering large-scale systems integration programmes within the aviation sector.
• Understanding of complex contractual and regulatory environments.
• Experience working with government, defence, or safety-critical customers.
• Professional programme or project management qualifications (e.g., MSP, PRINCE2, PMP, APM).
• Experience leading geographically dispersed or multidisciplinary teams.

This role is based in Whiteley, Hampshire, with opportunities for hybrid working. Appointment is subject to the successful candidate holding, or being eligible to obtain, UK Security Check (SC) clearance.

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.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail.