Senior Change Manager

Location: This is a Hybrid role. Whiteley, Hampshire

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

Join our UK Team who are committed to a Mission. Leidos is seeking an experienced Senior Change Manager to join the Programme Management Office (PMO) of a major programme. This role is pivotal in ensuring effective change control across a complex and dynamic environment, providing oversight of all programme-level changes and their commercial, contractual and delivery impacts.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the Change Control Process for the Programme and requires experience working in complex Programme environments, strong commercial awareness and exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.

The role:

• Lead and Manage the Programme Change Control Process within the PMO, ensuring robust governance and compliance with Programme standards.
• Chair and coordinate the Change Working Group, ensuring all proposed changes are reviewed, understood and progressed appropriately.
• Oversee and prepare impact assessments, working closely with various subject matter experts to capture full implications across cost, schedule, risk and benefits.
• Engage and influence a diverse set of stakeholders across various disciplines both internally and externally.
• Provide advice and guidance on Change Control best practice, aligned to the contractual terms of the Programme.

What does Leidos need from me?

• Extensive experience in change control and impact assessment within a large, complex programme or portfolio environment.
• Strong commercial awareness, with a solid understanding of contract change control.
• Demonstrable experience of running change control governance forums such as Change Working Groups or Change Boards.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Proficient in project and programme management methodologies.
• Professional certifications in Programme or Change Management.

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.

Pay Range: £73,700.00-£97,000.00. The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.