Capital Project & Transformation Leadership Senior Manager - Defence in Manchester

About the role: Our Capital Project & Transformation Leadership (CPTL) team consists of a range of talented multi-disciplined professionals who have a background in delivery of large-scale transformation programmes and capital projects across multiple sectors including: Aerospace, Defence, Energy, Utilities & Resources, Finance, Government & Healthcare, Infrastructure, Insurance and Asset & Wealth Management, and Transport. We support our clients in leading their people and organisations through major transformative or complex change or supporting the leadership of major capital projects and programmes.

Leadership requires structure, discipline, consistency and control and CPTL brings all that together, securing optimum value from transformation programmes, projects or business and provides the expertise our clients require to navigate challenging, complex situations. The UK Defence sector is undergoing a major transformation over the next 5-10 years, across all branches of the armed services, Ministry of Defence and associated agencies and private sector industry, with an underlying shift towards Defence as a strategic industrial system – one that must simultaneously generate military readiness, sovereign resilience, innovation and UK economic value. We are therefore seeking to expand our CPTL team to serve this growth sector.

Our teams help clients throughout all stages of a transformation and investment cycle:

• Strategy, Planning & Mobilisation: Helping clients define the right investments, operating models, governance structures, and delivery roadmaps to successfully launch complex transformation and capital programmes.
• Delivery: Delivering complex transformation and capital programmes through effective leadership, governance, PMO, controls, and execution support to achieve sustainable outcomes.
• Performance: Improving commercial outcomes, supplier performance, programme efficiency, and value realisation across major investments and transformation initiatives.
• Real Asset Performance & Lifecycle Management: Supporting clients to maximise value from assets through improved planning, maintenance, operations, field service, and lifecycle optimisation.
• Review & Recovery: Providing independent challenge, assurance, recovery support, and investigations to improve confidence and outcomes across complex programmes and transformations.

What your days will look like:

• Proactively assist in the management of several clients, while reporting to Directors and above.
• Train and lead staff.
• Establish effective working relationships directly with clients.
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen.
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues.
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients.
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand.

This role is for you if you have:

• Confident communicator and able to deliver compelling messages with impact to a wide variety of audiences to influence an outcome.
• Extensive leadership experience and has a strong desire to coach others within their team.
• Exceptional technical aptitude and analytical skills, and is able to translate complex issues to support the creation and delivery of clear and understandable client solutions.
• Passionate about embracing new technology and leading industry in progressing in new ways of working through adoption and adaption of technology such as Artificial Intelligence.
• Passionate about delivery of capital and transformation projects and has a strong desire to succeed by learning from colleagues and creating collaborative relationships at all levels.
• Strong academic and industry background and currently holds a senior position within their organisation.
• Demonstrated interest in pursuing continued learning and professional development.
• Strong commercial background with experience in managing contracts, supply chain management, procurement, commercial management and/or commercial and contract negotiations.
• Open to travel, both nationally and internationally.
• If not held already, willing to obtain appropriate required levels of security clearance.

What you’ll receive from us: No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions. We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.