Head of Project Management in London

Global Grade: GG15

Location: Farnborough, Salisbury, Portsmouth, or Malvern with three days per week on-site

Role Type: 12 month fixed-term contract – Full Time

Role ID: 20077

Role Purpose

Responsible and accountable for providing strategic leadership for Project Management, setting the direction for people, process and tools. Ensuring strategic initiatives are prioritised and drive enterprise best practice to provide consistent and high-performance delivery. Strategic thinker who drives excellence across the project management community, enabling the company to meet its growth ambition.

Key Accountabilities

• Strategic Leadership – Lead the strategic development of Project Management, ensuring alignment with business objectives and long-term organisational priorities. Collaborating and influencing sector/function senior stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.
• Integrated Business Plan – Shape and contribute to the Integrated Business Plan for Project Management, partnering with senior stakeholders, demonstrating an understanding of the market, customers and competition to build a solid strategy for growth for professional development of the long-term skills and capabilities for our P3M professionals.
• Risk Management - Lead and own Performance Portfolio Office (PPO) risks, issues and changes. Implement responses to those risks and respond to issues that affect the PPO. Record and monitor throughout the project lifecycle as per the BMS. Ensuring threats & opportunities are managed in accordance with best practice – overall accountable for using risk information to make informed decisions, escalating to senior leadership where appropriate.
• Performance Goals - Set annual performance goals for P3M professionals to support consistent delivery.
• Evidence-based Decisions - Ensure decisions are evidence-based and timely by embedding robust performance data, insights and review mechanisms, driving a strong, empowered, decision-making culture.
• Resource Capacity Planning/Capability Development - Act as the Functional Owner for Project Management recruitment, partnering with the sectors, functions and Workforce Planning to understand the demand and ensure the right capability is deployed across the business.
• High Performance Culture - Drive a culture of high performance by ensuring early identification and escalation of performance delivery concerns are known and supported by timely interventions.
• Leadership – Build and champion a collaborative, engaged, and high performing project management community aligned to best practice.
• Communication and Engagement - Lead regular communication and engagement across the community to ensure clarity, consistency, and strong alignment to strategic priorities.
• Inclusive Culture - Promote an inclusive culture where individuals feel supported, motivated, and empowered to deliver successful outcomes.
• Change Leadership - Advocate of change leadership by encouraging new ways of working, challenging the status quo and modelling high standards of leadership.

QinetiQ values and behaviours outlined in the Code of Conduct must be acted upon at all times. Acts in a professional manner with our internal and external stakeholders. This involves and not limited to communication, taking creditable action, having a positive attitude and supporting others. Being a visible role model who is accountable, inspires and engages our people to enable a high-performance inclusive culture. Actively support and drive continuous improvement through change management initiatives and supports implementations.

Key Competencies

• Lifecycles
• Reviews
• Assurance
• Supply Chain/Procurement
• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Leadership
• Team Management
• Requirements Management
• Quality Management
• Integrated Planning
• Resource Management
• Resource Capacity Planning
• Budgeting & Cost Control including Performance Management
• Risk & Issue Management
• Change Control
• Capability Development

Experience / Qualifications & Key Capabilities/Knowledge

• ChPP or demonstrate working towards equivalent certification from accredited body.
• Recognised expert in job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.
• Applies in-depth knowledge and experience of project management and or business management.
• Lead and implement project management strategy. Communicate to all relevant stakeholders.
• Track record of developing and implementing new processes, standards and frameworks that will drive delivery excellence and measurable performance improvement.
• Demonstrates capability in solving complex problems, assessing risks and making informed decisions in challenging environments.
• Has in-depth knowledge of lifecycles and recognised as an expert.
• Has typical +10 years experience of working within project teams and leading large teams within project management.
• Proven success in coaching, mentoring and capability. Managing lower level professionals.
• Has extensive experience of using project management tools such as Microsoft Project, SAP, Oracle and Primavera.
• Very strong time management and organisational skills.
• Strategic thinker.
• Thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced and goal driven environment.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential.

Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture. www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Competitive holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.