IMS Manager

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Integrated Master Scheduler to join the Defence UK&I Early Lifecycle Directorate, supporting the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP). This role brings clarity and coherence to complex, multi-stakeholder plans, integrating inputs from internal teams, national and international partners, and customers into a single, trusted view of schedule performance.

As the programme scheduling Subject Matter Expert, you will enable confident decision-making, drive continuous improvement in planning capability, and play a key role in delivering a programme central to the future of Defence capability for decades to come.

Please note this role is subject to UK Security Clearance SC minimum.

What you will be doing:

• Act as the recognised Subject Matter Expert for integrated scheduling, setting and maintaining standards for planning processes, data quality, skills, and toolsets across the programme.
• Integrate delivery plans from internal teams, international and national partners, and customers into a single, coherent Integrated Master Schedule, ensuring clarity of dependencies, integration points, and the critical path.
• Govern the planning cycle including change control, ensuring disciplined execution, compliance, and alignment to programme and contractual requirements.
• Provide clear, actionable insight into schedule performance, risk, and forecast, enabling effective decision-making, issue resolution, and stakeholder alignment at all levels.
• Drive continuous improvement of planning capability and outcomes, balancing short-term delivery (perform) with longer-term maturity, efficiency, and resilience of the scheduling function (transform).

Position requirements:

• Experience working within project or programme environments, with accountability for planning against quality, time, cost, and performance objectives.
• Proven experience with Integrated Master Schedules and an understanding of schedule performance, forecasting, and earned value or equivalent control methodologies.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence internal teams, partners, and customers across organisational and geographical boundaries.
• Sound working knowledge of planning processes, data, and scheduling tools, with the credibility to operate as a trusted advisor to project and planning practitioners.
• Collaborative, adaptable team player able to bring together cross-functional contributors in a complex delivery environment.

Preferred qualifications:

• Professional membership of, or progress toward membership of, a recognised project management body (e.g. APM, PMI).
• Experience contributing to or delivering multiple stages of a project lifecycle, with exposure to change control and governance in a regulated environment.
• Exposure to adjacent disciplines such as commercial, procurement, engineering management, or finance, supporting effective integration across the programme.
• Experience working with national or international partners and customers within complex programme or matrix organisations.

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