Project Delivery Manager - Commodities

Working location: Raynesway/ Derby

Rolls-Royce has an excellent opportunity for a Project Delivery Manager to join our Submarines Business in Derby, to support the delivery of our In-Service UK Nuclear Submarine fleet. This role sits within the Services Delivery Business Unit; therefore, the successful candidate will need to have a strong customer management focus, a proven track record in project delivery and the ability to operate in a complex environment within the Submarines enterprise.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount. We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey. We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What We Offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts. Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What You Will Be Doing

• This vacancy is to lead the Commodities team within the In-Service Programmes team and will be responsible for the planning and supply of Mechanical and Electrical material into Naval Stores. This requires close working with the Customer, External Supply Chain teams and the Rolls-Royce production facilities.
• Leading the Delivery of all the project requirements ensuring that the overall project outputs meet these requirements - projects range from technical development projects to product delivery and programme to control account delivery.
• Leading the financial management, including monthly monitoring, Quarterly Forecasts, budgets and estimates to complete.
• Leading on contract/project/control account reviews by supporting the production of management reports. This will be for both internal and external reviews, and cover all aspects of Programmes progress against plan, resource, risk and deliverables.
• Co-ordinating work across the DBUs (Delivery Business Units) alongside the other Programme teams in line with agreed PM controls processes and controlling activities including gated reviews, monitoring, priorities, dependencies, procurement, quality, work authorisation, change control, approvals and stakeholder management.
• Ensuring the Submarines project controls processes are effectively deployed and maintained for all work through the lifecycle of the projects delivery.

Who We’re Looking For

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

You will possess a degree in a relevant engineering or business discipline or have an equivalent level of continuous professional development and experience. You will have Project Management experience, showing an understanding of the project lifecycle, risk management, cost management, planning and programming. The role will involve dealing with customers and stakeholders at all levels and excellent communication skills are therefore a prerequisite. A working knowledge of SAP and/or scheduling tools in relation to project activities is desirable. You will have the ability to work with minimum supervision in order to deliver results and to work in ambiguous situations, whilst working to tight timescales and achieving quality outputs on time. You must have a proactive approach and be a team player. It would be desirable to have APMP or PRINCE 2 qualifications.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Closing date: 23.5.25