Business Transformation Programme Manager - SC cleared

The location of the role is Bristol (hybrid working – typically 1-2 days onsite per week). The duration of the contract is 6 months. The pay rate on offer is £94 - £109 per hour (via Umbrella agency - inside IR35). Candidates require Active SC clearance, or be willing and eligible to go through the process.

Role Summary: Mission Systems is transforming, and we need you to support our drive for growth and business change, leading our teams through exciting and sometimes challenging situations. You’ll be a Programme Manager within our growing internal transformation team, initially leading the complex integration of SAP across our Mission Systems business, as part of a company-wide transformation programme. Reporting to our Director of Operational Excellence, this role will be centred around transformation and business change, providing leadership and strategic management focused on increasing sector wide operational effectiveness. You’ll play a key role in building strong relationships across both our sector and wider Group teams as part of implementing our ambitious strategy. You’ll drive and control change and the role will provide high levels of visibility and responsibility to deliver.

Key accountabilities of the role:

• Providing operational and strategic management of business change initiatives, ensuring teams understand and deliver against cost, time and quality requirements and remain coordinated in their approach to delivering the agreed scope of work, taking business priorities and dependencies into account.
• Providing end-to-end delivery throughout the project lifecycle, you’ll also be responsible for supporting with requirement capture, scoping, technical and delivery solutions and the generation of business cases and proposal documents.
• Identification, planning and management of multiple project interdependencies, ensuring successful delivery and focus on key activities.
• Effective management of stakeholders and building of strong relationships across a matrix organisation.
• Providing effective risk management to ensure that the business’ risk exposure is kept to a minimum and is effectively managed throughout the project.
• Ensuring that effective change management is applied, balancing flexibility of changing requirements with the need to deliver to budget and timescales.
• Defining acceptance criteria for deliverables and benefits to be realised.
• Identifying, reviewing and applying lessons learnt as part of continuous improvement for future requirements.
• Plan and secure resource for current and future projects, documenting demand and in alignment with effort required to deliver projects.
• Reviewing and presentation of management information including regular performance reviews and Project Boards.

Key skills and experience:

• Considerable experience in delivery of transformation programmes within a relevant complex project environment (a background in SAP deployment/usage would be desirable).
• Experience of using both agile and waterfall methodologies is highly desirable, along with understanding the utilisation of effective project controls.
• Experience in understanding and controlling complex project interdependencies.
• Direct line management experience as well as leadership in a matrix environment.
• Experience working with and presenting to senior stakeholders.
• APM PMQ, Agile practitioner, Chartered project manager status or equivalent (advantageous).

Skills and attributes:

• Passion for the business – driving short- and longer-term change and/or growth throughout the business.
• Relationship management – building effective working relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers where appropriate.
• Ability to influence and prioritise the inputs of multiple stakeholders.
• Significant project Management expertise – especially in requirements capture, risk and performance management.
• Business acumen and consultative selling skills – seen by stakeholders as a trusted advisor.
• Coaching and leadership – providing leadership and influence in a matrix organisation to direct line reports and the wider team and fulfilment members from across the business.
• Facilitation – engaging a cross section of functional representatives from stakeholder communities; you’re able to operate at all levels in and across the organisations and motivate teams.
• Technical – a background in, or a general understanding business transformation.
• Championing company principles and a role model for project management best practices.
• Communication - ability to identify and implement communication plans, providing effective and timely communication across the business and within the stakeholder community.