Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities

• This is an exciting role, enabling the business to face in to new areas of the market, such as the Digital Targeting Web, at pace.
• Support delivery technology exploitation projects, maintaining control of scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, and dependencies to meet Future Programmes objectives. These will be a mixture of small PV projects, and customer funded R&D.
• Develop and manage integrated delivery plans, monitoring milestones and proactively resolving delivery issues through appropriate governance.
• Act as the delivery focal point across multiple LoBs, managing interfaces, dependencies, and alignment with senior engineering and business stakeholders.
• Apply robust governance, reporting, and control, including LCM compliance, financial tracking, forecasting, assurance, and change control.
• Drive continuous improvement, capturing lessons learned, applying best practice project management, and supporting delivery maturity growth.

Requirements

• To succeed in this role, you will bring a proven track record in project management and a strong ability to unite and motivate cross-functional (and LoB) teams towards a common goal.
• Essential skills and experience include:
• Demonstrated experience in project management, ideally within complex engineering or defence environments.
• Ability to lead, influence, and federate diverse cross-functional teams.
• Strong capability in generating and executing data-driven plans that deliver measurable benefits.
• It would be nice if you have:
• Knowledge and understanding of the digital defence domain.
• Exposure to defence, aerospace, or future capability environments
• Understanding of early‑to‑mid lifecycle phases (concept, maturation, demonstration)
• APM PMQ (or equivalent), or working towards
• Experience of Software Product Management and/or delivery of "Platform/Software as a Service"
• The ability to undertake frequent UK nationwide travel to Leonardo UK sites, and key partner/subcontractor sites
• This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.
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• Why join us
• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance : All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Never Stop Learning : Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Tailored Perks : Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
• Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please

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Additional Information

Job Description: Salary - £60k to £75k Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

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