Project Manager

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Role overview:

The Project Manager will lead the day-to-day management and control of assigned ESCS Phase 2 workstreams or capability areas, ensuring delivery remains aligned to the integrated programme plan, approved budget, resource profile and governance requirements. Working under the direction of the ESCS Programme Lead or Programme Manager, the role will provide clear ownership of planning, finances, resources, risks, dependencies, suppliers and stakeholder reporting for the assigned scope.

The role you will play:

• Own delivery management for one or more defined ESCS workstreams, capability teams or cross-cutting delivery areas.
• Convert programme objectives into controlled workstream plans, forecasts, actions and measurable outcomes.
• Provide accurate delivery, financial and resource information into the integrated ESCS programme position.
• Work alongside Scrum Masters and technical leads, with the Project Manager owning project control while Scrum Masters focus on agile team effectiveness and delivery flow.

Primary responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain and control detailed workstream plans, milestones, dependencies, assumptions and acceptance activities.
• Manage assigned scope, change, risks, issues, opportunities, actions and decisions, escalating material matters through programme governance.
• Own the workstream financial position, including budget tracking, forecast updates, actuals review, variance analysis and corrective actions.
• Maintain resource demand, capacity and allocation forecasts; identify gaps and support recruitment, onboarding and mobilisation.
• Coordinate engineers, analysts, testers, suppliers and other contributors to ensure clear ownership and timely delivery of outputs.
• Prepare concise evidence-based updates for programme governance, including progress, forecast, financial position, resource position, risks and decisions required. 
• Manage cross-team and external dependencies and ensure they are reflected in the integrated programme plan.
• Support supplier planning, deliverable tracking, commercial inputs and acceptance evidence for assigned scope.
• Work with the Chief Engineer and technical leads to ensure technical dependencies, estimates and assurance activities are incorporated into plans.
• Work with Scrum Masters to align sprint or iteration delivery with milestones, dependencies, governance commitments and release objectives.
• Maintain complete, current and auditable project records, including plans, RAID, forecasts, decisions, actions and approvals.
• Support benefits tracking, transition readiness, service acceptance and lessons learned for assigned capabilities.

Required skills and capabilities:

• Project management and project controls
• Integrated planning, scheduling and dependency management
• Financial management, forecasting and variance analysis
• Resource and capacity planning
• Risk, issue, opportunity and change management
• Governance reporting and executive communication
• Stakeholder, supplier and multidisciplinary team coordination
• Scope, deliverable and acceptance management
• Agile, hybrid and structured delivery approaches
• Commercial awareness and evidence-based decision-making
• Mobilisation, recruitment and onboarding coordination
• Benefits, transition and operational readiness awareness

Required experience:

• Project management responsibility for a technology-enabled change project or a substantial workstream within a larger programme.
• Demonstrable experience managing plans, finances, resources, risks, issues, dependencies and governance information.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and holding delivery owners to account for agreed outputs.
• Experience producing clear status, forecast and decision information for senior stakeholders.
• Experience working in an agile or hybrid environment and aligning iterative team delivery with project milestones and controls.
• Experience identifying delivery variances and implementing proportionate recovery actions.

Desired experience:

• Enterprise SaaS, ERP, procurement, supply chain or systems integration delivery.
• Multi-team or multi-supplier technology programmes.
• Recruitment, mobilisation and resource ramp-up for a significant delivery organisation.
• Cloud, data, application integration or digital transformation projects.
• Public sector, defence or security-conscious delivery environments.
• APM, PRINCE2, PMQ, SAFe or equivalent project management accreditation.

Clearance requirements:

• SC required to start
• SC required for the role

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Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...

What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
•    Contributory Pension Scheme
•    Private Medical Insurance
•    33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
•    Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)

•    Flexible Working Scheme

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.          

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

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Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.