Description
P3M Director
Programme Name: LCST
Location: There is flexibility around remote working, with potentially 3 days a week in the Emerson’s Green, Bristol office
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The Role:
Team Leidos, led by Leidos Europe Ltd, is honoured to support the UK MOD’s Logistic Commodities & Services Transformation (LCST) programme, a critical effort to enhance and improve the UK’s defence supply chain -providing essential services such as storage and distribution for the MOD's materiel, including a global freight service and procurement and inventory management of food, packed fuels, clothing, medical materiel and general supplies.
Are you a dynamic and professional Programme Director with a desire to lead large complex multi-discipline programmes which deliver innovative IT solutions to our customers? We are looking for an Associate Director Programme Management to join us.
What Will Your role be?:
This role brings real variety including:
- Managing the delivery of large IT programmes across a multitude of Infrastructure, application development, systems integration, application migration, Transition & Transformation
- Communicating and working directly with customers at a senior level to ensure we meet their high standards of project execution
- Single point responsibility for the management of programme budgets and the implementation of programme governance
- Leading, motivating and communicating with your delivery teams to ensure exemplary programme delivery
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Have Line Management responsibility for PMO staff
- Manage and Maintain the LCST Integrated Master Schedule
- Responsible for the collation and reporting of MI around Projects and Programmes
- Liaises with customer PMO team to communicate progress and maintain strong working relationship
- Supports Impact Assessment of new projects or programmes against schedule and labour baseline
- Responsible for collation and reporting of labour baseline to ensure the correct levels of staffing are in place for project execution
- Responsible for ensuring methodologies and tools to support Programme Best Practice
- Mentoring and Coaching of P3M staff (Portfolio, Programme, Project)
- Management of Risks, Issues and Opportunities and related processes
- Promoting the wider public good in all actions, acting in a morally, legally and socially appropriate manner in dealings with all stakeholders and members of project and/or programme and/or portfolio teams and the organisation
- Identifying, addressing and resolving differences between individuals and/or interest groups
- Empowering and inspiring others to deliver successful projects and/or programmes and/or portfolios
- Securing the provision of resources needed for projects and/or programmes from internal and/or external providers
- Agreeing, monitoring and managing contracts for the provision of goods and/or services
- Preparing and maintaining definitions of the requirements of projects and/or programmes and/or portfolios
- Determining the best means of satisfying requirements within the context of project and/or programme and/or portfolio objectives and constraints i.e. developing solutions
- Preparing and maintaining schedules for project and/or programme and/or portfolio activities and events, taking account of dependencies and resource requirements
- Developing, implementing and updating resource allocations plans (other than finance) needed for projects and/or programmes and/or portfolios, taking account of availabilities and scheduling
- Developing and agreeing budgets for projects and/or programmes and/or portfolios and controlling forecast and actual costs against them
- Identifying and monitoring project and/or programme and/or portfolio risks (threats and opportunities), planning and implementing responses to them and responding to other issues that affect projects and/or programmes and/or portfolios
- Developing, maintaining and applying quality management processes for project and/or programme and/or portfolio activities and outputs
- Consolidating and documenting the fundamental components of projects and/or programmes and/or portfolios (scope, schedule, resource requirements, budgets, risks, opportunities and issues, and quality requirements)
Required Skills:
- Experience within a similar role within a large programme
- Substantial experience in P3M
- Strong background in programme management
- Strong Programme Controls (Schedule, Cost, Resource, EVM)
- Membership of Professional Body desirable such as APM
- Use of collaboration tooling (Confluence, Jira, Share point)
- Experience of delivering large complex IT programmes
- Ability to work autonomously, prioritising tasks and activities as business and customer needs change
- Experience of working in a structured, quality environment
- Capability to build multi-discipline programme teams to effectively deliver complex IT solutions
- Experience of managing 3rd party suppliers
- Exposure to pre-sales activity and proposal writing
- Excellent commercial awareness
Clearance Requirements:
- Clearance to Start BPSS
- Clearance for Role SC
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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)•