Salary
£60k to £75k
Role Overview
Senior Project Manager responsible for delivering technology exploitation projects within the Future Programmes area of the FCAS sector, focusing on transitioning and exploiting existing technologies and investments to meet evolving customer and market needs. The role coordinates delivery activity across multiple Lines of Business and aims to generate new revenue streams by converting future capability into customer‑relevant outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Support technology exploitation projects, maintaining control of scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, and dependencies to meet Future Programmes objectives.
- 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.
Qualifications
Essential
- 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.
Nice to 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.”
- Willingness and ability to undertake frequent UK nationwide travel to Leonardo UK sites and key partner/subcontractor sites.
Security Clearance
This role is subject to pre‑employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). Additional personnel security controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, potentially requiring eligibility for the Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).
Benefits
- Generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi‑days each year.
- Benefits from an award‑winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
- Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee‑led networks championing inclusion and diversity.
- Eligibility for a bonus scheme for employees at management level and below.
- Free access to thousands of online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
- Referral programme offering a financial reward.
- Annual flexible benefits allowance of up to £500 for private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships, and more.
- Flexible working with hybrid options; part‑time arrangements may be discussed for this role.
Employment Details
Contract type: PermanentHybrid working: Hybrid
Primary location: GB – Luton – Cap. Green 300
Additional locations: GB – Basildon, GB – Edinburgh, GB – Lincoln, GB – London, GB – Newcastle, GB – Southampton
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