Project Manager
// Role Summary
Join QinetiQ at our Farnborough HQ as a Project Manager within the UK Defence function, leading the delivery of standard or complex projects within the Land & Weapons team and working with cutting-edge technology.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead the full project management lifecycle from planning to execution.
- Manage project planning, budget updates, customer/supplier meetings, and risk/issue management.
- Deliver project outputs to agreed baselines and maintain financial and resource forecasts.
- Ensure accurate data entry and maintenance within SAP CRM for opportunities.
- Requires 2-4 years of project leadership experience and experience delivering to 3 different customers.
- Industry-recognised project management qualification (Prince2, AMP, PMP) is essential.
// Role Specification
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Project Manager at our Farnborough HQ, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.
The Role
As a Project Manager in our UK Defence function you will be part of the Land & Weapons team where you will lead the delivery of one or more standard or complex projects.
Day to day, you will hold responsibility for the full project management lifecycle from planning through to execution on a variety of projects with a broad scope over project planning, budget updates, customer and supplier meetings, risk and issue management and cost forecasting.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Development and maintenance of positive engagement with project customers, partners and suppliers
- Delivery of the project outputs, to agreed baseline
- Maintenance of forecasts (both financial and resource demand signal) for sales and delivery which reflects the up-to-date expectations for the work
- Ensuring correct entry of data onto SAP CRM relating to your opportunities, and maintain this data to reflect any changes in key inputs including Order Value, Order Intake Scenario, (Low, Base, High, Excluded), Bid Due date, Closing Date, Sales Stage, Margin, Revenue Profile and up to date notes
Essential experience of the Project Manager:
- Experience gained, typically rather than necessarily, between 2-4 years of leading a business, projects, programmes, portfolios or P3 function and successfully delivering projects
- Experience delivering projects to 3 different customers
Essential qualifications for the Project Manager:
- Industry recognised qualification such as Prince2, AMP, PMP
We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
This role is 37 hours per week based at our Farnborough site with a minimum average site attendance of three days per week.
Farnborough
At our Farnborough site exciting work takes place at our state-of-the-art facility, with high-energy laser technologies, our 5m pressurised wind tunnel which has a simulation capability that is unique in the UK and our large research and development projects is a real hub of creativity, research and innovation. Join our talented teams of Engineers, IT & Cyber Specialists, Project Managers, Group Functions Teams and many more to provide future defences in the UK.
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