Project Manager
// Role Summary
Lead strategically important projects in the cyber domain at QinetiQ's Malvern site, driving innovation and making a tangible difference to UK National Security.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead strategically important projects within the cyber domain.
- Develop and maintain strong customer, partner, and supplier relationships.
- Ensure successful delivery of project outcomes against agreed baselines.
- Manage stakeholders, subcontractors, and internal teams effectively.
- Contribute to overall strategy, business targets, and securing follow-on sales.
- Role involves split working between Malvern site and customer sites.
// Role Specification
Project Manager - Cyber Domain
Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we are creating tomorrow through cutting-edge defence technology and ground-breaking innovations to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Project Manager at our Malvern site and work with leading technology alongside brilliant minds.
As a key member of the Project Management Team, you will lead strategically important projects that make a tangible difference to the UK's National Security. You will have experience or a strong desire to work within the cyber domain, acting as a vital link between customers and QinetiQ offices.
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include the effective management and delivery of projects to agreed baselines, fostering and growing customer relationships, securing associated follow-on sales, supporting major bids, and contributing to overall strategy and business targets.
Your Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain positive engagement with project customers, partners, and suppliers.
- Ensure the successful delivery of project outcomes.
- Maintain forecasts for both financial aspects and resource demand.
- Apply governance requirements, including lifecycle, project, and independent reviews, for sales and delivery work.
- Report progress on all accountabilities to the Business.
Essential Experience:
- A driven and determined individual with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and subcontractors simultaneously, possessing sound communication skills.
- Proven track record in delivering projects, successfully navigating demanding timescales, uncertainty, and risk.
- Experience in managing internal teams and external partnerships to meet contractual requirements.
Essential Qualifications:
- Demonstrable capability to APM PFQ or equivalent.
We value difference and welcome applications from individuals at all career stages who can demonstrate the required experience and a willingness to learn.
This role is 37 hours per week, with time split between our Malvern site and customer sites. The Malvern facility is renowned for its work in electronic warfare, surveillance, and complex system integration, significantly contributing to the UK’s defence capabilities through the development of technologies for military and civilian applications, including sensors, communications, and cyber security.
Why Join QinetiQ?
QinetiQ offers an exciting and rewarding journey as we grow into new markets globally. Our success is driven by our appetite for innovation and the courage to tackle complex challenges. As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique, diverse, and inclusive working environment where collaboration, shared perspectives, and blended disciplines lead to discovering new ways of solving complex problems. Feel valued, authentic, and realise your full potential.
Visit our website to learn more about our workplace culture: www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq
Our Benefits:
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance.
- Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days.
- Options for Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance, and Dental Insurance.
- Employee discount portal offering savings on Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets, and more.
- Proud support for the Armed Forces community, honoured through the Armed Forces Covenant and a Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
- Volunteering opportunities to support charities and local communities.
Our Recruitment Process:
We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process where all candidates feel valued, heard, and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Many roles at QinetiQ require national security vetting. Applicants holding appropriate vetting may be able to transfer it. Certain roles may have additional nationality or previous nationality restrictions.
All applicants for this role must hold DV Clearance and be willing to undergo eDV.
For guidance on UKSV National Security Vetting, please visit: GOV.UK