Project Manager
5 days ago
Bristol
Description Programme Name: LCST Location: Bristol, UK Are you ready for your next career challenge?.. Role Overview: We are seeking a motivated and capable Project Manager to operate within the LCST contract, working in close partnership with the Senior Programme Manager to support delivery across a complex, multi-functional environment. This role is responsible for driving the successful delivery of projects and workstreams, including scheduling, change management, and the integration of new business activity. You will contribute to ensuring delivery alignment with programme objectives, contractual commitments, and operational priorities. This is a full-time, permanent position requiring strong organisational skills, delivery discipline, and the ability to operate effectively in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Duties and Responsibilities: • Lead delivery of projects and workstreams, ensuring alignment to defined objectives, contractual commitments, and organisational priorities., • Support and maintain delivery governance, including controls across scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality., • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, including internal resources, suppliers, and third-party vendors, to support integrated delivery., • Work with technical and non-technical leads to ensure delivery consistency and manage dependencies., • Build and maintain stakeholder relationships, providing clear and consistent communication and supporting issue resolution where required., • Define and manage project scope, objectives, and success criteria, ensuring alignment and traceability throughout the lifecycle., • Support resource planning and allocation, ensuring effective utilisation in line with delivery requirements., • Manage change control processes, assessing impact on scope, schedule, cost, and risk., • Proactively manage risks and issues, ensuring they are identified, mitigated, and tracked in line with governance standards., • Deliver to agreed time, cost, and quality baselines, supporting financial tracking and reporting (forecasting, EAC, variance)., • Support supplier and partner performance, ensuring alignment to delivery objectives and agreed outcomes., • Produce and maintain project artefacts, including schedules, RAID logs, financial tracking, and reporting packs., • Escalate delivery challenges as required, supporting resolution while maintaining delivery momentum., • Contribute to continuous improvement and the adoption of best practice across project management disciplines Skills Required: • Proven experience delivering projects, working to defined scope, schedule, and financial targets, • Experience in project management, with the ability to operate effectively at delivery level within a wider programme environment, • Good understanding of delivery methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches, • Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate and influence across internal and external teams, • Experience working in multi-functional environments, including customer, supplier, and internal stakeholders, • Understanding of financial controls, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost management, • Ability to engage with both technical and non-technical teams to support delivery outcomes, • Strong communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly and concisely, • Good organisational skills and attention to detail, with a focus on governance and delivery discipline, • Professional, proactive approach with a strong sense of accountability, • Competent in project management tools and Microsoft Office suite Skills Desired: • Recognised Project Management qualification (e.g. APM PMQ or equivalent), • Strong project delivery experience, • Background in logistics, software, engineering, or technical delivery environments Clearance Requirements: • BPSS pre-screening required to start 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: The _ for the UK Ministry of Defence is a critical effort to enhance and improve the UK’s defence supply chain. The programme provides essential services such as storage and distribution for the MOD's materiel, including a global freight service and the procurement and inventory management of 70,000 commodity NATO Stock Number (NSNs). Working together as Team Leidos we are helping to transform the UK's defence supply chain by providing an integration of a complex mixture of services, at low risk, using a modern suite of systems that will deliver one version of the truth. For the first time, the MOD will see the whole picture, as it is happening. 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. For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above. £44,700.00-£57,300.00 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. About Leidos Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit _. Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at _. Securing Your Data Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at _. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the _. Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.
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