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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)•