Principal Project Manager Programme Delivery Manager – Mission Systems Engineering (Contract)
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Job Summary
At Rowden we design and integrate mission critical technology for Defence and National Security.
Our delivery approach is straightforward: be transparent stay practical and focus on outcomes that make a real difference. After several years of successfully delivering and fielding critical systems were now moving into the next phase of scaled delivery and this role will be key to making that happen.
Our delivery approach is straightforward: be transparent stay practical and focus on outcomes that make a real difference. After several years of successfully delivering and fielding critical systems were now moving into the next phase of scaled delivery and this role will be key to making that happen.
We are seeking an experienced delivery-focused Project/Programme Manager to play a pivotal role in the leadership delivery and governance of a complex systems integration programme. This role requires an individual who is highly self-directed exceptionally proactive and comfortable operating at pace in a dynamic and complex stakeholder environment.
This role is for a delivery-focused project/programme leader who thrives in complexity and ambiguity. This role is not for someone who requires tightly defined tasks or close direction to operate effectively.
Youll be joining a high-impact team working with passionate colleagues to deliver a step change in capability for our customer. The role offers the chance to see the direct impact of your work collaborating closely with end users to solve real problems.
Where youll work
Where youll work
While this role will be based predominantly in Bristol there will be an expectation to travel to Customer sites and other partners within the UK as required. This could be up to a couple of times a week. There may also be a requirement for infrequent overseas travel as part of the programme.
Due to the nature of this role and the sensitivity of the work involved applicants must hold active SC Clearance with DV being desirable. This contract is inside IR35.
Key areas of responsibility
What youll be doing
- Own the day-to-day delivery of a complex systems integration programme ensuring progress against agreed milestones budgets and outcomes. This is not a helicopter role youll be getting stuck in with your team to ensure delivery is successful.
- Own contract scope and manage the commercial landscape across the programme. Your team will look to you to ensure we are operating within the commercial boundaries whilst maximising delivery impact.
- Translate high-level programme outcomes into actionable delivery plans workstreams and outputs whilst identifying and communicating both internal and external dependencies.
- Drive alignment across business engineering and third-party delivery teams with differing priorities and perspectives managing interdependencies.
- Anticipate and identify delivery risks and issues early proactively shaping mitigation strategies rather than reacting late.
- Establish and run effective programme governance including steering forums status reporting RAID management and decision tracking.
- Produce clear concise and decision-oriented reporting for senior stakeholders and sponsors.
- Maintain strong financial and delivery discipline ensuring scope cost and timelines are actively controlled.
- Organise and mobilise busy senior stakeholders ensuring the right conversations happen at the right time.
- Escalate issues concerns and risks to the appropriate level at the right time. This includes knowing when to ask for direction and guidance.
- Act as a trusted delivery partner to sponsors providing clear recommendations and honest assessments of progress and risk.
- Bring structure to ambiguity and create clarity where requirements ownership or sequencing are not yet fully defined.
- Push momentum challenge inertia and keep delivery moving forward in complex environments.
Key skills experience and behaviours
Core Experience
- Youll have significant experience delivering complex technology or systems integration projects or programmes preferably within Defence / NS
- Youll have demonstrable programme management capability beyond single-stream project delivery with an expectation of leading multi-year multi-million pound projects / programmes.
- Youll have experience operating within formal governance frameworks while still enabling pace and pragmatism.
- A proven track record of coordinating across multiple stakeholders teams and vendors.
- Proven experience of leading multi-disciplined technical teams including systems engineers software engineers infrastructure engineers alongside safety and security experts.
You may have initiated designed governed and led:
- Large-scale complex systems design and integrations or digital platform transformations
- Data cloud or infrastructure modernisation or delivery projects/programmes
- Technology integration or business transformation initiatives in a complex stakeholder environment
- Projects / programmes in multi-vendor or outsourced procurement / delivery environments
- Complex multi-year / multi-million-pound projects / programmes within Defence or other similar government led organisations.
Who you might be
Youll be comfortable in environments where requirements evolve and adapt. Bringing your experts together to make informed decisions should be your natural MO.
You are highly organised with strong attention to detail without losing sight of the bigger picture. Youre an exceptional communicator and you can distil complexity into clear actionable messages.
You have confidence to engage and influence your stakeholders with a focus on building and maintaining strong strategic relationships.
While you thrive as a member of a team you do need to be comfortable operating autonomously and taking ownership of delivery. To do this youll be a strong problem-solver who anticipates issues rather than escalates when its too late.
Weve outlined what an ideal candidate looks like but we dont expect you to meet every requirement. If this role excites you and you bring most of the experience were looking for wed still encourage you to apply.
Working at Rowden
We are committed to building a flexible inclusive and enabling company. Our aim is to create a diverse team of talented people with unique skills experience and backgrounds so please apply and come as you are!
We also recognise the importance of flexible working and support this wherever we can. We typically operate a flexible hybrid-working model with an average 3 days in the office each week (dependent on the role). We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility part-time working requirements and/or workplace adjustments with all our applicants.
Rowden is a Disability Confident Committed company and we actively encourage people with disabilities and health conditions to apply for our roles. Please let us know your requirements early on so that we can make sure you have everything you need up front to help make the recruitment process and experience as easy as possible.
Finally if you feel that you dont meet all the criteria included above but have transferable skills and relevant experience wed still love to hear from you!
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About Company
Rowden designs and builds systems, infrastructure, and applications to deliver mission advantage to those working to protect the security of the UK and its allies. We are setting a new standard in government technology provision: hyper-efficient engineering, better customer relationsh ... View more
