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Job title: Senior Project Manager

Location: Crawley, West Sussex but working from home / hybrid options available

Are you looking for an opportunity to work in a rapidly expanding business unit with great scope for progression? This exciting role will be managing projects that are developing world-leading technology on the Type31 Frigates. With a pipeline of years’ worth of business, this role also offers a strong level of security for the long term.

We are looking for someone with strong leadership, professional project management expertise, excellent stakeholder management, team building skills, and a proactive approach to identifying and managing risks and opportunities.

Key responsibilities:

• Leadership and management – motivating and supporting the Project Team
• Managing stakeholders, in particular customer and supplier relationships
• Defining Project Execution Strategies and leading the creation of Project Baselines and structures through the bid phase of the lifecycle – including requirements capture, PBS/WBS/OBS, work package definition, estimating, risk and opportunity analysis and creation of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
• Ensuring that the project maintains a robust baseline throughout the lifecycle, and that forecasts are accurate
• Ensuring that appropriate KPIs are established and controlled for Project outcomes
• Management of the Project Cash profile, ensuring timely invoicing of the customer and addressing any overdue payments

What are we looking for?

• Proven project management experience, leading multi-disciplinary teams, ideally within the defence (or related) industry sector
• Complex system management experience
• Ideally experience managing multi-national projects

Core Benefits: Competitive Salary plus bonus, private healthcare, 201 hours holiday (plus bank holidays), 1x company day, opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata), 24 hours volunteering paid for, pension, maternity/paternity leave.

Security Clearance statement

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. This vacancy requires full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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