Agile Programme Manager

Job Title:     Agile Programme Manager

Location:     Boscombe Down, Bristol, Malvern or Farnborough

Package:     Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type:   Full-time / Permanent
Role ID:       SF17387

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as an Agile Programme Manager you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The Role

As an Agile Programme Manager, you will be responsible for leading a cross functional team delivering a high value, complex internal investment programme focussed on the development of a specific software tool to support the management of MOD capability development programmes across the Air, Land and Maritime domains. This Programme has a diverse and complex set of stakeholders, both internally and externally, initiating in the Air domain but broadening through the development lifecycle.

Day-to-day you will:

• Deliver a complex programme totalling of approx. £30M in value (£10m per annum)
• Lead sprints and work with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the programme of work is delivered on time and to budget
• Develop and maintain positive engagement with customers, partners and suppliers
• Ensure programme members operate in line with the Operating
• Lead the improvement of the QinetiQ project and programme management function, as agreed with Integrated Delivery Team Leads and the Performance Excellence team
• Apply governance requirements, including lifecycle, project & independent reviews as appropriate, for foundation sales and delivery work.

This role is full-time, based out of one of our Main Hub sites with adaptive working. There will be a requirement to travel to our Boscombe Down, Salisbury site once a week if based out of another location.

Essential experience of the Agile Programme Manager:

• Demonstrable experience in leading software development, product development and agile programmes.
• Experience dealing with a complex stakeholder map (both internal and external)
• Experience managing programmes with a multi-million pound budget

Qualifications for the Agile Programme Manager:

• Agile PM qualification, or demonstrable Agile experience in industry
    

Please note that all applicants must hold, or be able to achieve for Security Clearance as a minimum.

UKSV National Security Vetting Solution: guidance for applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.