Job Title:  Head of Portfolio - Intelligence Solutions ( GG15 )

Job Title:  Head of Portfolio - Intelligence Solutions

Global Grade:  GG15

Location:  Farnborough or Malvern

Role Type:  Permanent – Full Time

Role ID:  19970

Role Purpose

To lead the growth of the Intelligence Solutions business by creating a cross-cutting capability and QQ business alignment to ISTAR and complex information systems integration: supporting and developing our people, and creating impactful cross-cutting offerings for our customers in the MOD.

Reporting to the Managing Director, Digital Intelligence, you will be accountable for managing on-contract delivery, shaping the digital growth strategy, as well as identifying and capturing new opportunities in line with the growth strategy. You will need to create links and develop relationships across QQ businesses, functions and subsidiaries to ensure that the Intelligence Solutions capability supports the business and drives coherent offerings.

This role has the opportunity to evolve QQ’s approach to ISTAR for MOD, in line with their defence strategy, being central and influential to investment and opportunity decision making, and delivering at pace in a rapidly evolving environment, leveraging the broader QQ expertise.

Key Accountabilities

• Leading and growing the Intelligence Solutions business to >£60m (revenue) by FY30, with project margins > 12%
• Working with QQ functions (HR, Technical, PMO etc.) and external suppliers to develop and harness the necessary skills needed to deliver business to our customers
• Working with technical and BD to develop the Intelligence Solutions strategy to support pipeline growth to 3x revenue for qualified opportunities
• Working across the QQ organisation to maintain existing and develop new customer relationships and increase the importance of QQ to our customers, executing capture plans to deliver further strategic programmes
• Working with other Integreted Delivery Teams, business units and sectors to join up QQ capability and offerings for the benefit of our customers and other QQ businesses
• Working with Ops and other functions to ensure that the business has the facilities and services it needs to deliver for our customers
• Applying robust governance to the IDT’s delivery, ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction, compliance, managing risk (commercial, delivery) and ensuring best practice is applied to safety and security practices
• Delivery of the ISP including all yearly financial targets for orders, revenue, margin, operating profit and cash
• Develop appropriate investment plans to build the required capabilities to achieve the business vision
• Annual production of a 5-year Order Intake Scenario (OIS) aligned to the ISP, and a detailed plan to deliver the 1st year of the OIS
• Maintenance of up-to-date forecasts (both financial and resource demand) for all IDT sales, contracted customer work and approved investment funding
• Developing the team to its full potential via talent and succession planning, PeakOn engagement, training, coaching, mentoring and strong performance management. Leading the embedding of improvements in the P3M capabilities within the IDT
• Ensuring IDT members operate in line with the Business Management System and functional management requirements; and have appropriate personal goals recorded and progressed
• Role-modelling senior leadership behaviour across all elements of the Enterprise Leadership framework, with particular focus on safety, security and ESG
• Responsibility for teams in Malvern/Bristol/Farnborough and deployed at our customer’s locations

Key Capabilities/Knowledge

• Strategic business mind-set – able to understand the combination of market, customer, competition and the UKI capability needs, to build a strategy to deliver profitable growth
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability, around delivering P&L goals and all aspects of delivery to our customers
• Strong people leadership, collaboration, commercial and financial skills - sufficient to run a full P&L in a complex set of markets and drawing on skills from across QinetiQ and partner organisations
• Results-oriented – not simply doing the tasks, but also focusing on achieving the required outcomes (including forecasting)
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Provenance in building and developing cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes
• Market awareness – understanding the market in which the business operates, including competition, suppliers, customer base and the regulatory environment
• People and Organisation – developing the long-term skills and capabilities required of our P3M, Business Winning and Technical teams, to deliver and grow the IDT’s business
• Ability to work autonomously, navigate complex organisations successfully, and self-grow the role to meet the business’ strategic direction
• Security awareness – UK MOD DV clearance (or the ability to secure it) is required

Experience & Qualifications

• Financial literacy to the extent of being able to run a P&L effectively
• Significant team leadership experience, coupled with strong communication skills
• Experience in developing and executing strategic business plans, driven by well-understood customer needs
• Ability to engage credibly in technical/operational discussion around problems and solutions with customers and team members
• Evidence of positive engagement with, and management of, senior customers and other senior stakeholders
• Credible experience and understanding of how running a product-focused IDT might different from running other IDTs

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.

As a QinetiQ employee, 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. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.  www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq

Our Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels value, heard and supported.  If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

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