Main Duties:

The successful candidate will be required to:

• Forge strong relationships with external stakeholders whilst establishing trust and internal relationships to ensure that goals and objectives are clearly communicated, understood and executed.
• Ensure that effective project management practices in accordance with Raytheon UK process is applied and maintained.
• Establish and maintain a governance structure to ensure coordination of work requests including estimations, work proposals, forecasting and internal reporting. As well as reporting progress routinely and by exception into the Raytheon account, including both scheduled and ad-hoc management briefings.
• Effective communication of project status and delivery to respective stakeholders utilising metrics and scheduling tools where necessary. In addition, produce Schedule performance metrics including Schedule variance, Critical Path Analysis and Schedule performance analysis to support the PMO function.
• Identification of project risk, issues and dependencies, seeking resolution before escalation.
• Supporting the Management of the programme’s PMO function helping seek continuous improvements in measuring and reporting delivery progress.
• Interface with the Finance Team to establish and monitor budget authorisations, by ensuring the availability of supporting data enabling collation and analysis of relevant data such as schedule derived ETCs and factored risk cost exposure.
• Build trust and confidence within the team to a level where they will share problems without fear of blame, retribution or being judged whilst also protecting them from outside interruptions and distractions.
• End to end software delivery management and oversight using Agile principles and Scrum focused teams and where necessary help the team apply and understand the same.
• Work with Business Development, Engineering, Commercial and Programme Leads to assess the Task Orders and develop a technical solution to the Customer’s requirements and develop a Customer bid proposal.
• Interpret customer technical requirements and convert them into deliverable solutions whilst effectively managing scope and customer expectations.
• Provide effective support for the team such as removal of blockers that have been escalated and stakeholder decisions are translated to the team.

Essential:

• Have an existing Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance or is capable of achieving such a clearance.
• Strong organisational, leadership, communication and interpersonal skills being a team motivator capable of building strong relationships with peers, customers and suppliers at all levels.
• Demonstrable knowledge working within software development teams that diligently apply Scrum and Agile principles, practices, techniques and methodologies.
• Experienced in the principles of Project/Task based Management, Risk Management, MS Project, Programme Performance Reviews and Cost Account Management.
• Experience of managing multiple projects and programmes in a controlled environment, making best use of recognised methods, e.g. PRINCE2
• Sound knowledge of PMO disciplines and techniques.
• Able to lead and support problem solving of complex issues across functional boundaries, to summarise and identify key concerns and follow through with the development and execution of corrective action plans to resolve issues.
• Sound judgement skills, understanding when to own and brief and when to escalate.
• Able to rapidly assimilate information, culture and process

Desirable:

• Computer Science, Engineering or Business Degree or equivalent qualification.
• Experience working within the Cyber and Intelligence Community.
• Experience working within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment.
• Bid and Proposal Management.
• Knowledge of cost Estimating.
• Member of a relevant Engineering or Project Management Professional institution.
• Able to guide, and provide professional planning assistance to all levels of the Team.
• Understanding of applicable government information assurance policies and controls and how to comply with these.