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Project Manager

Leidos, Inc., Bristol

Project Manager

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Leidos, Inc., Bristol

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted 2 days ago, 11 May | Get your application in today.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

Job ref: 11f3802a83d44436ad71116e3015f89b

Location ref: Bristol

Full Job Description

  • Lead delivery of projects and workstreams, ensuring alignment to defined objectives, contractual commitments, and organisational priorities
  • Support and maintain delivery governance, including controls across scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, including internal resources, suppliers, and third-party vendors, to support integrated delivery
  • Work with technical and non-technical leads to ensure delivery consistency and manage dependencies
  • Build and maintain stakeholder relationships, providing clear and consistent communication and supporting issue resolution where required
  • Define and manage project scope, objectives, and success criteria, ensuring alignment and traceability throughout the lifecycle
  • Support resource planning and allocation, ensuring effective utilisation in line with delivery requirements
  • Manage change control processes, assessing impact on scope, schedule, cost, and risk
  • Proactively manage risks and issues, ensuring they are identified, mitigated, and tracked in line with governance standards
  • Deliver to agreed time, cost, and quality baselines, supporting financial tracking and reporting (forecasting, EAC, variance)
  • Support supplier and partner performance, ensuring alignment to delivery objectives and agreed outcomes
  • Produce and maintain project artefacts, including schedules, RAID logs, financial tracking, and reporting packs
  • Escalate delivery challenges as required, supporting resolution while maintaining delivery momentum
  • Contribute to continuous improvement and the adoption of best practice across project management disciplines

    We are seeking a motivated and capable Project Manager to operate within the LCST contract, working in close partnership with the Senior Programme Manager to support delivery across a complex, multi-functional environment.
    • This role is responsible for driving the successful delivery of projects and workstreams, including scheduling, change management, and the integration of new business activity. You will contribute to ensuring delivery alignment with programme objectives, contractual commitments, and operational priorities. This is a full-time, permanent position requiring strong organisational skills, delivery discipline, and the ability to operate effectively in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.,
  • Recognised Project Management qualification (e.g. APM PMQ or equivalent)
  • Strong project delivery experience
  • Proven experience delivering projects, working to defined scope, schedule, and financial targets
  • Experience in project management, with the ability to operate effectively at delivery level within a wider programme environment
  • Good understanding of delivery methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches
  • Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate and influence across internal and external teams
  • Experience working in multi-functional environments, including customer, supplier, and internal stakeholders
  • Understanding of financial controls, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost management
  • Ability to engage with both technical and non-technical teams to support delivery outcomes
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly and concisely
  • Good organisational skills and attention to detail, with a focus on governance and delivery discipline
  • Professional, proactive approach with a strong sense of accountability
    • Skills Desired:
  • Background in logistics, software, engineering, or technical delivery environments

    The Logistics Commodities & Services Transformation (LCST) Programme (http://https/www.leidos.com/company/global/uk-europe/LCST) for the UK Ministry of Defence is a critical effort to enhance and improve the UK's defence supply chain. The programme provides essential services such as storage and distribution for the MOD's materiel, including a global freight service and the procurement and inventory management of 70,000 commodity NATO Stock Number (NSNs).
    • Working together as Team Leidos we are helping to transform the UK's defence supply chain by providing an integration of a complex mixture of services, at low risk, using a modern suite of systems that will deliver one version of the truth. For the first time, the MOD will see the whole picture, as it is happening. What Makes Us Different: Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change. Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours. People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing . We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future. If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares., Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .

    Clearance Requirements:
  • BPSS pre-screening required to start
    • Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction... What we do for you: At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance. We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
  • Contributory Pension Scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
  • Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
  • Flexible Working Scheme, Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits .

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