Project Manager- Defence
Positiv+ Cohort
a day ago
Posted datea day ago
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General ManagementJob category
General ManagementRole Overview
The Project Management Support role is responsible for delivering a portfolio of projects on behalf of the customer, ensuring all work aligns with the customer's end-to-end project management processes. The position supports multiple project teams, adapting to fluctuating demand and providing consistent oversight across planning, delivery, reporting, and operational handover.
Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery & Governance
Planning & Scheduling
Budget & Financial Management
Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement
Performance & Checkpoints
Service Engagement & Delivery Model
Experience & Skills (Preferred)
The Project Management Support role is responsible for delivering a portfolio of projects on behalf of the customer, ensuring all work aligns with the customer's end-to-end project management processes. The position supports multiple project teams, adapting to fluctuating demand and providing consistent oversight across planning, delivery, reporting, and operational handover.
Key Responsibilities
Project Delivery & Governance
- Deliver the customer's roadmap of projects, ensuring adherence to the customer's end-to-end project management framework.
- Consolidate and document all core project elements including scope, schedule, resource requirements, budgets, risks, issues, and quality considerations.
- Coordinate and collaborate with national and international project teams to support harmonised delivery approaches and shared timelines.
Planning & Scheduling
- Prepare, maintain, and update project schedules, ensuring activity dependencies and resource requirements are accurately reflected.
- Develop, implement, and maintain resource allocation plans that align with project portfolio demands and availability.
- Support integration between project outputs and release management deliverables, ensuring a smooth transition into business-as-usual support teams and readiness for production deployment.
Budget & Financial Management
- Manage agreed project budgets including tracking of actuals, forecasting, and supplier timesheet reconciliation.
- Ensure timely, accurate processing of project-related invoicing.
- Provide cost transparency and financial reporting aligned with customer standards.
Reporting & Stakeholder Engagement
- Produce project and programme status reporting for stakeholders at multiple levels of the organisation, following the customer's standards (e.g., JIRA Plans on a Page / POAP).
- Support ongoing communication between internal teams, suppliers, and the customer's Programme Delivery Manager (PDM).
Performance & Checkpoints
- Participate in scheduled project checkpoints to:
- Review supplier performance to date,
- Confirm forward demand planning for engineering or project services,
- Evaluate capability and demand allocations across T&M services or fixed-price work packages,
- Support blended delivery approaches when fixed-price models are not feasible.
Service Engagement & Delivery Model
- Deliver services according to a demand schedule or project plan owned by the customer.
- Adapt to workload fluctuations based on project team requirements and forecasted demand.
- Participate in service requirement reviews led by the Supplier Programme Delivery Manager, who will align needs with the customer's project contacts and offload teams.
Experience & Skills (Preferred)
- Proven experience in project management within complex technical or engineering environments.
- Strong financial and schedule management capability.
- Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., JIRA, POAP dashboards, MS Project).
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to work flexibly across multiple workstreams and international teams.
- Knowledge of operational readiness and release/change management processes.
JOB SUMMARY
Project Manager- Defence
Positiv+ Cohort
Bristol
a day ago
N/A
Contract / Freelance / Self-employed
Project Manager- Defence