Area Lead - Defence and Security

Closing Date:

The Opportunity

What you will do

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  Establishing empowered and self-managing teams that measure themselves through outcomes
• Ensuring all team members are valued and respected and supported to be successful while achieving their desired work life balance
• Encouraging growth and development of all team members
• Actively participates in PM forums or equivalent governance group (UK/cross division) to ensure best practice, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
• Actively involved with recruitment, training and mentoring of others through both informal (on the job training, lunch time learners, sharing experiences) and formal (mentoring program, supporting training courses) approaches

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  Ensure all projects and programmes in the portfolio adhere to functional governance and business processes and directives
• Anticipate, mitigate and manage cross project/programme dependencies and through prioritisation and balance of resources, working with practices when required
• Manage the execution and control activities of the portfolio, monitoring the performance of all projects and other related work in the portfolio
• Establishing, building and influencing internal and external stakeholders and using business management skills to maximize the economic and financial objectives of the portfolio to meet the Integrated Budget Plan (IBP)
• Report on the portfolio performance to the senior leadership team (SLT) identifying issues and areas of success, risk and opportunity, highlighting any requiring support

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  Work with other functions and product teams to deliver sound, innovative solutions and compelling offerings
• Support Project and Programme Managers in maximizing value delivered to customers, driving a positive customer experience
• Supporting the negotiation of complex agreements and risk/reward mechanisms for business case models
• Develop the account, increasing the value of commitment from the customer or providing value to the customer through other product options

What we are looking for

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  Extensive experience in the defence and/or security sector and demonstrable understanding of the current landscape and challenges
• Understanding of the cyber security landscape in terms of threats to defence and security sectors, and some of the approaches to managing cyber risk across people, process and technology
• Familiarity with common cyber security standards and guidance including NIST and NCSC
• A formal qualification in Cyber Security such as CISSP, CISM or NCSC CCP is strongly preferred
• Experience developing solutions to customer problems
• Understanding of Agile delivery approaches such as Scrum and Kanban
• Experience leading cross functional teams to deliver against requirements to time and budget
• Ability to think and work independently with limited oversight
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, and comfortable engaging with stakeholders at all levels in an organisation from technical experts to board level.
• The ideal candidate will have a good knowledge of the current organisational constructs and stakeholder landscape in the UK Defence sector
• The ideal candidate will hold DV clearance; however SC Clearance is required as a minimum, with willingness and ability to attain DV Clearance