Senior Project Manager

Location: The role is primarily based in the UAE, with return travel to the UK included as part of an overseas package.

Looking for an opportunity to make an impact?

Role Overview:

The Senior Project Manager will play a critical role in leading the planning, organising, securing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of programme goals and objectives for a large-scale Supply Chain technology transformation in the Oil and Gas industry. This position is a key part of the project leadership team, ensuring all projects within the programme run within scope, time, and budget constraints.

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for end-to-end programme execution, from project start-up to operations and closeout, including on-contract growth opportunities. You will routinely interface with task and functional leaders, subcontractors, and support personnel while having P&L responsibility.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Influences development of solutions that impact strategic project/programme and business results
• Recommends and implements new solutions, processes, policies, standards in support of function’s strategy and operations
• Provides measurable input to new solutions, processes or standards in order to achieve functional/project objectives and solve complex, multi-disciplined problems
• Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally and client) regarding matters of significant importance to the organisation/project. 
• Works to convince others to accept area’s view/current practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices and approaches
• Has expert knowledge of industry practices, advanced techniques and solutions within the Project Management discipline to develop new standards, processes, and solutions. Serves as a subject matter expert across Leidos. 

Skills Required:

• BA degree with substantial prior relevant experience or Masters with strong prior relevant experience.
• Experience in large scale technology enabled process transformations
• Experience in Supply Chain transformation and/or Oil & Gas industry
• Experience in Overseas working
• Experience of ERP or Supply chain technologies. E.g. Oracle Fusion, SAP, MS Dynamics, Infor, IBM Sterling OMS, Blue Yonder  Dispatcher, Kinaxis, Coupa
• Knowledge of supply chain process, procedures and technology: Order capture, inventory management, Warehousing, Order management and planning; Transport Management
• Technology delivery for  complex system of system architectures 
• Integration technologies: Software AG, Mulesoft IBM Cloud Pak for Integration, APIs
• Cyber Security.

Highly Desirable:

• Demonstrable experience in team leadership as a CE. (Substitute - CA, BA or Programme Manager)
• Experience of technology transformation in supply chain storage and distribution; or wider ERP implementations (SAP, Oracle, Dynamics…)
• Currently residing in the UK or UAE

Desirable Skills:

• Change Management: Guiding others through transformation processes; this includes identifying stakeholders, assessing the impact, providing relevant information at the appropriate cadence, and monitoring implementation. 
• Process Improvements –  Identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing changes to processes to address them. 
• Programme Evaluations: Assessing programs systematically against goals to determine their effectiveness and find opportunities for improvement.  
• Programme Implementation: Planning and executing projects by ensuring resources are coordinated effectively to reach objectives.  
• Programme Management: Overseeing projects to ensure proper resource coordination, communication with stakeholders, and progress towards objectives. 
• Project Management: Leading and coordinating project execution by defining objectives, creating a plan and timeline, coordinating resources, monitoring progress, and ensuring overall success.  
• Project Planning: Creating a detailed outline of project objectives, schedule, tasks, and scope to set expectations, guide team members with project execution, and ensure stakeholder buy-in.  
• Project Proposals: Writing documents that outline project objectives, deliverables, and resources required to ensure alignment between stakeholders. 
• Resource Management: Planning, allocating, and utilizing resources strategically within an organisation. 
• Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating potential risks that could impact the success of a project. 

Clearance Requirements:

• BPSS Pre-screening required to Start

Are you ready to work on projects that can potentially change the world? Join us at Leidos UK, where your most important work is ahead!..

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. This unique reward scheme offers:

• Being based in UAE with customer
• 6 weeks in UAE then 2 weeks in UK (subject to customer need).  Possible 6/2wk rotation
• Hotels and food in UAE
• Medical and Dental in UAE
• Travel within UAE
• This is not a Income Tax free expat role at first but may become one in subsequent years.

Commitment to Diversity:

We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture.  We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone.  If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK Logistics & Missions Support - Through thought leadership and innovation, Leidos delivers cutting-edge logistics solutions that mirror the end-to-end experience available from online retailers.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

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.