Senior Programme Manager

QinetiQ · Gosport, United Kingdom · On site · yesterday

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Posted October 13, 2026 · Read from QinetiQ
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Package: £76,725 - £85,250 (salary dependent on experience) + Benefits

Role ID: SF20556

Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting-edge defence technology to ground-breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Senior Programme Manager at our Haslar facility, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role

To lead the delivery of a high value (>£15M per annum) COMPLEX Programme involving Maritime consulting and a software portfolio.

Day-to-day, you will lead and motivate Project Managers within the programme to ensure they are embedding health and safety and providing safe practices of work. Ensuring teams are collaborating effectively and working towards the same goal to deliver the outputs and/or outcomes delivering on time, within scope and budget.

Your responsibilities will include:

Development and maintenance of positive engagement with programme customers, partners and suppliers

Operating in a Safe & Secure manner

Embedding a culture in line with the QinetiQ values

Delivery of the Programme outcomes, to agreed baseline (customer satisfaction, time, cost, quality, cash and sales)

Ensuring portfolio members operate in line with the Operating Framework & functional competency management requirements; and have appropriate personal objectives recorded in the QinetiQ performance management system

Resolving conflicts (including prioritisation calls) within the portfolio and collaborating across QinetiQ

Leading the embedding of improvement in the QinetiQ project and programme management function, as agreed with IDT Lead and the Performance Excellence team

Essential experience of the Senior Programme Manager:

Experience gained, typically rather than necessarily, between 5-8 years of leading a business, projects, programmes, portfolios or P3 function; successful delivery of complex programmes

Experience leading programmes to 3 different customers

Experience with Maritime Programmes - Desirable

Desirable qualifications for the Senior Programme Manager:

MSP Practitioner qualification (desirable)

Demonstrable capability to International Project Management Association Level A

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

This role is 37 hours per week and is based out of our Haslar facility on a hybrid working pattern of 3 days per week on average, onsite.

Haslar

Our facilities at the Haslar Marine Technology Park are state-of-the-art, including our ocean basin rotating arm, and marine towing tank, offering an unparalleled environment for testing and refining designs. Our marine technology offers our global customers a service to deliver constrained hydrodynamic model tests of surface ships, submarines, offshore structures, and renewable energy devices.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

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Employer
QinetiQ
Location
Gosport, United Kingdom · On site