Project Manager - Defence

Project Manager 6 months SC Cleared Overview of role: • To deliver semi-complex projects, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts addressing issues, or situations with limited supervision. • To lead…

Pay rate £300 – £420/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 7 September 2026

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Project Manager
6 months
SC Cleared
Overview of role:
• To deliver semi-complex projects, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts addressing issues, or situations with limited supervision.
• To lead projects across a range of business contexts. Inform acquisition strategy and align portfolio/projects to the organisational vision.
Typical main responsibilities:
• Responsible for leading, managing and developing multidisciplinary teams covering a range of subject areas within associated semi-complex projects, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts.
• Accountable for the delivery of their projects' outputs within the performance/cost/time envelope for a semi-complex project, multiple simple projects or complex control accounts.
• Responsible for ensuring the most cost-effective and efficient means of delivery, whilst mitigating risk and leveraging opportunities.
• Support an open, honest, no blame culture. Actively highlighting failures and shortfalls positively and drawing through LFE into the project or control account, advising on
mitigations and engaging with OBI owner to mitigate wider occurrence.
• Responsible for embedding and adhering to all governance and policy and enable the required compliance throughout their team, ensure appropriate challenge and gain approval to deviate when necessary.
• Regularly meet the customer to understanding the objective, requirements and the means of acceptance in line with the MoD's Operating Model and Defence Lines of Development.
• Deliver project requirements within the performance/cost/time envelope. Sustain and leverage value through the monitoring and management of contract performance against commitments (product and services) and meet our own obligations under the contract

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