Senior Project Manager

Job Description:

Salary - £60k to £75k

Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

Your Impact

Senior Project Manager to shape the future of defence technologies. The successful candidate responsible for the delivery of technology exploitation projects within the Future Programmes area of the FCAS sector, focused on transitioning and exploiting existing technologies and investments to meet evolving customer and market needs.

The role operates across organisational boundaries, coordinating delivery activity across delivery teams within multiple Lines of Business. The successful candidate shall play a critical role in delivering new revenue streams for the business by converting future capability into deliverable, customer‑relevant outcomes.

This is an exciting role, enabling the business to face in to new areas of the market, such as the Digital Targeting Web, at pace.

What you’ll do:

• Support delivery technology exploitation projects, maintaining control of scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, and dependencies to meet Future Programmes objectives. These will be a mixture of small PV projects, and customer funded R&D.
• Develop and manage integrated delivery plans, monitoring milestones and proactively resolving delivery issues through appropriate governance.
• Act as the delivery focal point across multiple LoBs, managing interfaces, dependencies, and alignment with senior engineering and business stakeholders.
• Apply robust governance, reporting, and control, including LCM compliance, financial tracking, forecasting, assurance, and change control.
• Drive continuous improvement, capturing lessons learned, applying best practice project management, and supporting delivery maturity growth.

What you’ll bring:

To succeed in this role, you will bring a proven track record in project management and a strong ability to unite and motivate cross-functional (and LoB) teams towards a common goal.

Essential skills and experience include:

• Demonstrated experience in project management, ideally within complex engineering or defence environments.
• Ability to lead, influence, and federate diverse cross-functional teams.
• Strong capability in generating and executing data-driven plans that deliver measurable benefits.

It would be nice if you have:

• Knowledge and understanding of the digital defence domain.
• Exposure to defence, aerospace, or future capability environments
• Understanding of early‑to‑mid lifecycle phases (concept, maturation, demonstration)
• APM PMQ (or equivalent), or working towards
• Experience of Software Product Management and/or delivery of “Platform/Software as a Service”
• The ability to undertake frequent UK nationwide travel to Leonardo UK sites, and key partner/subcontractor sites

This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.

Security Clearance

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting

Why join us

At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work–life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we’re here to help you thrive.

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Tailored Perks: Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more.
• Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role.

For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website.

Leonardo is a global leader in Aerospace, Defence, and Security. Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. Our employees are not just part of a team—they are key contributors to shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety.

At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know.

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Primary Location:

GB - Luton - Cap. Green 300

Additional Locations:

GB - Basildon, GB - Edinburgh, GB - Lincoln, GB - London, GB - Newcastle, GB - Southampton

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hybrid Working:

Hybrid