Job Description
PROGRAMME MANAGER
Location: This is a Hybrid role. Whiteley, Hampshire
Clearance Required: This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance
We are seeking an experienced Programme Manager to lead the delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder programmes. This is a customer-facing role where you will play a key part in building trusted relationships, aligning customer objectives, and ensuring successful delivery against commercial and operational goals.
Key Responsibilities
Act as the primary customer interface, building strong, trusted relationships
Lead end-to-end programme delivery across scope, schedule, cost, and risk
Drive programme governance, including steering boards and executive reporting
Manage multiple projects, workstreams, and dependencies
Oversee financial performance, forecasting, and contractual commitments
Engage and influence stakeholders across customers, partners, and internal teams
Ensure robust risk, issue, and delivery assurance management
Support programme growth through change requests, proposals, and bid activity
Essential Experience
Proven Programme Manager or Senior Project Manager experience
Strong track record in customer-facing, stakeholder-driven environments
Experience delivering complex, multi-party programmes
Demonstrable expertise in governance, financial management, and risk control
Confident engaging and influencing senior stakeholders
Degree qualified or equivalent experience
Desirable Experience
Experience in regulated, safety-critical, or technical environments
Professional certifications (e.g. PMP, Agile)
Exposure to bids, proposals, or commercial activities
Skills & Capabilities
Excellent customer engagement and influencing skills
Strong leadership and communication capability
Ability to manage complex delivery environments
Commercial awareness and financial acumen
Effective risk and dependency management
Working Arrangements
This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of 1–2 days per week onsite, alongside regular travel to customer sites as required. Training will be provided on Leidos proprietary tools and processes where needed.
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. Our reward scheme includes:
Contributory Pension Scheme
Private Medical Insurance
33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme and much more!)
Flexi-Time Working
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 & Europe – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. 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.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
Original Posting:
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
£58,400.00-£74,900.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.