Description
Project Manager
Programme Name: LCST
Location: Bristol, UK
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Role Overview:
We are seeking a motivated and capable Project Manager to operate within the LCST contract, working in close partnership with the Senior Programme Manager to support delivery across a complex, multi-functional environment.
This role is responsible for driving the successful delivery of projects and workstreams, including scheduling, change management, and the integration of new business activity. You will contribute to ensuring delivery alignment with programme objectives, contractual commitments, and operational priorities.
This is a full-time, permanent position requiring strong organisational skills, delivery discipline, and the ability to operate effectively in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
Duties and Responsibilities:
*Lead delivery of projects and workstreams, ensuring alignment to defined objectives, contractual commitments, and organisational priorities
*Support and maintain delivery governance, including controls across scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality
*Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, including internal resources, suppliers, and third-party vendors, to support integrated delivery
*Work with technical and non-technical leads to ensure delivery consistency and manage dependencies
*Build and maintain stakeholder relationships, providing clear and consistent communication and supporting issue resolution where required
*Define and manage project scope, objectives, and success criteria, ensuring alignment and traceability throughout the lifecycle
*Support resource planning and allocation, ensuring effective utilisation in line with delivery requirements
*Manage change control processes, assessing impact on scope, schedule, cost, and risk
*Proactively manage risks and issues, ensuring they are identified, mitigated, and tracked in line with governance standards
*Deliver to agreed time, cost, and quality baselines, supporting financial tracking and reporting (forecasting, EAC, variance)
*Support supplier and partner performance, ensuring alignment to delivery objectives and agreed outcomes
*Produce and maintain project artefacts, including schedules, RAID logs, financial tracking, and reporting packs
*Escalate delivery challenges as required, supporting resolution while maintaining delivery momentum
*Contribute to continuous improvement and the adoption of best practice across project management disciplines
Skills Required:
*Recognised Project Management qualification (e.g. APM PMQ or equivalent)
*Strong project delivery experience
*Proven experience delivering projects, working to defined scope, schedule, and financial targets
*Experience in project management, with the ability to operate effectively at delivery level within a wider programme environment
*Good understanding of delivery methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid approaches
*Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate and influence across internal and external teams
*Experience working in multi-functional environments, including customer, supplier, and internal stakeholders
*Understanding of financial controls, including budgeting, forecasting, and cost management
*Ability to engage with both technical and non-technical teams to support delivery outcomes
*Strong communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly and concisely
*Good organisational skills and attention to detail, with a focus on governance and delivery discipline
*Professional, proactive approach with a strong sense of accountability
Skills Desired:
*Background in logistics, software, engineering, or technical delivery environments
Clearance Requirements:
* BPSS pre-screening required to start

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Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction...
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)
• Flexible Working Scheme
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:
The Logistics Commodities & Services Transformation (LCST) Programme for the UK Ministry of Defence is a critical effort to enhance and improve the UK’s defence supply chain. The programme provides essential services such as storage and distribution for the MOD’s materiel, including a global freight service and the procurement and inventory management of 70,000 commodity NATO Stock Number (NSNs).
Working together as Team Leidos we are helping to transform the UK’s defence supply chain by providing an integration of a complex mixture of services, at low risk, using a modern suite of systems that will deliver one version of the truth. For the first time, the MOD will see the whole picture, as it is happening.
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.
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