Senior Program Manager

locations BE Aerospace UK Limited, Nissen House, Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 4TB

time type Full time

posted on Posted 2 Days Ago

job requisition id 01760249

Date Posted: 2025-04-01

Country: United Kingdom

Location: BE Aerospace UK Limited, Nissen House, Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 4TB

Position Role Type: Unspecified

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Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defence industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and expertise to solve customers’ toughest problems and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market. We are currently on the lookout for a Senior Program Manager to join the team in Leighton Buzzard.

We are a flexible working employer and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants. This role is a hybrid opportunity that will require you to be on-site for a minimum of 3 days a week.

What you will do:

This role is responsible for managing a large team of both experienced professionals and team leaders across functions, managing medium to large sized programs or multiple small programs. You will monitor strategic planning efforts, present progress reports and value-stream strategy, recommend solutions for program problems, manage the P&L of programs and multi vendors, and support contract negotiation. Some of your responsibilities include:

• Lead large programs to ensure adherence to program plans, schedules, and budgets in an Integrated Program Team working with Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Commercial, Finance, Quality, Aftermarket and Business Development.
• Manage the P&L of the program to ensure profitability targets are met and manage multiple vendors.
• Develop milestones, program plans, schedules and budgets for programs to ensure that the organisation’s objectives are met.
• Consolidate and present plans and progress reports relating to business aspects of the program, and manage value-stream strategy and progress.
• Monitor strategic planning efforts for and proactively drive complex programs and support the development of new business growth strategies.
• Demonstrate continuous improvement initiatives to optimise efficiency and quality.
• Identify and react to program problems and recommend solutions, such as allocation of resources, changing contractual specifications, and coordinating responses to customer action items.
• Support the negotiation of contracts and contractual changes, including coordinating preparation of proposals, business plans, proposal work statements, operation budgets, specification and financial conditions of contracts to ensure legal compliance and to protect interests.
• Manage program scope increase or decrease via change management processes.

Size and Scope Information:

• Own the execution of long-term strategy (e.g. more than 3 years) and the operational direction, typically for a business of modest size and scope or manage a team of experienced professionals.
• Focus on tactical and operational plans with short-to-medium term focus, e.g. less than 1 – 2 years.
• Problems faced may be difficult to moderately complex.
• Influence others outside of your job area regarding policies, practices and procedures.

Qualifications we prefer:

• Educated to Degree level in a STEM discipline.
• Strong program management skills and experience ideally in large-scale complex programs in a matrix environment.
• Proven & successful career in Program Management demonstrating a minimum of two years at a senior level.
• Computer literate (Microsoft Office Suite, Project and JDE/SAP).
• Commercial knowledge/awareness and a strong focus on the delivery of objectives.
• Good planning skills (Microsoft Project or Primavera).
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management.
• Is a change agent to drive continuous improvements in a highly challenging environment.
• Proven people leadership in a matrix organisation.
• Extended customer exposure experience.

What we will offer you:

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays.
• Competitive Salary.
• Bonus Scheme.
• Fantastic pension scheme.
• Critical illness cover.
• Income Protection.
• Private Medical Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, the ability to buy holidays, a cycle to work scheme & other great employee discounts.

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