Job Description

Leonardo is a global industrial group, among the main global players in Aerospace, Defence and Security that realises multi-domain technological capabilities in Helicopters, Aircraft, Aerostructures, Electronics, Cyber Security and Space. With over 60,000 employees worldwide, the company has a solid industrial presence in Italy, the UK, Poland and the US. It also operates in 150 countries through subsidiaries, joint ventures and investments. A key player in major international strategic programmes, it is a technological and industrial partner of governments, defence administrations, institutions and companies.

We are looking for a: Internal Assurance and Improvement Manager who is available for an indicative period of two years in the UK, before returning to one of Leonardo Italia's sites.

Site Torino Corso Francia

Responsibilities:

Provides the leadership driven assurance for: functional, independent assurance, leading process assurance development and data quality frameworks. This approach supports the improvement of PM&C systems, processes, data and people, while focusing on improving the quality culture within the entire PM&C community, assuring compliance and adherence to both processes and standards.

Accountabilities include (but are not limited to):

• Definition and development of assurance framework;
• Analyse existing processes to verify their compliance to required standards;
• Roll out the assurance framework to keep track of process compliance, performance, and adherence to agreed standards;
• Provide audit and review provisions that are conducted periodically to achieve consistency and areas of improvement;
• Produce integrated audit and assurance plan to structure and consolidate all assurance and audit activities on PM processes;
• Support Quality and Audit function in programme compliance monitoring and reporting;
• Identify possible areas of processes improvements and define corrective actions;
• Monitor the effectiveness of processes implemented changes ensuring issues resolution;
• Ensure PM processes compliance with laws and internal policies and regulations;
• Develop and maintain assurance tools that allow to assess process control effectiveness;
• Provide the functional centre of excellence for assurance from a PM&C perspective;
• Manage team performance and code of conduct in accordance with the company policies;
• Provide strategic view for assurance to support business planning and objectives;
• Perform the second line of assurance validation in support of the business quality policy.

Objectives (Sample)

• Achieve xx% compliance with all governance standards by xx;
• Reduce governance-related non-compliance incidents by xx%;
• Establish means for continuous monitoring and enhancement of processes;
• Using feedback loops, performance data, and evolving best practices;
• Provide a structured assurance system for the function which includes independent oversight in the appropriate areas. This structures in line 1 the compliance checks, line 2 are effectiveness checks and in line 3 contain fully independent/external assurance and audit.

Requirements:

• Professional certifications; example: PMP (Project Management Professional), PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM (Association for Project Management);
• Bachelor’s or higher degree in relevant subject;
• Leadership skills with experience in managing and mentoring a team and engaging with several stakeholders;
• Ability to establish assurance framework, plan and methods;
• Relevant Experience in developing and implementing assurance frameworks;
• Knowledge of compliance standards (example: ISO);
• Excellent knowledge of Office tools and solutions used for governance assurance.

Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Seniority: Expert

Attitudes:

• Decision Making;
• Attitude for teamwork;
• Ability to work under pressure;
• Flexibility and ability to adapt
• Orientation towards problem solving, activity planning and deadline management;
• Dynamism Autonomy and proactivity;
• Availability for travel.

Language skills

• English: excellent written and spoken;
• Italian: excellent written and spoken.

Computer skills:

• Excellent knowledge of Office tools;

Other:

Working with us you will be able to continuously face new challenges and high technological experiences constantly increasing competencies and knowledge.

Seniority:

Primary Location:

IT - Torino - C.so Francia

Additional Locations:

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hybrid Working: