Subcontract Project Manager
Location: Farnborough
Clearance: DV Clearance
The Subcontract Project Manager will support delivery of the Programme, working at the interface between Leidos, key subcontractors, suppliers and internal programme functions. The role is responsible for coordinating subcontractor delivery activity, maintaining clear plans, managing dependencies, tracking risks and issues, and ensuring supplier commitments are aligned to programme milestones, governance expectations and customer outcomes.
The Programme is a complex UK defence programme focused on the transition, delivery and evolution of secure digital services. The programme requires disciplined project controls, proactive supplier management, strong stakeholder engagement and robust assurance to support transition readiness, service commencement, technical refresh, decommissioning and continuous improvement activity.
The successful candidate will be a proactive, delivery-focused project manager with strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills and the ability to operate confidently across commercial, technical, operational and supplier teams. The role will work closely with the Programme Manager, Commercial and Subcontracts teams, Transition Manager, Service Delivery Manager, technical leads and key subcontractor representatives.
What will I be doing?
* Manage the day-to-day planning, coordination and delivery of subcontractor activities across assigned programme workstreams, ensuring scope, milestones, dependencies and deliverables are clearly understood and actively managed.
* Maintain integrated subcontractor delivery plans, action logs, RAID records, dependency registers and reporting inputs, ensuring accurate visibility of progress, blockers, risks and upcoming decisions.
* Coordinate supplier inputs into transition, mobilisation, service readiness, acceptance, technical refresh, decommissioning and programme governance activities.
* Support the management of subcontractor deliverables, evidence packs, implementation products, reporting submissions and acceptance artefacts, ensuring they are produced to the required quality and timescales.
* Work with Commercial and Subcontracts colleagues to identify scope boundaries, change impacts, contractual dependencies, supplier obligations and any commercial risks requiring escalation.
* Drive timely resolution of subcontractor risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating where required through programme governance and ensuring mitigation actions are owned, tracked and closed.
* Facilitate effective working relationships between Leidos, subcontractors, suppliers and internal delivery teams, promoting clear communication, collaborative behaviours and disciplined follow-through on commitments.
* Support programme reporting, delivery reviews and governance forums by providing concise updates on subcontractor progress, forecast activity, key decisions, risks, issues and required interventions.
What does Leidos need from me?
Essential skills and experience
* Proven experience managing projects, suppliers or subcontractor delivery within complex IT, managed service, defence, government or highly regulated environments.
* Strong project controls capability, including planning, milestone management, RAID management, dependency tracking, action management and reporting.
* Experience working with multidisciplinary delivery teams across commercial, technical, service, transition, security and supplier functions.
* Ability to interpret delivery commitments, identify emerging risk, manage competing priorities and drive practical resolution of blockers.
* Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to engage senior programme stakeholders, suppliers and delivery teams.
* High attention to detail, strong organisational discipline and the ability to produce clear, accurate and decision-ready reporting.
Desirable skills and experience
* Experience of MOD, Defence Digital, secure service delivery or classified programme environments.
* Understanding of service transition, mobilisation, operational readiness, acceptance criteria, hypercare or early life support.
* Awareness of Agile, SAFe, ITIL-aligned service management, hybrid delivery models and controlled change environments.
* Experience supporting supplier governance, subcontractor performance reviews, commercial change impact assessments or delivery assurance forums.
* Relevant project management qualification such as PRINCE2, APM, MSP, AgilePM, Scrum or equivalent professional experience.
What does success look like?
* Subcontractor plans, milestones, dependencies and deliverables are clearly baselined, actively managed and visible to the Programme team.
* Supplier risks and issues are identified early, escalated appropriately and supported by credible mitigation actions.
* Programme reporting is accurate, timely and decision-ready, giving stakeholders clear visibility of progress and required intervention.
* Subcontractor delivery remains aligned to transition readiness, service commencement, technical refresh, decommissioning and wider programme objectives.
* Leidos, subcontractors and suppliers operate as an integrated delivery team with clear ownership, strong collaboration and disciplined follow-through.
Clearance Requirements:
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)
• Flexi-Time
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. 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.
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.
£54,600.00-£70,000.00
The 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.
Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 48,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023.
Leidos was cited for the meaningful work employees perform that is challenging, impactful, and aligned with our customers’ missions as reasons professionals want to work and stay at our company. Leidos has also been named to lists including Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity, Forbes’ America’s Best Employers for Women, Military Times Best for Vets Employers, and Ethisphere Institute’s World's Most Ethical Companies®.
Employees enjoy career enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors and talented colleagues and customers. Employees appreciate our flexible work environment, allowing for and encouraging a true work-life balance. Our professionals are also excited about our Employee Resource Groups, like the Collaborative Outreach with Remote and Embedded Employees (CORE), which strives to create an environment where every employee, regardless of location, feels fully engaged as a valued employee of Leidos.
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