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Land Ceptor Functional Delivery Lead - UK Defence Organisation
Salary: Negotiable Dependent on Experience
Location: Bristol
SC Clearance Required
Benefits:
Company bonus of up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
Pension of maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
Annual salary review
Paid overtime
Up to 15 days flexi leave
25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase)
Possible relocation available
Fantastic site facilities, including subsidised meals, free car parking and more
Excellent career progression and development opportunities
About the Opportunity:
Our client a leading UK Defence organisation is recruiting a Lead Buyer: Direct Procurement to join their team.
MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.
Salary: Negotiable dependent on experience
What we can offer you:
Company bonus of up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
Pension of maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
Annual salary review
Paid overtime
Up to 15 days flexi leave
25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase)
Possible relocation available
Fantastic site facilities, including subsidised meals, free car parking and more
Excellent career progression and development opportunities
The opportunity:
This is a high profile role, suited to an ambitious individual who will be responsible for the day-to-day operation of the software development program from a systems perspective, co-ordinating the delivery of functionality within the key sub-systems and consolidating the various development programs into a coherent functional delivery plan.
Join the Networked Land Ceptor (NLC) Systems team and work to support the UK and Poland in realising the full potential of its latest Ground Based Air Defence capability, or help tailor this capability for the needs of emerging export customers.
In either case, you'll be working on some of our clients highest profile and largest programmes, building on world-class design: incorporating new ideas, functionality and technology to deliver to our customers.
This role will provide career developing opportunities including exposure to internal stakeholders within our client and external customers such as, UK MoD & Army and the Polish Armed Forces.
Day to day responsibility of the role includes analysing software defects, supporting focussed progress reviews and facilitating agreement and management of functional change within the system, escalating emerging risks to the delivery plan to senior stakeholders, gatekeeping the functionality required of each drop of software and marshalling them through to delivery.
The successful candidate will be comfortable adapting themselves and their approach to the challenge at hand, while working across a number of programmes; they will maintain vision amongst complexity and be adept at communicating this vision to drive, engage and influence key stakeholders.
The role will have real impact on what we deliver to our customers, current and future, and in return will provide you the opportunity to work independently across the company; genuine engineering challenges, and broad professional growth.
You will have:
Strong interpersonal and communication skills to in order to lead forums with technical specialists, partner teams and senior management;
A driven Systems Engineering practitioner, ideally with experience across the full Systems Engineering lifecycle;
Ideally, experience of the writing, management and verification of requirements, including the use of IBM DOORS software
Past experience coordinating a team from diverse engineering would be highly beneficial
Ability to work confidently in the face of ambiguity and multiple conflicting priorities, to be able to identify the priority tasks and communicate effectively to the team.
If you are interested in the position of Land Ceptor Functional Delivery Lead or other roles then please contact the Defence team via: (phone number removed) //(url removed) for more information
