PMO Manager

Overview

PMO Manager - Location: Hybrid role. Whiteley, Hampshire. Clearance Required: This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance.

Leidos is seeking an experienced PMO Manager to lead and oversee all Programme Management Office (PMO) activities within a major, complex programme. This role is critical to ensuring robust governance, effective delivery management, and alignment across multiple technical and non-technical workstreams.

You will manage a team of Project Managers, ensuring work packages are clearly defined, appropriately governed, and delivered to meet contractual, technical, and programme commitments. The successful candidate will bring significant experience operating within a Systems Integrator (SI) environment, alongside strong commercial awareness and a track record of managing PMO functions within a contractually governed customer-supplier relationship.

What will I be doing?

• Lead the PMO function for the programme, ensuring all core disciplines - governance, schedule management, risk and issue management, change control, data quality, and deliverables tracking - are effectively operated and continuously improved.
• Oversee a team of Project Managers, ensuring work packages are clearly defined, well-governed, and delivered in line with contractual, technical and programme commitments.
• Maintain high-quality programme reporting, dashboards, and insights, ensuring transparency for senior stakeholders and alignment with customer governance requirements.
• Ensure PMO processes support and comply with the programme's commercial and contractual framework, including milestone tracking, baseline management, and integration with the customer processes.
• Build strong relationships across internal teams, external partners, and customer stakeholders to ensure alignment, issue resolutions, and effective cross-programme communication.

What does Leidos need from me?

• Significant experience in PMO Leadership within Systems Integration Programmes.
• Strong understanding of PMO functions, governance frameworks and SI delivery environments.
• Experience operating within a commercial and contractual framework, including supporting contract deliverables, change processes and milestone compliance.
• Proven ability to lead and develop teams of Project Managers.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging senior leadership and customer representatives.
• Proficient in PMO tools and methodologies.

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
• Flexi Working

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. 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.

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.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We invest in technical academies, career rotations and 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.

Pay Range

£73,700.00-£97,000.00

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit .

Pay and Benefits

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.