Lead Programme Manager - Contract Re-Award SC Cleared

Lead Programme Manager - Contract Re-Award SC

Clearance Required: SC and must be willing to go through DV

An opportunity is available for an experienced Lead Programme Manager to take ownership of a critical contract re-award programme within a secure and regulated environment.

This is a delivery-focused role requiring strong control, structure, and senior stakeholder engagement to drive re-award activity through to contract signature and immediate mobilisation.

The Role - Lead Programme Manager

You will be responsible for the end-to-end coordination and delivery of re-award activities, ensuring the programme progresses in a controlled and defensible manner despite tight timelines and evolving requirements.

Key Accountabilities

Re-Award Programme Delivery

• Own the integrated re-award programme plan, milestones, dependencies, and critical path.

• Coordinate commercial, finance, delivery, technical, and assurance workstreams.

• Maintain visibility of progress, risks, slippage, and contractual impacts.

Planning, Tracking and Control

• Develop and maintain detailed plans, trackers, and status reporting.

• Ensure disciplined RAID, assumptions, dependency, and decision management.

• Drive clarity on ownership and accountability across deliverables.

Governance and Reporting

• Operate governance forums, reviews, and decision gates.

• Provide clear reporting to Programme Director, senior leadership, and customer stakeholders.

• Escalate risks early with defined mitigation options and trade-offs.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the coordination point between delivery teams and senior leadership.

• Support preparation for customer reviews and assurance activities.

• Manage competing priorities across multiple teams.

Post-Signature Readiness

• Support mobilisation and transition planning immediately post-signature.

• Ensure continuity between re-award outputs and live delivery execution.

Essential Experience

• Must have Bids expweirence
• An expert in delivery of governance and RIGGOR

• Proven experience delivering large, complex programmes with multiple stakeholders.

• Strong planning, coordination, and governance capability.

• Experience operating in high-pressure, time-constrained environments.

• Confident communicator with senior stakeholders.

• Experience in contract re-award or bid-to-delivery transition.

• Experience within defence, government, or regulated sectors.

This role suits a disciplined Lead Programme Manager who thrives in structured governance environments and is comfortable operating at pace in secure programmes.

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