Programme Manager (Weapons)

Date Posted: 2026-06-16

Country: United Kingdom

Location: Harlow, Essex

Position: Programme Manager

Grade: (P4)

Job Title: Programme Manager

Location: Harlow, UK - with travel to customer and supplier locations within the UK or overseas

Summary of Role

The Raytheon UK Weapons Business has a fantastic opening for a new Project Manager (PM) to deliver a complex, high profile project for one of its key customers. This role provides an opportunity to manage a maritime, product based project and further develop skills with an eye toward career progression within the wider business.

Main Duties

• Lead and manage a complex bid, from opportunity shaping and proposal development to contract award and mobilisation.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure a compelling and compliant proposal, and a plan for integrated delivery and seamless execution across all project elements.
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to support a shared project vision.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and flawless execution.
• Manage bid/project performance against agreed milestones, KPIs, and contractual deliverables.
• Own the proposal budget and ensure financial targets and customer commitments are consistently met.
• Identify and mitigate risks while actively capturing and exploiting opportunities to enhance bid/project outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with Defence Standards, security protocols, and governance requirements.
• Ensure applicable export licences are obtained.

Candidate Requirements

• Experience in competitive bids, delivering proposals and transitioning them into a delivery programme.
• Delivering time critical proposals and projects.
• Confident communicator with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders and technical experts.
• Create and maintain momentum in a project.
• Strong leadership and team coordination skills.
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies and governance frameworks.
• Recognise opportunities and risks, be proactive and drive positive outcomes.
• Creative and open to innovation to solve problems, especially when resolving ambiguity.
• A confident team player who works collaboratively with others and inspires them to follow in their positive example.
• Able and willing to travel to customers and suppliers within the UK and occasionally overseas.

Desirable

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Engineering, Business Management, or any related discipline.
• Professional project management qualification such as Project Management Institute PMP, APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent recognised certification.
• Experience delivering programmes within the maritime or wider defence domain.
• Experience in agile delivery approaches within defence engineering programmes.
• Defence Prime or Ministry of Defence (MoD) customer experience.

Security & Compliance Requirements

Ability to obtain and maintain security clearance. Eligibility to work on government and defence related contracts.

Equal Employment Opportunity

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.