PMO Lead

• Location: Whiteley, Hampshire, UK
• Location: This is a Hybrid working role. Whiteley, Hampshire
• Clearance Required: This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance.
• Drive Delivery Excellence on a Complex Aviation Programme
• Leidos is seeking an experienced PMO Lead to drive governance, delivery oversight, planning, reporting, and continuous improvement across a complex systems integration programme supporting critical aviation capabilities.
• Working closely with programme leadership, customers, and delivery teams, you'll lead a team of Project Managers and ensure effective control of programme performance, risk, dependencies, schedules, and stakeholder engagement.

What You'll Do

• Lead and develop the PMO function across multiple workstreams.
• Own programme governance, reporting, planning, risk, dependency, and change management processes.
• Provide meaningful insights and dashboards to support decision-making.
• Manage and mentor a team of Project Managers.
• Drive consistency, quality, and continuous improvement across programme delivery.
• Support financial, schedule, and performance management activities.
• Build strong relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience leading PMO activities within complex programmes or projects.
• Strong knowledge of governance, reporting, planning, risk management, dependencies, and change control.
• Experience working in highly regulated or complex delivery environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Leadership experience managing or developing project and programme teams.
• Commercial awareness and experience working within contractual frameworks.
• Familiarity with PMO tools, methodologies, and reporting systems.

Desirable

• Experience within aviation, defence, transportation, technology, engineering, or systems integration environments.
• Knowledge of customer-supplier delivery models.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation or engineering programmes.
• APM, PRINCE2, MSP, PMI, or equivalent qualifications.
• Experience implementing PMO best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of Earned Value Management (EVM), integrated scheduling, or portfolio reporting.

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 and much more!)

Flexi-Time 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.

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 growthwhilst 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.

Original Posting

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.

Pay Range

£58,400.00-£74,900.00

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.