UK Portfolio Planning Lead

About the job

Bolton

The Portfolio Management Agreement 2 (PMA-2) is a strategic arrangement between MBDA and MOD to deliver the Complex Weapons to the UK Armed Forces over the next ten years.

The Portfolio Planning Lead plays a key role in ensuring the PMA-2 remains affordable to the UK Customer and acts as part of the Joint Planning Cell (JPC) – a joint MBDA/MOD team tasked with understanding and assessing all aspects of the Portfolio including but not limited to changes in military capability requirements and affordability.  

Salary: Circa £70,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3-4 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen.

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary.
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%.
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements.
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments.
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…

The opportunity:

You will be responsible for maintaining a 10+ year view of the cost of all work already contracted under PMA-2 (and work contracted under the previous agreements), as well as a forecast of the costs of all future work that falls within the perimeter of the PMA-2.

Key activities include the collation of Financial Data within MBDA but also then assuring alignment with MOD Financial assumptions. Generation, maintenance and release reviews for the Joint Cost Modelling will be an important part of the role. Management of the tool and processes is also a crucial part of the role in support of Planning Rounds.

Alignment with MOD will be critical to this role so understanding the outputs from the MOD ABC process will be important.

Should affordability challenges occur you will work with the JPC team members to propose and evaluate ‘options' to return the Portfolio to affordability, ensuring other factors impacting the Portfolio i.e. military capability, benefits, critical skills, export, etc. are not compromised.

Applications are invited from all functions and disciplines, however it is highly desirable that the successful candidate will have the following core skills:

This is a role within the business that will require the successful candidate to operate in an environment where the remit is clear, but the precise detail of how this will be delivered will evolve.

The role is an excellent opportunity to gain unique experiences not always available in purely functional or project based roles:

• Greater understanding of how MBDA UK operates as a business.
• Visibility of the joint Forward Planning for programmes / activities within the next 10 years as well as potential options being considered.
• Participation in MBDA UK's close working relationship with the MOD.
• Exposure to senior business leaders in MBDA UK.
• Work alongside people from all parts of the business and the MOD.
• Excellent opportunities for networking.

The Portfolio team provides a leading role in evolving the way MBDA works collaboratively with the UK Customer, seeking to maximise capability within the UK budget, with increased UK sovereign control and better value for money.

The team is located at both the Stevenage, Filton and Bolton sites.

What we're looking for from you:

• Excellent analytical skills: Strong Excel skills (knowledge of VBA and/or Power Queries desirable).
• Strong data visualisation skills: this is essential to ensure that complex problems (and hence any solutions proposed) can be expressed succinctly and clearly to Senior Management.
• Ability to understand, process and configure financial data, schedule data, technical details and the associated assumptions underwriting them.
• Strong relationship skills.

In addition the following key attributes are highly desirable:

• Highly motivated and pro-active, and be capable of working on your own initiative with a minimum of supervision, as well as within a larger team or stakeholder group.
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills.
• Able to analyse complex problems succinctly.
• Comfortable operating in an environment with a high degree of uncertainty.
• Able to work simultaneously with and influence multiple stakeholder groups, both from within MBDA and the MOD customer community.

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