Programme Lead

Job Description

Programme Lead – FCAS

Bristol

SNBG 7 - 10

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere. 

By joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

Why Rolls-Royce?

The Early Lifecycle team is at the heart of securing the future growth of the Defence business.  We are delivering tomorrows technology fast, by bringing together the company’s best engineers, programme managers and business professionals. Working in partnership with Governments, primes and new technology companies across the globe, we deliver future solutions, new and innovative power and propulsion concepts, technology, and applications to meet the customers emerging requirements.

An exciting opportunity for a Programme Lead has arisen within our Defence Early Lifecycle Portfolio Integration team to support the full range of activities from managing contract deliverables, finances and external customer interactions to supporting in the creation and delivery of programme processes, governance and compliance activities. This role involves working with a range of stakeholders to support the delivery of the programme and thus enabling the delivery of our Defence Combat strategy for the next 50 years.

Rolls-Royce’s customers and the company have entrusted us to deliver the future technologies, people, processes and programmes.  Successful delivery of these programmes will ensure both the UK and Rolls-Royce retains combat capability, ensuring freedom of action for the UK and enabling the company to maintain our market share in the Naval, Defence Aero and combat markets.

We offer excellent development, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

What you will be doing:

• Delivering contract requirements, including financials, deliverables, milestones and reporting on one of the most exciting and fastest growing Defence programmes.
• Manage and report variances to project baseline and report programme Key Performance Indicators to ensure we maintain the highest quality, cost and delivery expectations.
• Review programme data, identify and report trends, highlight anomalies and corrective action if performance is outside requirements.
• Influence and report to relevant stakeholders, whether that is internally, to external partners and customers.  
• Responsible for the development, delivery and governance of portfolio level documents and controls such as budgets, processes and management plans, shaping and influencing the future of the programme.
• Review and report the status of key activities in accordance with the programme requirements and agreed with the Programme Manager.

   

Position qualifications:

• Experience in leading projects in complex environments
• Proven delivery against time, cost, quality, and performance targets 
• Strong stakeholder and governance management skills
• Financially literate, with the ability to manage budgets, forecasts, and cost performance.

 Preferred requirements:

• Professional accreditation (e.g. APM) or working towards
• Exposure to commercial or contract management activities
• Experience working with national or international partners or customers.
• Experience driving continuous-improvement or transformation within a programme environment.

For this role you will need to hold a Security Check (SC) (UK Eyes only) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you don’t currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, you must hold a UK nationality.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. 

 

The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. 

 

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.  

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued, diverse perspectives fuel innovation, and everyone can thrive.

  

Grade:  SNBG 7 - 10

For further information please contact:  Lizzie Moore - Lizzie.moore@rolls-royce.com

Job Category

Project Management

Posting Date

20 Mar 2026; 00:03

Posting End Date

26 Mar 2026