Missile Architecture and Validation Business Manager

The opportunity:

The primary purpose of the role is to manage the operational performance and divisional capability development of the Missile Architecture & Validation UK division

The role reports directly to the VP Missile Architecture and Validation UK. The Missile Architecture and Validation (MAV) Division is part of the Engineering UK Directorate and has over 500 staff working on a wide range of contracted projects and internally funded activities.

MAV UK is responsible for providing delivery leadership and expertise in missile architecting, system design, integration and validation to current and future missile system projects. To enable this the Division has ownership of several significant functional Capability Domains which it is responsible for the strategic development and resilience of.

If you are keen to use and build on your business analytics, financial management and planning skills then this role provides an excellent opportunity to gain insight into the operation of the Engineering Directorate and how a large Division within it is led and managed. You should also have an interest in the capabilities we are developing and a passion for ensuring we derive value for money in our investments in those capabilities.

What we’re looking for from you:

Specific responsibilities for division operational performance management:

• Responsible for the management and tracking of the divisions’ functional improvement, discretionary and capital budgets and associated approvals.
• Responsible for collation of monthly status of cost at completion for any work packages wholly delegated to Missile Architecture and Validation UK.
• Preparation of the monthly operational review including management of actions and collation of a division level progress report for approval by VP Missile Architecture and Validation UK.
• Primary division liaison with wider Engineering Business management community and support to Engineering UK.
• Primary division liaison with Finance directorate for agreement of functional improvement, discretionary and capital budgets.
• Primary division liaison with the Missile Design International Collaboration office (Engineering France) on collaborative operational performance metrics and root cause analysis of any deviations.
• Co-ordinate maintenance and update of Missile Architecture and Validation UK intranet pages.
• Specific responsibilities for capability management:
• Preparation of quarterly capability review to co-ordinate plans, enable prioritisation and share best practice across the division
• Supporting Function Heads & Capability Domain leaders to develop domain strategies and roadmaps, identifying key milestones and maturity metrics, and collating regular status metrics,
• Working with Capability Domain Leaders to produce robust business cases to seek appropriate funding for capital investment, IRAD and functional improvement projects
• Maintaining the divisions’ Capability Catalogue
• Preparing and maintaining the divisions’ capability resilience strategy

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