Senior Project Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 9, 2026. MBDA UK scores B on the Alion truth index.
An opportunity has arisen for a bid focussed Senior Project Manager on the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Programme; one of the largest, most exciting and challenging programmes within Defence - to design and deliver a Future Combat Air Programme for the RAF in record time. The key cornerstone of FCAS is the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), which sees the UK working with our international partners Italy and Japan, to deliver a future combat air platform. FCAS and GCAP presents a unique opportunity to influence the design of the system to consider the integration and employment of effects rather than just integrate effectors to an existing platform.
Salary: £50,000 - £56,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 days per week on-site due to workload classification
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship
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: up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
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:
Join us as a Senior Project Manager with a focus on delivering innovative, compelling and deliverable business winning propositions. You will work collaboratively with other MBDA stakeholders including Sales & Business Development, Programmes, Technical and Finance. As well as ensuring excellence in each individual bid, the role plays a critical part in the long-term product business cases, product route maps and the product investment plans.
You will be working on:
Working in an exciting, complex and changing environment, where there are opportunities to contribute and make a difference in delivering capability to our customers.
A great programme to embed your partner/stakeholder management skills, across a diverse multi-functional, international, organisation.
Exposure to working within a vibrant Project Management community
Opportunity to gain professional/accredited project management qualification
High level of integration between functional directorates and customers within UK and our European counterparts.
There are opportunities for progression across MBDA!
What we're looking for from you:
The ability to form innovative solutions to challenging problems within short timescales
Excellent judgement and stakeholder influencing skills
A good understanding of the key bidding considerations across a number of stakeholders
Experience in project management, contract acquisition and business delivery.
Excellent stakeholder management, both internally and externally
Ideally knowledge of the defence sector
The ability to problem solve issues in real time an in an ambiguous environment
Direct experience either managing or writing bids of a technical nature; preferably in the context of engineering development work
Key activity strands include:
Optimising a portfolio of concurrent and future bidding activities
Delivering Product Business Cases to maximise probability of success for bidding campaigns
Contributing to the Product Line strategy through the road-map and investment strategy
Championing business winning best practices and approaches
Responded to Customer changing requirements
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