Product Project Manager

As a Product Project Manager within our Futures Business Unit, you thrive on driving advancement of emerging technology both through customer-funded projects and internal investment. This is a key delivery role where your successes will be recognised companywide, with exposure up to board level.

Roke's Futures business unit uses our expertise gathered across many industries to provide rapid, innovative, and secure solutions to our customers' most complex challenges. We operate across the whole lifecycle providing advice, research and development, engineering, design and in-service support for our products and services. We have solutions around Intelligent Sensing, Situational Awareness and Autonomy. We have a strong reputation of selling innovative solutions and services to Rolls Royce for Aerospace inspection and into FTSE 100 companies in Utilities, Mining, and Telecom sectors. We have also delivered referenceable AI solutions to the Home Office and law enforcement, and healthcare.

As our next Product Project Manager, you'll be the lead on product development projects to exceed customer expectation, engaging with the client throughout the project life cycle.

Working in a diverse and welcoming culture, the key responsibilities are:

• Manage the design and coordination of trial-stage activities from simulation demonstrators through to live field trial events with a range of hardware / technology.
  
• Collaborate closely with the Business Unit Leadership Team, Client Management, central business functions and others in the delivery teams.
  
• Consistently execute contracts fully to schedule, cost and quality through management techniques tailored to the projects.
  
• Create trusted and enduring relationships, building value for both the customer and Roke.
  
• Identify, prioritise, and mitigate risks & issues associated with both the bid process and project delivery.
  
• Support and lead bids with confidence; demonstrating that schedule, cost & quality factors are fully considered.
  
• Report/forecast accurately against key performance measures/indicators (KPIs).
  
• Continually seek to improve delivery capability in parallel to core delivery.
  
  Making the extraordinary, every day
  
  The Key Requirements...
  
  You will have:
  
• Experience leading projects with a product development / introduction lifecycle.
  
• Overseen trial events from planning through to hands-on testing and demonstrations.
  
• Managed engineering teams that develop novel solutions, ideally with a software element.
  
• Experience managing hardware suppliers.
  
• Successfully delivered bids and contracts to target schedule, cost, and quality levels.
  
• Provided timely and accurate forecast information and project reporting, managing both internal and external stakeholders' expectations as appropriate.
  
• A willingness to occasionally travel to other Roke sites (Woking, Romsey, Gloucester, Manchester, and London) or to client sites, if needed.
  
  Desirable:
  
• Experience of agile software delivery.
  
• Experience of / exposure to software delivery within a product environment.
  
• Knowledge of drones and C-UAS
  
• Defence and Law Enforcement experience.
  
  Built over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act, through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe - that's our mission, passion, and motivation.
  
  Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, you'll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey: having doubled in size over the last 4 years, we intend to further double our headcount by 2027. At Roke, every individual counts. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.
  
  Where you'll work...
  
  ROMSEY - Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you'll find our Romsey site located within beautiful Hampshire countryside, close to the picturesque New Forest District and not far from a superb stretch of the south coast. This is no corporate concrete jungle; this is a manor house site, with ample parking, an on-site gym and a driveway full of daffodils in the spring.
  
  WOKING - Alongside hybrid and flexible working options, you'll find our Woking site in a modern building on the outskirts of London. Rated excellent for sustainability by BREEAM & Fitwel certified - you'll feel better for visiting. This site provides key links to our customers in London, is a 5-minute walk from the train station, has secure parking nearby and dedicated cycle storage.
  
  The Benefits and Perks...
  
  
• Hybrid working: A minimum of 40% of your monthly hours working at your base/client location, subject to role requirements.
  
• Flexitime: Working hours to suit you and your life
  
• Annual bonus: Based on profit share and personal performance.
  
• Private medical insurance: Includes cover for existing conditions.
  
• Holiday: 25 days plus public holidays and your birthday off
  
• Chemring Share Save: Monthly savings into a 3- or 5-year plan.
  
  Clearances...
  
  Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC clearance.
  
  The Next Step...
  
  Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV. We look forward to hearing from you