Procurement Technology Transfer Delivery Manager

We are looking for a highly motivated business professional, willing to travel internationally, to join our growing Export Strategy & Industrial Participation team within the diverse Major Equipment Procurement' (MEP) department at MBDA.

Salary: Circa £50,000 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.

• 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

Major Equipment Procurement (MEP) focus on the sourcing, contracting, supply and licensing of bespoke high value / high complexity sub-systems needed to deliver world leading defence capabilities for our Customers. The MEP Export Strategy & Industrial Participation team focus on developing and delivering technology transfer to support both Offset propositions and licensed manufacture between our MEP Suppliers and our Customers industrial base.

The Delivery Manager role is primarily devoted to the delivery of a small to medium industrial transfer project from an MEP supplier to an MBDA customers Transfer Recipient or supporting a Senior Delivery Manager/Delivery Executive to deliver a large industrial transfer project or a number of transfer projects in support of an MBDA contractual obligation.

Upon joining our team, you will undertake a role as a Delivery manager with responsibility for delivering subsystem Technology Transfer packages from our MEP Supply base to one of our largest export customer's industrial base, in order to enable the customers industry (Transfer Recipient) to manufacture subsystems under license.

You will need to work effectively on multiple activities simultaneously - supporting the MEP Technology Transfer Delivery Executive to manage the transfer of a wide range of goods and services across a number of different sub-system work packages from both UK and Italian Suppliers, in order to enable a number of Transfer Recipient's located in multiple locations within the customers country to manufacture those subsystems in accordance with the terms of an Intellectual Property License Agreement.

This MEP role is unique, requiring a combination of project management experience, commercial and business acumen and an ability to deploy stakeholder management skills to support a diverse range of internal stakeholders, at all levels within MBDA, together with external suppliers and our customer's Transfer Recipient.

You will be required to travel to our office and customer community in Poland and Italy on a regular basis.

• Managing the delivery to the Customers Transfer Recipient of small to medium Technology Transfer projects by our MEP Suppliers to schedule, cost and quality.
• Maintenance of Transfer Recipient facing Statement of Work, including maintenance of the topicality of all deliverables and furnished items as well as minor updates.
• Ensuring that all Export Control authorisations, End User Undertakings, Licenses etc. for export of deliveries (services, documents and hardware) to the Transfer Recipient have been obtained in due time avoiding delays to programmes.
• Preparation and drafting of reports of progress of Transfer Packages, including drafting status reports (e.g. Quarterly) based on detailed inputs (e.g. Monthly reports,…