Manage government-facing defence contracts in Oxford with confident stakeholder leadership, cost control, and risk escalation. The role offers a hybrid office and home-working arrangement.

This established employer delivers complex, multi-year programmes for government and MOD-linked clients within a large enterprise operation. As a senior Defence Project Manager, you will coordinate multiple workstreams and maintain contractual delivery discipline. Your background should include defence, aerospace, or another regulated government sector.

Key Responsibilities:

- Coordinate cross-functional engineering and procurement teams
- Engage senior stakeholders and government client representatives
- Control programme budgets, forecasts, and schedules




- Escalate project issues before they become problems
- Lead governance and preserve contract documentation

Requirements:

- Prior project management experience in regulated government environments
- Working PRINCE2 or APM framework knowledge
- Eligibility for security clearance at SC/DV level
- Solid stakeholder management across technical audiences
- Financial literacy for large-programme cost control

Apply your defence project management, stakeholder, and financial skills to Oxford-based programmes with government and MOD-linked clients.

📌 Government Defence Project Manager (Oxford)
🏢 The Opportunity Hub UK
📍 Oxford