R&T Planning Lead

Job Description

In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world there is an even greater need to be effective in bringing cutting edge technology of tomorrow in the products of today, thus ensuring the UK can protects itself and friendly nations. Creating the future world we want to live in relies on effective planning today, delivered for the UK through this Research & Technology (R&T) Planning role and supporting team.

Salary: Circa £65,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 1 days per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance: British Citizen. 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: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• 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…
• Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.

The opportunity:

This role sits within a small close knit team in UK R&T but has broad linkages across every part of the business from Programmes to Technical Functions, Strategy to Future Systems & Emerging Technologies. It seeks to understand the future product R&T needs as well as influence the future product portfolio through facilitating appropriate tech push.

It coheres R&T planning views, working across the business to link technology developers to known and future programme needs. It owns the UK R&T relationships with the future systems and critical technology functions as well as UK R&T route map development. It plays a key part in UK R&T communication both at director level and more broadly seeking to maintain common views at delivery level escalating known challenges and supporting resolution implementation. It seeks to maintain effective technical and strategic relationships across the breadth of the business and in to UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to promote and encourage delivery of UK R&T needs.

What do you get in return? Visibility at all levels and engagement with cutting edge science & technologies. The opportunity to work as part of a small but engaging and supportive team. Broad awareness of the business and, through successful delivery of this role, significant impact across MBDA by ensuring that critical technologies are sufficiently matured and de-risked before key decision points are reached for major development programmes.

What we're looking for from you:

• Comfortable working in complex, broad, fluid and multifaceted landscapes
• Able to succinctly cohere detailed perspectives providing simple summaries (inc roadmaps)
• Ability to understand business level impacts / strategies and propose R&T research needs
• Strong passion for technology, collaboration & high levels of cultural sensitivity
• Interest in & passion for new & emerging technologies
• Ability to understand technology potential vs business strategy and devise business routes & ways of workings to realise that potential at pace

Note: Local support and development will be provided through on the job training and close working with others from the UK R&T team. So if you think you have the right behaviours and outlook we would be happy to teach the rest!

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