Regional Programme Director UK/EUR

• Provide integrated, multi-functional leadership across a diverse portfolio, translating strategy and growth opportunities into high-quality, predictable outcomes for customers and the business
• Be accountable for the overall health of the portfolio, including performance, profitability, and governance across a range of programmes and contracts
• Make confident, well-balanced decisions within your delegated authority, aligning priorities across bids, delivery, resourcing, and investment to protect margin, manage risk, and ensure consistently strong delivery performance
• Lead and develop a group of Heads of Programmes, supporting them as effective cross-functional leaders within a matrix environment
• Set clear expectations, establish a strong operating rhythm, and drive consistency in standards, performance, and ways of working across programme areas
• Shape future work, working closely with business development colleagues to ensure opportunities are deliverable, commercially sound, and appropriately resourced
• Support mobilisation and setting programmes up for success from the outset

• You are an established senior leader with experience operating at pace in a matrix environment, comfortable making decisions, trading priorities, and driving outcomes through others
• You bring strong commercial and financial understanding, with a clear view of how project and contract performance connects to regional gross profit and wider P&L outcomes
• You have led complex, multi‑disciplinary delivery portfolios and intervened early and calmly when performance has drifted
• Your experience includes working in defence contexts alongside credible delivery in competitive commercial markets, and you have helped broaden portfolios and scale delivery through repeatable approaches, partnerships, and improved efficiency
• You are recognised for your ability to align diverse stakeholders, unblock issues across functions, and create momentum around shared goals
• You value consistent standards, clear governance, and people‑centred leadership, and you set a strong tone around wellbeing, safety, and security in delivery environments

Experience delivering in defence contexts, or transferable experience from commercial sectors such as maritime, ports and marine infrastructure, energy transition, or other complex, competitive markets

• Private Medical Insurance (including family cover)
• Enhanced Pension
• 18 weeks’ enhanced maternity pay (after 1 year’s service)
• Family‑friendly policies
• Inclusive and supportive culture
• Annual Wellbeing Fund for hobbies and personal interests
• 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
• Holiday trading
• Retail and lifestyle discounts
• Professional subscriptions paid