Project director

Strategic Project Director (DV Cleared)

Location: London UK (travel required between sites)

Clearance:*You must hold active DV Clearance*

Role Overview

Provide senior accountability for the consolidation of a Top Secret (TS) digital workplace, bringing desktop and deskside services from four agencies into a single, secure service model under a new contract. Working from bid stage through mobilisation and delivery, you will define the approach to integration and transition and oversee delivery of a complex, multi‑agency programme spanning technology, service operations, security, and adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end transformation from bid through delivery, ensuring solutions are designed for execution, with clear transition, mobilisation, and operating model strategies.
• Shape the solution and commercial model with architects, finance, and legal, ensuring delivery viability within TS constraints.
• Lead executive stakeholder engagement, risk assessment, and dependency modelling.
• Lead end to end transformation from bid through delivery, ensuring solutions are designed for execution, with clear transition, mobilisation, and operating model strategies.
• Partner with bid teams to shape and refine complex solutions, working across technical, commercial, finance, and legal functions to develop integrated, deliver ready proposals.
• Establish governance and assurance from bid stage onwards, ensuring auditability, compliance, and effective decision-making across the programme lifecycle
• Run programme governance (Boards, Design Authorities, CABs) with strong auditability.
• Track and realise benefits across cost, risk, performance, and user experience.

Essential Experience

• *Active DV Clearance required*
• Proven large scale technology or service end to end transformation
• Consultancy background preferred
• Proven delivery from bid through mobilisation, transition, transformation, and BAU handover.
• Experience translating winning bids into executable mobilisation and transformation programmes, ensuring alignment between bid commitments and delivery outcomes.
• Experience operating in Top Secret / DV or equivalently regulated environments (government, defence, intelligence).
• Strong executive stakeholder management, including CISOs, CTOs, COOs, and Agency leadership.
• Demonstrated programme leadership delivering complex outcomes on time, on budget, and with assurance.

Desired Experience:

• Worked on bids up to the value of £50 Million