Job Description
R27528 Head of Integrated Planning - Trials, Tests & Evaluation (TT&E)\n\nClosing date: 13 July 2025\n\nLocation: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.\n\nPackage: Competitive leadership salary depending on experience, plus various other benefits including a generous holiday allowance, performance related bonus & an additional flexible benefit scheme.\n\nWorking pattern: Primarily an onsite position but there is the scope to work from home dependent on business needs. AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight, applications from candidates wishing to work full or part-time will be considered.\n\nReady to play your part? \n\nAt AWE, it's not just a job, it's far more than that.
Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe. Could this role be the opportunity for you to play your part? \n\nReporting directly to the General Manager for Trials, Tests & Evaluation (TT&E), the Head of Integrated Planning is a strategic leadership position responsible for ensuring alignment between strategic objectives and requirements and operational execution through a multi-tiered planning approach aligned to senior engagement, manufacturing alignment and control, and manufacturing execution.
You will lead the engagement and integration of the TT&E master plan with the enterprise level Strategic Warhead Enterprise Plan (SWEP) through collaboration with several delivery areas infrastructure, engineering planning and across all the business units.\n\nYou will work as part of the TT&E senior leadership team as well as across Business Units with the wider operational planning community of practice to support the implementation and continuous improvement of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Master Production Scheduling (MPS) across the Business Units.\n\nThis includes:\n\nDriving senior-level engagement to ensure planning decisions are informed, aligned, and strategically sound.\n\nCoordinating cross-functional planning activities, integrating demand, supply, and capacity planning to optimise manufacturing performance.\n\nEnsuring seamless alignment and control across manufacturing operations, from strategic long-range planning to day-to-day execution.\n\nChampioning data-driven decision-making, fostering transparency and agility across the planning cycle.\n\nThis is a pivotal leadership role that bridges strategic intent with operational delivery-ensuring the Business Unit remains responsive, efficient, and future-ready.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nProvide the overall integrated master schedule control for a Business Unit, aggregating and managing demand over the short, medium and long term, which incorporates balancing multiple requirements (e.g. maintenance, capital works) to ensure we deliver to customer requirements.\n\nDirect support for the General Manager including providing subject matter expertise into the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, feeding from the operational planning team, and integrating with programmes and the Strategic Warhead Enterprise Plan. You will be overseeing the strategic long-term view of the plan through to implementation.\n\nLead the transformation of the business unit as part of the wider AWE transformation and change management.\n\nProvision of Management Information and reporting to support Business Unit decision making and upward reporting of KPIs and delivery into the AWE Executive and MOD customer governance.
Key interface to ePMO, Warhead PMO, Infrastructure delivery Unit and Transformation programmes for overarching Business Unit capacity planning/ prioritisation/ deconfliction/ integration.\n\nOverseeing and driving the financial performance of the Business Unit on behalf of the General Manager, including the analysis of information from the product, demand, supply and finance reviews to generate financial forecasts and the identification of efficiencies and risks.\n\nMonitor and manage risk, assumptions and issues ensuring that appropriate mitigations are delivered at pace to support delivery.\n\nWho are we looking for?\n\nRequirements\n\nDegree educated or similar attainment level demonstrated through experience.\n\nExtensive project or operational planning experience. Experience leading business transformation and change management within a matrix environment.\n\nOverseeing and managing budgets and the ability to operate within a changing financial environment.\n\nOverseeing and communicating risk management at a strategic level.\n\nProvide inspirational leadership to a team with diverse skills and experience and build and lead a high performing team through a period of change.\n\nReporting - collating management information and translating it into insights at a strategic level to influence across stakeholders and the organisation.\n\nExcellent stakeholder management skills; building and maintaining strong and positive relationships at all levels, including with senior leaders, customers, suppliers, and other external partners.\n\nWhilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:\n\nExperience of working in a TT&E environment.\n\nBroad understanding of a manufacturing and/or regulatory environment.\n\nDeep knowledge in planning processes: demand planning, supply planning, manufacturing flow, material planning and S&OP process.\n\nManage programmes, schedules and plans, and positively respond to changing circumstances with agility and resilience.\n\nProject and programme planning qualifications/ a member of a professional body.\n\nKnowledge of Project Management (tools techniques, practices) and knowledge of commercial and finance.\n\nProven experience in implementing and continuous improvement of sales and operations planning processes.\n\nManagement and interpretation of operational performance information.\n\nKnowledge and experience of enterprise ERP/ MRP systems and SAP.\n\nStrong analytical skills, ensuring that that decisions are made by guided problem solving, and are informed by policies, procedures and business plan.\n\nYou see yourself as having a strategic and proactive approach to managing obstacles. We welcome a visionary leader with a 'growth mindset' to push the boundaries of what's possible.
You'll be joining us at a pivotal time, with the chance to shape the future direction of AWE through exciting technical projects.\n\nAdditional requirements:\n\nWillingness to undertake UK and overseas travel.\n\nAbility to obtain and maintain necessary security clearance.\n\nDV clearance is required for this position