Dependency Manager

Dependency Manager

Hybrid, Whiteley Hampshire

Leidos is seeking a skilled Dependency Manager to join the Programme Management Office (PMO) of a major programme. This key role will take ownership of both contractual and internal dependencies, ensuring seamless delivery across multiple workstreams.

The successful candidate will operate within a structured contractual framework, proactively identifying and managing risks that could impact programme outcomes.

Clearance Required: This role will require attainment and maintenance of SC clearance

The role:

• Manage, track and coordinate dependencies across internal workstreams and external contractual obligations to ensure alignment with programme milestones.
• Develop and maintain a dependency register, providing visibility and clarity to senior stakeholders.
• Assess and highlight risks associated with dependencies, escalating issues promptly and recommending mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with programme leads, suppliers, and partners to ensure contractual commitments are met and integrated into delivery plans.
• Support governance processes within the PMO, ensuring dependency management aligns with programme controls and reporting standards.

What does Leidos need for me?

• Proven experience in dependency management within large, complex programmes or projects.
• Strong understanding of contractual frameworks and the ability to manage obligations across multiple suppliers and stakeholders.
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder engagement skills, capable of influencing at all levels.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a structured approach to tracking and resolving issues.
• Familiarity with PMO Governance processes, reporting standards, and programme controls.
• Excellent risk management skills, with the ability to identify, assess and mitigate risks related to dependencies.

Location: This is a Hybrid role. This role will have an element of working from home or Leidos Facility, with frequent travel to customer sites in the South of England.

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & Europe – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.