De&s Head of Equipment Plan Design

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 389939

**Salary**:

- £87,300 - £104,760
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- SCS Pay Band 1

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- MOD - Defence Equipment & Support

**Type of role**:

- Senior leadership

**Working pattern**:

- Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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Location
- DE&S HQ, MOD Abbey Wood, Filton, Bristol, BS34 8JH

About the job

**Job summary**:
We are delighted that you are interested in the **Head of Equipment Plan Design**role within DE&S.

You will be joining the team at an exciting time for DE&S, just as we stand up our new Operating Model to better support Defence in protecting our nation and helping it prosper.

This key senior role within the DE&S Gateway is wide-ranging and complex and covers the full span of DE&S’ c£130Bn Equipment Plan delivery portfolio. You will play a critical role in establishing a sustainable DE&S EP delivery portfolio that is integrated by design and deliverable in an operationally excellent way today, tomorrow, and in the future. You will interface our Mission Partners* establishing robust baseline control and delivery assurance in a more consistent and efficient way. This will include bringing knowledge of DE&S capacity and Defence priorities together to ensure that our delivery colleagues across DE&S remain focussed on Departmental priorities and that any residual delivery risk is coherently managed. Finally, you will create a single entry-point into DE&S, ensuring that all new or changed equipment acquisition and support demands are commissioned in a more coherent and considered way, offering the very best solutions to meet our Mission Partners’ needs.

**Job description**:
**Head of Equipment Plan Design has the following areas of responsibility**:

- Control the DE&S Equipment Plan (EP) Baseline: Acting as the single authority for establishing and maintaining the agreed DE&S EP Orderbook performance management baseline with Mission Partners as detailed in the Command Acquisition & Support Plans (CASPs).
- Provide an effective EP Performance Management interface for our Mission Partners: representing DE&S in the various formal Holding to Account (H2A) engagements with our Customers in terms of pan-portfolio performance, including management of emergent risks and/or opportunities.
- Build effective mechanisms for communications and engagement with colleagues across Core, Systems Integration and Corporate to provide an effective pan-Mission Partner interface into DE&S on EP related issues.
- Ensure sustainable delivery of the DE&S EP related Portfolio: Sustaining demand v supply balance in terms of DE&S workforce capability and capacity, working with Mission Partners and DE&S Corporate to make EP delivery prioritisation decisions as required.
- Improve overall EP Design through more proactive provision of DE&S / pan
- Enterprise insight and support to wider Defence / Government initiatives.
- Deliver more consistent, coherent and considered EP Change costing and planning service: Create and operate a single-entry point for all EP related change on behalf of DE&S, triaging, leading costing/planning and coordinating assurance of both changes to existing work and new work into the Portfolio.
- Work with wider Gateway and DE&S colleagues to commission work that is set up for success and clearly aligned with - and prioritised for - delivery of Defence outcomes.
- Deploy excellent servant leadership: Provide high challenge/high support to colleagues within Commissioning and across Gateway and wider DE&S to create the environment for success and excellent behaviours and culture.

**Person specification**:
**Behavioural**:

- Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion - Demonstrable visible leadership, with a proactive commitment to diversity and inclusion and demonstrable experience of creating and maintaining a psychologically safe and inclusive environment.
- Leading through Change - Demonstrable evidence of confidently leading people, challenging cultures and leading change.
- Being Accountable - Evidence of accepting and responding to challenges from stakeholders and colleagues in a constructive manner

**Technical**:

- Successful track record of delivery in the most demanding programme/portfolio roles that will elicit the confidence of Partners and Senior Leadership across the Defence Enterprise and Government.
- Strategic thinking with sound financial and commercial acumen and an ability to translate into efficient and sustainable plans of programme and/or operational delivery.
- The ability to managing competing priorities, influencing decisions and challenging behaviours at senior levels.

**Desirable Qualifications and registrations**:

- Membership or Chartered Status in a relevant Professional Institute
- Recognised Project and Programme Management Qualification, e.g. MPLA,