Location
Horse Guards Ave, London

Hours
37 hours per week

Salary
£81,360 per annum

About the Role
This role sits at the heart of the Defence Nuclear Enterprise (DNE), responsible for delivering and sustaining the UK’s nuclear deterrent and submarine programmes—one of the Government’s highest national security priorities. The DNE is a unique partnership across Defence and industry, including the Defence Nuclear Organisation (DNO), Royal Navy, Strategic Command, Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Submarine Delivery Group (SDG), and key civil partners. With an annual budget exceeding £10bn, the DNE is undergoing a once-in-a-generation transformation to improve integration, pace, and coherence across delivery.

The Enterprise Portfolio Team (EPT) plays a pivotal role in this transformation by optimising across six DNE portfolios to manage risk, maximise value, and translate strategic intent into delivery outcomes. The EPT delivers this through four core capabilities: Enterprise Portfolio Office, Enterprise Analytics and Insight, Project Delivery Function, and Project Delivery Profession.

As Head of Management Information (MI) and Reporting, you will lead a team of specialists to develop and deliver a coherent, enterprise-wide approach to MI and reporting. You will ensure senior leaders have the clarity and confidence needed to make critical investment and delivery decisions, strengthening enterprise performance, improving transparency, and embedding a professional approach to project delivery across the DNE.

This is a high-impact leadership role requiring collaboration across organisational boundaries in a highly secure environment. Hybrid and flexible working is supported where possible, but regular on-site attendance is required. The role involves access to very sensitive information and requires additional security checks and Developed Vetting clearance.

Experience
- Proven track record in project, programme, and portfolio management.
- Leading development of robust and reliable MI and reporting for senior leaders.
- Use of data and MI tools such as PowerBI, PowerQuery, Palantir, Tableau.
- Complex stakeholder management and collaborative working with senior leaders.
- Ability to influence and communicate across organisational boundaries at all levels, including data visualisation and clear insight communication.

About you
- Strategic leader with experience in MI, reporting, and project delivery.
- Team player with strong relationship-building skills.
- Articulate communicator able to simplify technical language.
- Committed to promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) and continuous improvement.

Qualifications
- Essential: Relevant project delivery qualification (e.g. bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), APM Qualification, PRINCE2, Agile, Management of Portfolios).
- Desirable: Relevant Data, MI and reporting qualifications (e.g. Certified Business Intelligence Professional, Certified Data Scientist, Certified Analytics Professional, Certified Data Governance Professional).
- Desirable skills include advanced Microsoft 365, Government Project Delivery Accreditation, knowledge of Defence or similar sectors, and experience with R, Python, SQL, PowerApps, Azure, Dataverse/Fabric.