GCAP - Internal Assurance and Improvement Manager

Job Description:

Leonardo is a global industrial group, among the main global players in Aerospace, Defence and Security that realises multi-domain technological capabilities in Helicopters, Aircraft, Aerostructures, Electronics, Cyber Security and Space. With over 60,000 employees worldwide, the company has a solid industrial presence in Italy, the UK, Poland and the US. It also operates in 150 countries through subsidiaries, joint ventures and investments. A key player in major international strategic programmes, it is a technological and industrial partner of governments, defence administrations, institutions and companies.

We are looking for a: Internal Assurance and Improvement Manager who is available for an indicative period of two years in the UK, before returning to one of Leonardo Italia's sites.

Site: Torino Corso Francia

Responsibilities:

Provides the leadership driven assurance for: functional, independent assurance, leading process assurance development and data quality frameworks. This approach supports the improvement of PM&C systems, processes, data and people, while focusing on improving the quality culture within the entire PM&C community, assuring compliance and adherence to both processes and standards.

Accountabilities include (but are not limited to):

• Definition and development of assurance framework;
• Analyse existing processes to verify their compliance to required standards;
• Roll out the assurance framework to keep track of process compliance, performance, and adherence to agreed standards;
• Provide audit and review provisions that are conducted periodically to achieve consistency and areas of improvement;
• Produce integrated audit and assurance plan to structure and consolidate all assurance and audit activities on PM processes;
• Support Quality and Audit function in programme compliance monitoring and reporting;
• Identify possible areas of processes improvements and define corrective actions;
• Monitor the effectiveness of processes implemented changes ensuring issues resolution;
• Ensure PM processes compliance with laws and internal policies and regulations;
• Develop and maintain assurance tools that allow to assess process control effectiveness;
• Provide the functional centre of excellence for assurance from a PM&C perspective;
• Manage team performance and code of conduct in accordance with the company policies;
• Provide strategic view for assurance to support business planning and objectives;
• Perform the second line of assurance validation in support of the business quality policy.

Objectives (Sample)

• Achieve xx% compliance with all governance standards by xx;
• Reduce governance-related non-compliance incidents by xx%;
• Establish means for continuous monitoring and enhancement of processes;
• Using feedback loops, performance data, and evolving best practices;
• Provide a structured assurance system for the function which includes independent oversight in the appropriate areas.  This structures in line 1 the compliance checks, line 2 are effectiveness checks and in line 3 contain fully independent/external assurance and audit.

Requirements:

• Professional certifications; example: PMP (Project Management Professional), PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM (Association for Project Management);
• Bachelor’s or higher degree in relevant subject;
• Leadership skills with experience in managing and mentoring a team and engaging with several stakeholders;
• Ability to establish assurance framework, plan and methods;
• Relevant Experience in developing and implementing assurance frameworks;
• Knowledge of compliance standards (example: ISO);
• Excellent knowledge of Office tools and solutions used for governance assurance.

Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Seniority: Expert

Attitudes:

• Decision Making;
• Attitude for teamwork;
• Ability to work under pressure;
• Flexibility and ability to adapt
• Orientation towards problem solving, activity planning and deadline management;
• Dynamism Autonomy and proactivity;
• Availability for travel.

Language skills

• English: excellent written and spoken;
• Italian: excellent written and spoken.

Computer skills:

• Excellent knowledge of Office tools;

Other:

Working with us you will be able to continuously face new challenges and high technological experiences constantly increasing competencies and knowledge.

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