Peter Edwards Email & Phone Number

Preston, Gb

Barrow-In-Furness, England, United Kingdom

Barrow-In-Furness, England, United Kingdom

• Leading and managing the Programme Alliance Team (MoD, BAES & Rolls Royce) covering the platform design and site redevelopment to fulfil both the client and joint programme management roles.• Developing collaborative working relationships across a diverse and embryonic multi-party organisation, establishing effective ways of working to ensure optimised organisation design, coherence of approach and trust.• Challenging the industrial parties and holding them to account across all aspects of performance, cost & time.• Driving improvement in delivery to the baselines for cost, schedule and risk mitigation.• Chairmanship and development of all key contractual and performance management forums.• Developing procurement strategies for new tranches of scope in line with maturing cost, risk & uncertainty, ensuring alignment to overall Alliance vision, mission and objectives for the programme.• Developing and shaping an optimised governance framework for the management of the programme.• Functional leadership and guidance for the Project Management community across the Alliance.

Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Samlesbury, Preston

Responsible for the establishment and leadership of the integrated management hub of the F-35 sustainment business for the UK Customer. Key responsibilities:• Design, build and resource an effective organisation construct to deliver the UK F35 business across multiple locations• Establish and maintain an effective Project Management governance framework for the UK F-35 business• Drive the completion of the F-35 baseline solution design, ensuring effective definition, documentation and handover to the Operational delivery teams• Leadership a virtual team spanning multiple industry partners in UK & US, integrating the solution deliverables provided through multiple sources to ensure delivery of a coherent output based service to the customer.• Build and fostering enduring relationships with the UK customer by ensuring exemplar service delivery under extremely challenging resource and cost constraints• Contract ownership maximising business returns whilst striving to meet & exceed customer expectations• Leadership and drive of the cross functional bid management team to ensure the timely progression of identified and emerging contract changes • Collaboration with the US based organisation to drive the identification, development and securing of follow on business opportunities for BAES

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

• European lead for BAE Systems driving the strategic direction and shaping of the future international framework of the sustainment business for the UK fleet of Typhoon aircraft.• Nurturing of existing customer relationships to pave the way to a ten year Future Support availability contract for the UK customer worth over £2 bn.• Acting as sole company interface into the European industry and customer agencies, leading the transformation of the operating model away from the traditional Eurofighter GmbH led consortium to more innovative contracting models in the complex international supply chain to meet stringent UK customer budget pressures.

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Leadership & management of Eurofighter strategy and delivery for Spares, Industrial Exchange/Repair Service and Contractor on base support facilities across International Air Force operating bases. Accountability for both current and future business value streams (circa €4 Bn). • Leadership of the internationally dispersed, multi-disciplined team over four companies/countries.• Industry team lead with the four-nation customer agency for both current and future operational support value streams (circa €2.5Bn turnover over 5 years), encompassing all bid management and contract delivery activities.• Chairmanship of all key multi-nation contractual, technical and performance managements reviews.• Launched and championed through both the customer and supply chain base an innovative pilot contract for the provision of a €700M integrated avionics availability repair service solution for Radar & DASS equipment across the challenging four nation programme, in parallel with the new €650M repairs contract overcoming some challenging customer funding issues.• Collaborative leadership across the Europe wide operational landscape to ensure the effective control, utilisation and funding of all NETMA owned assets across the programme.• Joint collaborative leadership alongside my NETMA counterparts of the future materiel support landscape initiative supporting the drive from a Ministerial Task Force to achieve significant savings across the Typhoon platform support domain.

Samlesbury, Preston

Customer focussed role with full responsibility and accountability for the management and delivery of the ‘Off Aircraft’ ground based infrastructure elements of a major aircraft upgrade programme to a demanding Middle Eastern Customer. The role comprised the leadership and management of a complex portfolio of five major projects with an overall value of £500M plus, ensuring delivery to time, cost and quality requirements.

Warton, Preston

An executive level customer focussed role (reporting to the Programme Manager) with full responsibility and accountability for the management and delivery of the design/development activities and production deliveries for a major export fast jet upgrade programme. The role comprised the integration of four separate projects with an overall value of £100M+, ensuring delivery to time, cost and quality requirements.