Sarah Thygesen

Project Support and Project Management Office (PMO) professional with 5 years' experience supporting complex defence programmes within Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) and defence industry environments. Experienced in programme governance, board management, stakeholder engagement, events coordination and delivery assurance across multi-disciplinary teams. Strong background working within Programme / PMO environments, supporting senior project and programme leaders to deliver outputs in line with Ministry of Defence MOD governance, reporting and assurance requirements.

Comfortable working in high-security, high-pressure environments, maintaining accurate documentation, tracking risks and milestones, project reporting and engaging with stakeholders across multiple organisations. SC cleared and experienced supporting high-value, high-sensitivity defence projects.

Consultant - Sagentia Defence - UK

(2001-01 - 2026-06)

Project Support / Project Manager – DE&S, MOD – SALMO Programme - Sagentia Defence

Supported delivery of Salvage & Marine Operations (SALMO) capability within the Ships Domain programme, providing project support across Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) and Remote Operated Vehicles (ROV) delivery teams.

• Supported lead Project Managers and wider delivery team across programme activities
• Maintained RAID logs, action trackers and milestone reporting
• Recorded project history, decisions and changes in line with governance requirements
• Coordinated stakeholder meetings, reviews and reporting updates
• Supported industry engagement competition in accordance with MOD procurement rules
• Managed stakeholder communications and documentation at SECRET classification
• Prepared weekly reporting material for senior stakeholders
• Coordinated responses to Urgent Change Requests (UCR) and Future Change Request (FCR) requests within demanding timelines

PMO / Project Support – DE&S, MOD – MDIS Programme - Sagentia Defence

Provided PMO and governance support to a major MOD capability investigation programme delivering evidence for future defence capability decisions.

• Supported Programme Lead, Deputy Lead and Workstream Leads
• Coordinated Programme Board (1*) and Sponsor Board (2*) meetings
• Prepared and issued board packs in line with communication plan
• Captured and distributed Record of Actions and Decisions (RoADs)
• Maintained programme governance documentation and Terms of Reference
• Custodian of DefenceShare, collaborative information platform
• Maintained stakeholder lists and organisation charts
• Supported major stakeholder events including symposium and distinguished visitors' day
• Managed programme reporting dashboards and information flow

Project Support – DE&S, MOD – Project Marshall - Sagentia Defence

Provided project management support on Project Marshall, a £1.9bn MOD service delivery programme covering multiple UK and overseas sites.

• Supported delivery of programme outputs in line with governance requirements
• Co-ordinated and managed high level decision meetings
• Identified, raised, monitored risks and the impact to the project delivery
• Maintained milestone tracking and reporting
• Managed Data Delivery Packs for nominated sites
• Supported contract and supplier monitoring
• Provided KPI reporting and progress updates
• Extensive stakeholder engagement across MOD and suppliers
• Reporting on project schedule progress and key milestones
• Supported project controls meetings and reporting

P3M Consultant - Sagentia Defence

Provided project controls and PMO support to software and capability delivery teams.

• Supported project planning, reporting and documentation
• Monitored cost, schedule and resource forecasts
• Maintained risk and issue logs
• Supported quality management and audit preparation
• Assisted with project health checks and baseline monitoring

P3M Consultant - Airbus Defence & Space

(2020-02 - 2020-12)

Provided project support during large-scale Windows 10 rollout programme.

• Maintained project schedule and milestone tracking
• Coordinated engineers across multiple sites
• Prepared KPI and performance reports
• Managed customer communications
• Created project support documentation used as internal guidance

APM Project Fundamentals Qualification - Association for Project Management

Member - Association for Project Management

IOSH

RSA II