IT Leader – Project Management

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Job Title: IT Leader – Project Management

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £60,000 plus, depending on skills and experience with car allowance and bonus on top

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing project budget, forecasting and progression


• Creating, reviewing and submitting business cases and bid proposals


• Controlling and directing resources to meet business and functional priorities whilst managing the performance of deployed multi-disciplinary project team


• Operating Project/Programme management processes for Risk, Issue, Dependency and Actions


• Chair Steering Boards and other governance processes


• Continuously work on improving our Processes, controls and strategy


• Supporting the generation of Product Delivery Roadmaps


• Executing functional / product group financial control processes and forecasting

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Good project management experience


• Forecasting and budgetary control experience


• Agile Method / SAFE Method Experience


• Strong Stakeholder management skills

Desirable

• Experience of Siemens Portfolio of Products is desired

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The IT Project Management team:

By joining the team, you will be working with our customers and partners to deliver innovative enabling technologies to our major programmes – defining and standardising our ways of working to ensure that our projects are successful and meet the expectations of our business. You will have overall control of large-scale transformation and implementation projects across the engineering community.

We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 4th November 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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