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.

Job Title: IT Leader – Project Manager

Salary: Circa £65,000 with executive car allowance and benefits on top.

What you’ll be doing:

• Overseeing and managing a portfolio of IT projects, ensuring the alignment with organisational goals and objectives whilst prioritising based on strategic value, resource availability, and risk.
• Collaborating with senior leadership to define portfolio strategy, ensuring it aligns with business objectives, reviewing and adjusting the portfolio to respond to changes in business strategy or external factors.
• Manage a team of project managers and allocate them across the portfolio to ensure optimal use of skills and capabilities to provide leadership, guidance and mentoring.
• Develop, manage and track portfolio budget and performance ensuring that projects are delivered within financial constraints.
• Regularly report on the status, health, performance of the portfolio to executive leadership.
• Implement and maintain governance frameworks to ensure consistent project delivery across the portfolio.
• Develop the skills and capabilities of the project management team, identifying training and development needs.

Your skills and experiences:

• Have a proven track record of delivering large scale IT programmes and be able to apply good financial acumen, strategic thinking, excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven leadership skills with experience managing a team of Project Managers and working cross-functionally to support delivery.
• Have a strong understanding/knowledge of current IT trends and technologies.

Desirable:

• AMP, PRINCE2, Chartered PM.
• Have experience in the Engineering Industry.

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 Project Management Team:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team, foster new and existing relationships across a large Enterprise and deliver Projects that improve the Build, Test & Commissioning of Submarines. 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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 12th 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.