IT Project Manager

BAE Systems; Tamworth; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 61,000

Job description

Job title: IT Project Manager

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

Salary: £54,793-£60,326 (dependent on skills and experience).

What you’ll be doing:

• Direct experience of managing application integration.
• Ensuring delivery of IT projects to time, cost and quality.
• Ensuring seamless integration between projects, including transition into Business-as-Usual support.
• Accurate reporting of project status to team members, leadership, and external stakeholders.
• Managing customer, partner, and supplier relationships.
• Effective management of RAID.
• Developing and tracking project plans, budget, and schedule.
• Ensuring business, project, and quality management processes are effectively applied across projects.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Proven experience in Software Delivery, with a strong understanding of Project Lifecycle Management (LCM), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), and Agile/Waterfall methodologies.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage, influence, and guide senior stakeholders across multiple teams.
• Strong analytical and reporting abilities to support effective decision-making and project success.

Desirable:

• Professional Project Management certification (e.g., APM, Prince 2).
• Experience leading integration projects, ensuring seamless connectivity between systems and technologies.

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.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Competency Centre:

The ERP Competency Centre is a rapidly growing team within the Air Sector, delivering significant business transformations. With a newly established scope, the team is expanding its capability to support multiple strategic programmes of work. Growth is driven by initiatives to remove obsolescence, enhance system integration, and deliver significant business benefits.

The team is focused on driving digital innovation, embracing cloud technology where possible. Responsible for managing multiple transformation projects, the team plays a crucial role in supporting the Air Sector’s IT strategy and future technological advancements.

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: 15th April 2025.

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.