Technology Programme Manager

Job Description

Job title: Technology Programme Manager

Location: Across all our UK Land sites including Glascoed, Radway Green or Washington

Salary: £57,000 depending on experience

What you'll be doing:

• Provide professional Project Management across a wide range of technology projects and programmes
• Accountable for delivery of the projects and programmes and results of the team
• Identify develop follow on business opportunities related to their products or processes
• Financially plan and achieve acceptable business financial objectives for orders, sales, gross margin and cash
• Establish and maintain strong customer and supplier relationships maintaining regular communications and managing expectations
• Responsible for ensuring that accurate forward load data is derived for projects from the business toolsets
• Monitor and report project/programme performance for schedule, technical, financial and quality objectives

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Strong Programme management experience
• Experience working as a Programme Manager on complex projects/programmes with extensive knowledge of Project Management (tools, techniques, practices) ideally from a comparable industry (Defence/Manufacturing/Engineering sector)
• Ability to manage customer relationships and work in ambiguous environments

Desirable:

• Technical background (in an engineering field)
• Degree-level qualification (engineering discipline preferred) or comparable experience in the engineering/manufacturing sector, with demonstrable Project Management delivery experience, ideally from a comparable industry (defence)
• Formal training in Project Management (accredited by APM, PMI or PRINCE), with knowledge of scheduling and risk software tools (e.g. MS Project & Predict!), and experience of SAP

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 Technology team:

Working with a team of technology delivery managers, you will develop and manage a diverse portfolio of technology projects for external and internal customers to achieve on time delivery of product or milestones, within cost and budget to the agreed quality standard. Through the development of effective relationships across functions, sites, internal and external stakeholders, you will play a leading role in the swift and effective resolution of programme issues.

You will establish the priority setting/balancing of a number of project teams on a daily/weekly basis. As Programme Manager, you will work with functional colleagues, be responsible for the management of resources and work packages ensuring that competent people are available to satisfy project requirements, whilst maintaining effective resource utilisation.

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.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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: 9th May 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.