Job title: Head of Strategic Projects

Location: Portsmouth, New Malden, Farnborough, Filton - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £80,000+ depending on skills and experience

Referral Scheme Bonus: £1,000

Grade: GG15

What you’ll be doing:

• Delivery of complex systems to operational ships and test sites to time, cost and quality
• Holding significant delivery and financial responsibilities in a local business and enterprise context
• Development and delivery of related strategic business threads and tactical actions.
• Senior stakeholder management and communications across the defence enterprise
• Project management including planning, tracking, and resource forecasting and reporting
• Project and business accounting, business case development and budgeting
• Proposal development and estimating
• Supplier management and engagement
• Oversight of contracts to MoD and supply chain
• Safety and risk assessments for working environments and CONDO for deployed teams

Your skills and experiences:

• Delivering from within a MoD organisation with a good understanding of MoD business processes
• Experience of delivering complex projects for large matrix organisations in a naval environment
• Business acumen and commercially astute
• Suitable candidate should have a naval business background
• Experience in managing resource, risks, costs and outcomes
• APM / ChPP is desirable

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 team:

It’s a new role that will provide balance for the project team and enable to scale up the business by representing customer voice and ideas – it is to be viewed as start-up initially with the support of the wider business functions, with initial emphasis on stakeholder engagement, strategy development and then programme delivery into the wider enterprise.

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.