IT Project Manager

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Guildford || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Gloucester || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Leeds || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London

Job Title: IT Project Manager – Maternity Cover

Location: London/Guildford/Gloucester or Leeds - Hybrid

This role is expected to be based both in the office and homeworking, ideally 3 days in the office and 2 remote with potential travel both within and outside the UK.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Work with key stakeholders to understand the business needs and create a project management plan to align with the same.
• Work with the teams and stakeholders to initiate project requests and prepare business cases for financial and business benefit approval.
• Create project schedules, allocate resources and manage progression to plan, supporting the allocated members with their tasks, managing RAID, scope, budgets and using Change Control for baseline deviations ad re-sets.
• Align and maintain alignment of project objectives with company goals, and make sure the project documentation, ensuring traceability of governance and assurance applied throughout the project lifecycle.
• Work on multiple projects simultaneously, across various geographical regions.
• Foster partnerships with customers, stakeholders and sponsors, whilst ensuring that appropriate communication and project reporting forums and processes are in place.
• Manage the project inputs and outputs whilst assuring quality standards in accordance with the baselined PMP and in-house governance and assurance processes.
• Manage the process of risk identification, mitigation, and the resolution of issues realised.
• Managing team size of 5 to 20 resources (matrix), project duration most often 5+ months, budget from multiple N*£100k up to £1m.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Security Clearance [SC minimum] or capable of achieving
• Prince Practitioner, APM Project Management (PMQ) and MSP qualifications.
• Experience working with individuals in different geographical locations and technical disciplines.
• Experience working on Site Transformations and Business Integration/Change preferred.
• The ideal candidate is available to travel within the UK and potentially abroad if required.
• The ideal candidate is someone who has technical skills and will not shy away from assisting with hands-on work if needed.
• Experience of working on multiple projects of differing size and complexity to meet business expectations and deliver successfully against agreed and traceable requirements.
• Self-motivated and proactive with exceptional organisation, influencing, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Confident and able to liaise and influence at all levels within the company and/or relevant customer and third parties.
• Demonstrable experience of the production of MSP schedules defining stages, phases, tasks, dependencies, milestones and assigned resource capacity planning.
• Confident stakeholder management and influencing skills and experience across all levels, and all skillsets within the project initiation and delivery journeys whether internal, customer, or third parties.
  
  

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive

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