HR Manager

Job Title: HR 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: £61,110+ (Depending on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Build strong relationships with leadership and stakeholders to align HR support with business strategy and objectives
• Develop and implement the People and Organisation Strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals
• Design and deliver the tactical People Plan supporting strategic goals and specific HR projects
• Provide coaching and guidance to senior leaders on key HR areas including Employee Relations and Talent Management
• Lead coach and develop the HR team, fostering personal growth and high performance
• Use people data and market trends to identify risks and opportunities, and inform the People Plan
• Coordinate HR solutions from internal teams and third parties to meet business and stakeholders needs and deliver the People Plan effectively
• Sponsor and drive complex business change projects ensuring alignment with HR strategy and objectives

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Knowledge and experience in HR capability areas including reward, performance cycles, organisation design, employee relations, and talent management
• Experience working across multiple business and functional areas and building strong stakeholder relationships, including within a matrix organisation and a unionised environment
• Strong understanding of industry trends, competitor landscape, and challenges facing the defence sector
• Ability to prioritise competing demands, meet tight deadlines, and work autonomously while collaborating with HR Leads and teams

Desirable:

• CIPD qualification or equivalent experience
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including negotiation, influencing, and active listening
• Ability to interpret people data into insights for key stakeholders and inform decision-making
• Personal resilience and ability to navigate challenging conversations to uphold HR governance

Benefits:

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

The HR Team:

Join a dynamic and collaborative HR team at BAE Systems Air Sector, where you’ll work alongside passionate and talented professionals dedicated to driving people and organisational success. As an HR Manager, you will partner with key leadership stakeholders and HR colleagues to shape and implement impactful people strategies that support business goals. Our team operates at the heart of business performance, ensuring a seamless people experience HR delivery across all aspects of our function. With a strong emphasis on collaboration, innovation, and adding value, you’ll be part of a supportive environment that empowers you to make a real difference while growing your career in a globally respected organisation.

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, people from 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: 14th March 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.