Lead Project Professional

Job Title: Lead Project Professional

Location: Preston Lancashire or Frimley Surrey. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £57,500+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead small projects or manage work packages within larger projects, ensuring successful delivery
• Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks throughout the full project lifecycle to ensure customer and user needs are met while delivering financial and other key benefits
• Apply project management methodologies and tools, whether predictive (plan-driven) or adaptive (iterative/agile), to deliver outcomes effectively
• Collaborate with stakeholders to agree on project approaches, prepare realistic plans, and track activities against schedules while maintaining stakeholder engagement
• Prepare detailed reporting dashboards and packs, provide accurate data, and generate insights to facilitate effective decision-making—both ad hoc and for routine governance meetings
• Consolidate expertise from various sources, including third-party specialists, to deliver cohesive advice that supports organisational objectives
• Support and promote the development and sharing of specialist knowledge within the organisation

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• In-depth knowledge of project management policies, processes, procedures, and systems, with proven professional experience in managing projects
• Proficient in applying project management tools, techniques, and best practices
• Skilled at influencing internal stakeholders to drive business success
• Exceptional communication skills – oral, written, and presentation. Able to articulate complex ideas to diverse audiences in both formal and informal settings

Desirable

• Project management qualification, such as APM
• Experience in IM&T projects

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 Information Management and Technology Team:

This exciting role is part of the Information Management and Technology function, reporting directly to the Data Transformation Programme Manager. You will play a pivotal role in delivering key projects within the dynamic data transformation portfolio. As the key driver of project delivery, you’ll lead meetings, balancing time, cost, and quality demands across various stakeholders to ensure efficient and effective project outcomes. You’ll anticipate and mitigate risks proactively, consolidating project status, key milestones, risks, and spend data. This is a fantastic opportunity to bring your strategic thinking and innovative ideas to the table, while working closely with senior stakeholders across BAE, a global leader in defence and aerospace. The role offers a unique chance to influence high-impact projects within a forward-thinking and collaborative team.

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.

Closing Date: 6th February 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.

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