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MBDA

Product Lead – Weapon Systems Operations Equipment Team

Salary:  £65,000 per annum
Location:  Stevenage | Bristol | United Kingdom
Location flexibility:  3 office days / week – 2-3 days at home (some exceptions)
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Job Description

Join our dynamic team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Weapon Systems products at MBDA. As a key member, you will spearhead innovative proposals for architectural solutions across a diverse product range.

Salary: Circa £65,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: Where possible a blended approach to on-site and remote working, depending on business needs. Typically, this could be 2 days per week on-site and 3 days remote working. This role could be full time or part time, 4 or 5 days per week. We are flexible and accommodating. We can also consider term-time and/or compressed hours working patterns.

Location: Stevenage (We may be able to offer a relocation package for this role)

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

  • Company bonus: Up to 21% (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
  • Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
  • Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
  • Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
  • Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more
  • Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more
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Working at MBDA

1 office day / week 2 office days / week 3 office days / week – 2-3 days at home (some exceptions) 4 office days / week

A little flex time – high flexibility for most roles

Company benefits

25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Adoption leave – up to 26 weeks
Annual bonus – all employee bonuses paid in Feb/March
Annual pay rises – performance (+ inflation) increases each year
Bike parking – secure parking at all sites
Buddy scheme – buddies when onboarding
Buy or sell annual leave – buy up to 5 extra days
Carer’s leave
Cinema discounts
Coffee discounts – discounted on site cafes and canteens
Collaboration spaces
Company shutdown periods – Christmas closures and bank holidays
Compassionate leave
Cycle to work scheme
Dental coverage – salary sacrifice options
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice – MyCarScheme - including electric vehicles
Electric vehicle charging unit loan – electric charging points at all UK sites
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts
Enhanced maternity leave – up to 26 weeks
Enhanced paternity leave – available after 26 weeks service
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Enhanced sick pay – increases with length of service
Faith rooms
Family health insurance – salary sacrifice options
Fertility treatment leave
Gym membership – Discounted gym on site in Stevenage, or discounts for local gyms across UK
Health insurance – salary sacrifice options
In house training – In house L&D team
L&D budget
Language lessons
Learning platform – access to multiple learning resources
Meditation space
Menopause support
Mental health first aiders
Mentoring – available to all employees. Includes women in leadership options
Modern office
Neonatal leave – up to 12 weeks
On-site barista
On-site catering
On-site gym
On-site shower
On-site wellness room – reflection rooms available to employees
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Optional unpaid leave
Personal development budgets – up to £150 towards non-work training courses
Pregnancy loss leave
Pregnancy support
Private booths
Professional subscriptions – full membership funding available
Referral bonus – up to £3,000 for a successful referral
Reservist leave – up to 3 weeks off for training (2 weeks on full pay)
Restaurant discounts – discount/cashback employee platform
Salary sacrifice
Secure on-site parking
Share options
Shared parental leave – up to 26 weeks
Teambuilding days
Technology Loan – salary sacrifice options available
Time off in-lieu
Travel loan – season ticket loans for public transport
Volunteer days – up to 2 days a year for team-based volunteering
Wellbeing allowance
Will writing

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The opportunity:

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to join our highly skilled and dynamic team where you can be at the forefront of influencing MBDA’s future Weapon Systems products?

The purpose of the Weapon Systems Operations Product Lead is to own the definition and delivery of product strategies. The role must influence future project roadmaps, policies and technical standards, ensuring compliance with wider Generic Missile/Systems Architecture (GMA/GSA) strategies. Influence project and portfolio decisions, ensuring our products remain cost effective, deliverable and meet the capability requirements of our future customers (domestic and export).

Working to an agreed product line strategy, you will lead and shape new proposals for architectural solutions to the point of acceptance by Project and Delivery Team across a diverse product range.

Key skills include:

  • Influence programmes and future projects to adopt the product line approach to development
  • Collaborate with stakeholders both in the UK and Internationally
  • Connect multiple programmes and business functions to deliver to a common goal and identify future opportunities
  • Challenge established processes and “this is how we’ve always done it” mentality
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with academia, SME’s and potential suppliers

This is a delivery focused multifunctional team tasked with design, development and qualification of technically complex, safety critical products for missile proving and series production. We have an unequalled reputation for use of modularity and re-use principals to reduce cost and schedule and risk.

What we're looking for from you:

  • Experience in the design and development of electronics, preferably in the defence industry with knowledge of the product sector. With the ability to understand the technology and its potential uses. This role requires someone that can think beyond the ‘here and now’ and understand how our products can evolve in the future to meet the company and customer’s needs.
  • Strategic thinker with strong influencing skills across peer groups and into senior management, both within the UK and International partners.
  • Demonstrated experience of defining product strategies and road maps as well as shaping new proposals for architectural solutions to acceptance.
  • Ability to write clear and concise engineering documentation and present to all levels of the business.

Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given

MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.

We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity and more…

We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X (@MBDA_UK), Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information.

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