Analysis & Design Project Manager

Job Description

Job title: Project Manager – Analysis and Design

Location: Portsmouth – Broad Oak. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £55,000 commensurate on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Accountable for team and project budget, performance, and results
• Manage a small team of project professionals
• Track and drive project financials, including CRSs, invoicing, and monitoring spend versus forecast
• Utilise experience in risk management to address project risks effectively
• Apply strong commercial acumen to project activities
• Ensure adherence to essential procedures based on personal knowledge of Project Management principles
• Multitask effectively and provide clear direction, guidance, and support to project teams
• Take ownership of all project plans and prioritise actions to resolve resource and operational challenges
• Exercise full management authority, including conducting performance reviews and overseeing recruitment
• Manage internal and external stakeholder relationships effectively

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Recognised as a Project Manager practitioner with project delivery experience
• Ability to resolve project related problems that do not have routine solutions
• Commercially and financially astute with experience in financial reporting and managing budgets
• Knowledge of good bid practice and process with an awareness of business development and keen to develop this further
• Possesses strong and refined communication and diplomacy skills, capable of influencing internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrates ability to make difficult decisions when necessary and exhibits decisiveness and drive in accomplishing tasks
• Quick learner, adept at grasping new concepts rapidly

Desirable:

• Professional PM Qualification or equivalent practical experience gained through application of Project Management
• Degree or equivalent

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 Analysis and Design Team:

This role is a key management role in the Analysis and Design team to drive and deliver all the Analysis and Design training contracted and business development. In addition to Type 26, there are numerous smaller contracts to deliver over shorter time periods, often to new and growing customers, focus must be retained on these to deliver to time cost and quality, in support of the Portfolio Lead.

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.

Closing Date: 25th April 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.