Business Operations and Governance Lead

Job Description

Job title: Business Operations

Location: Qatar-Doha

Salary: 120,000 QAR + depending on experience plus Nature Of Work Allowance

What you’ll be doing:

• Own the planning, facilitation, and delivery of Qatar reviews and reporting, including end-to-end accountability for information review pack
• Co-ordinate the Business Continuity Management plans on behalf of Qatar Programme
• Lead Life Cycle Management implementation, embedding awareness across all reviews and driving appropriate action management
• Lead Information Retention and Management activities, with full accountability for RDRM infrastructure
• Qatar Policy & Procedural Management and Coordination of the Business Management System

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Demonstrated comprehensive Project Management experience within a business or Projects, Programmes, or Portfolios, including the application of PM methodologies, toolsets, and data management practices
• Comprehensive understanding of the project’s business environment and multiple business areas, including Line of Business structures, processes, and culture, enabling the effective application of appropriate Project Management approaches
• Good understanding of the process to review and agree the programme performance and contract reviews
• Good understanding of Business Continuity Management

Desirable

• Previous experience of internal audits and governance management

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 Business Operations Team

The Business Operations & Governance Lead supports the effective operation, governance, and reporting of the Qatar Programme. Working closely with delivery and functional teams, the role helps ensure reporting requirements are clearly understood and that review and governance structures are appropriate, consistent, and effective.

The role supports the Business Operations & Integration Manager with programme-level reporting and contributes to maintaining the Business Management System, ensuring governance policies and procedures remain current. It includes regular engagement with senior stakeholders, offering exposure to senior-level discussions and supporting the development of a wider professional network.

This is a newly created role within an established Operational Excellence team. It offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative team environment, with involvement across governance, assurance, data, and information management activities. The role also provides scope to contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and to help shape how the position develops over time.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 13th February 2026

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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