PMO Lead

Job Description

Job Title: PMO Lead

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

Salary: Circa £42,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintain the D&A Forward Load Resource (future resourcing requirements) and Tasking Data and undertake analysis so as to advise under or over utilisation of resources
• Gathers data, analyse, and prepare reports or presentations to feed information back to teams/managers including D&A Performance against KPI
• Support teams within the D&A organisation to prepare estimates, proposals, and schedules
• Maintain budget tracking in support of Head of Department and senior managers across the organisation and advise of trends and deviations from plan
• Supports problem resolution, resolves issues and acts on feedback and usage of in-life Projects. Creates Project collateral and monitors results and feedback from Project campaigns
• Undertakes responsibility for the provision of support services to projects. Uses and recommends project control solutions for planning, scheduling, and tracking projects Sets up and provides detailed guidance on project management software, procedures, processes, tools, and techniques
• Provides basic guidance on individual project proposals. May be involved in aspects of supporting a programme by providing a cross programme view on risk, change, quality, and finance or configuration management
• Provides guidance on project management software, procedures, processes, tools, and techniques

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience of working in a PMO environment
• Great communication & organisation skills
• Ability to manage a busy workload

Desirable:

• Good knowledge and understanding of PMO policies, processes, procedures and systems (Jira)
• Knowledge of PM governance and assurance processes such as Integrated Baseline Reviews (IBR)
• Prince2, APMP or ITIL 4 Certification

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 Data Analytics Project Management Team

As part of this role you will be advising and assisting the Data Analytics Management Team. This is an exciting opportunity to be a key part of a new fast-growing department where you will be interacting with a wide range of stakeholders on exciting new projects that have a real bearing on the company.

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: 3rd March 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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