Portfolio Director Data & Digital

Job Title: Portfolio Director Data & Digital

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

Salary: £132,600 + depending on experience with executive benefits

What you’ll be doing:

• You will have autonomy to design and deliver the business strategy for this Defence Portfolio area – to deliver key digital and data solutions to our customer and growth for our business
• You will lead all programme delivery activities, with key focus around the large and complex programmes, ensuring those key programmes are used as the foundation of strategic growth in the UK and supporting leveraging into international markets
• You will lead all existing Account Management projects with specific focus on strategic growth Account Management domains
• You will take a business wide view to identify emerging Key Accounts and working with the Business Development team to grow and/or strengthen account relations
• Leading and ensuring the business acts upon customer opportunities, thinking, knowledge, concerns etc
• You will achieve Order Intake, Sales, Margin and cash targets
• Ensuring margin expansion is delivered using all available levers – Risk management, flawless execution, licence sales and scope management
• You will lead all existing direct customer senior level engagements to Champions/Sponsors local Customer Review activity/projects improving the level of customer satisfaction
• And you will lead the overall Integrated Business Plan inputs to generate orders, sales, margin, cash targets and management of Sales & Marketing and Product Development investments in support of both new and existing Accounts

Your skills and experiences:

• Degree level (or equivalent) qualification
• Experience managing complex portfolios and programmes, translating requirements into solutions and delivering on time and within budget
• Significant knowledge within the within the data and Digital space (e.g. secure software services, data analytics, application development, and synthetics)
• Disruptive thinker –able to drive innovative digital and data solutions to our customers complex problems
• People management experience (ideally of Account Management professionals)
• Experience operating in a customer environment
• Experience in account management, sales, business development or other business winning environments

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 & Digital Portfolio team:

As Portfolio Director Data & Digital you will drive and deliver long term strategy while ensuring delivery to multiple customers and into adjacent BAE Systems sectors. You’ll lead the programme delivery, IBP salient and growth of the portfolio; and lead account management to support business winning.

This is an excellent opportunity to set the strategic direction and prioritisation of an organisation of over 500 employees, oversea a number of key investments and bring together best practice from the high-technology sector and the Defence environment to establish the ways of working for the implementation of multi-domain Data & Digital projects in this new and exciting Business Unit.

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: 21st January 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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