Portfolio Manager

Job Description

Job title: Portfolio Manager

Location: Glascoed

Salary: Up to £55,869 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide professional Project Management across a number of projects

• Accountable for delivery of the projects included within their portfolio

• Identify and develop follow on business opportunities related to their portfolio of products

• Financially plan and achieve acceptable business financial objectives for orders, sales, gross margin and cash

• Monitor and report project/programme performance for schedule, technical, financial and quality objectives

• Responsible for ensuring that accurate forward load data is derived for projects from the business toolsets

• Establish and maintain strong customer and supplier relationships maintaining regular communications and managing expectations

• Generate business cases with a good level of business acumen

• Oversee the development, establishment and continuous improvement and tailoring of procedures and guidelines for operation of the project/programme, ensuring adherence to the Operational Framework and life cycle management mandates

Your skills and experiences:

• Degree level qualification (engineering discipline preferred) or comparable experience in the engineering/manufacturing sector, with demonstrable Project Management delivery experience, ideally from a comparable industry (Defence)

• Formal training in Project Management (accredited by APM, PMI or PRINCE), with knowledge of scheduling and risk software tools (e.g. MS Project & Predict!), as well as experience of SAP

• Experience in building customer relationships and achieving high levels of customer satisfaction

• Experience in managing risks and opportunities to the benefit of the projects.

• Experience working as a Project Manager or Project Engineer in Manufacturing or Engineering sector

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 Portfolio Manager team:

Would you like to join the Portfolio Manager team, based in Glascoed? Our Portfolio Managers are tasked with the bidding and execution of a range of projects which are critical to the delivery of our business. Typically, these projects involve product development and delivery, insertion of new processes/capabilities or service delivery. The role needs excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with all levels and disciplines. You will have the ability to demonstrate a good understanding of the wider aspects of the business and implications of problems and issues and a flexible attitude towards achieving business objectives.

You will develop and manage projects to achieve on time delivery of product or milestones, within cost and budget to the agreed quality standard. Through the development of effective relationships across functions, sites, internal and external stakeholders, you will play a leading role in the swift and effective resolution of project issues. You will also be responsible for the development of bids and proposals to support current customers follow on orders.

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 August 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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