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BAE Systems

Programme Manager

Salary:  From £70,000 per annum
Location:  Warton, United Kingdom
Location flexibility:  3 office days / week – Hybrid options are dependant on role and can range from fully remote to on-site full time
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Job Description

Job Title: Programme Manager

Location: Warton, 3 days per week on site.

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

Salary: £70,000+ Dependent of experience

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Job Description:

Working as part of the UK and International division within the Digital, Data and Infrastructure Delivery Unit, you’ll take ownership of programme management and overall service support for some of our high-profile contracts.

This is a varied role with a high degree of autonomy, which requires sound judgement, and a structured approach to decision-making. You’ll draw on a broad range of programme and general management skills, from planning and securing resources to supporting our internal function and responding effectively to emerging needs of the business.

Core duties:

  • Responsible to the Head of Portfolio for managing the digital roadmaps, ensuring alignment with programme and campaign requirements
  • Lead and shape Programme Management, Service, and IT technical resource demand to support our critical contracts and future bids
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  • Manage budget expenditure, ensuring financial targets are met and escalating where spend exceeds agreed tolerances
  • Maintain a broad awareness of emerging technologies, holding both internal and external delivery teams to account for meeting time, cost and quality requirements
  • Ensure effective IT and Programme Management assurance activities are in place, including Quality, Risk and Financial Management. Moreover, working closely with crucial functions such as Cyber, Commercial, Legal and more, in order to deliver the required business outcomes

    • Essential Skills:

    • You’ll bring a considerable IT background, including hands-on service-level knowledge and experience
    • You’ll have extensive stakeholder engagement skills, confidently engaging up to VP and Director level
    • You’ll have experience overseeing budgets and keeping financial targets on track
    • You’ll deliver complex programmes of work, ensuring delivery against time, cost and quality requirements, while successfully managing complex stakeholder relationships

    The Programme Management Team

    This team provides critical support across IT and business functions to deliver specific organisational objectives while upholding high professional standards, accountability, openness, equality, diversity, and clarity of purpose. It is responsible for reviewing and ensuring that service management processes align with corporate IT governance strategy, with an understanding of the principles outlined in ISO/IEC 38500:2008.

    Why BAE Systems?

    Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

    A place where everyone can thrive:

    We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

    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: 19th May 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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    Working at BAE Systems

    3 office days / week – Hybrid options are dependant on role and can range from fully remote to on-site full time

    A little flex time – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements depending on the role you apply for – explore your options with our recruiter during the application process.

    Company employees:

    Around 110,000

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    Adoption leave
    Annual bonus
    Buy or sell annual leave
    Collaboration spaces
    Cycle to work scheme
    Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
    Employee discounts
    Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks paid, up to 52 weeks total, with the option of returning to work on reduced hours for the first 13 weeks
    Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks for eligible employees
    Enhanced pension match/contribution
    Family health insurance
    Fertility treatment leave
    Gym membership – Discounts available
    Health insurance
    In house training
    Learning license
    Lunch and learns
    Mental health support
    Mental health first aiders
    Mental health platform access
    Modern office
    Neonatal leave
    Open to compressed hours
    Open to job sharing
    Open to part time work for some roles
    Open to part-time employees
    Pregnancy loss leave
    Private booths
    Referral bonus
    Relocation packages
    Reservist leave – 15 days
    Salary sacrifice
    Secure on-site parking
    Share options
    Shared parental leave
    Mentoring

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