Project Management – Project Planning & Control (Change Management Office) Practitioner

Job Description

Job title: Project Management – Project Planning & Control (Change Management Office) Practitioner

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: Up to £45 000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Able to perform intermediate project reporting and scheduling
• Monitor the progress of business change management activities and provide insightful recommendations
• Provide regular and meaningful reports to stakeholders on the delivery of business change
• Identify, assess and manage risks arising from business change management activities
• Ensure business change management activities are incorporated into project LCM activities
• Support the sector transformation reviews and reporting
• Identify, assesses and manages risks, actions, issues & decisions to the success of the project including through life management
• Provide advice on business change management activities to stakeholders and senior executives when required
• Query resolution of basic and routine problems
• Administration and general office skills including spreadsheets/ Microsoft packages

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Good knowledge and understanding of Project Control policies, processes, procedures and systems
• Good understanding of one or more Project Control tools techniques and practices
• Experience of working with stakeholders typically inside the company
• Knowledge acquired through job related training and on the job experience, generally non-theoretical skills
• Ability to gather information and disseminate as required

Desirable:

• A basic awareness of change management tools and techniques
• Awareness of business improvement philosophies & toolsets
• Awareness of LCM, Assurance and governance frameworks
• PM Qualification such as the APM Project Management Qualification

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 Change Management team:

As a Project Planning & Control (CMO) Practitioner, you will be helping to support, coordinate & deliver transformation projects across the Maritime & Land businesses and liaise with other change leads across the sector. You will ensure the Change management activities across the sector are supported, defined, unified & coordinated to achieve the required outcomes. This is a new team within the M&L sector to support the transformation portfolio over the coming years.

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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 16th September 2024 – Interviews for this position will take place W/C 23rd September.

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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