Leadership Development Coach

Job Title: Leadership Development Coach

Location: Scotstoun & Govan

Salary: Up to £53,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing: 

• Leading and exemplifying the deployment of each phase of the Sustainable Operational Excellence (SOE) model, adhering to established coaching standards
• Coaching leaders at all levels, driving transformative changes in mindset and behaviour
• Fostering a psychologically safe environment that encourages candid communication and constructive feedback
• Challenging existing beliefs and behaviours, promoting the adoption of new, more effective operational habits and goals
• Advocating and modelling a culture of personal accountability and adult learning behaviours
• Collaborating cross-functionally to ensure effective system deployment across multiple organisational areas
• Continuously adapting and refining the SOE model in response to organisational feedback, ensuring relevance and impact

Your skills and experiences:

• Previous working experience coaching, mentoring or teaching stakeholders to align coaching outcomes with business goals
• Experience of leading high level conversations with confidence and influencing at various levels
• Experience developing and running training or upskilling sessions to embed best practice
• A coaching, mentoring or training qualification/background

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 Operational Excellence Coaching Team:

The Operational Excellence Coaching Team is a critical role within our business. The team are responsible for developing and coaching all levels of leadership on a 1:1 basis, supporting leaders to manage and sustain change that will make us fit for the future.

Reporting to the Operational Excellence Delivery Lead, you will join a team of 9 Coaches driving rapid change across the organisation by challenging mediocrity and supporting leaders to deliver a multi-million-pound orderbook. Coaching up to 4 leaders at a time, you’ll guide them through the Sustainable Operational Excellence (SOE) steps, confront poor behaviours, and help build new habits—breaking down silos and barriers to achieve excellence and make the organisation Fit for the Future.

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: 18th November 2025 – Interviews w/c 1st December 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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