Project Manager

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Frimley 

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: Project Manager

Requisition ID: 122378

Location:  Frimley

Grade: GG12

Referral Bonus: £5,000

About us
At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we believe that digital technology is the key to unlocking our customers’ advantage. By advancing digital technologies, we open doors to worlds of opportunities, together.

Within our Defence Business Unit we deliver and integrate digital technology across every defence domain for our customers around the world. We deliver capabilities built from combinations of our own products, COTS equipment and bespoke designs from our suppliers. We have over 1000 employees covering many Disciplines – Software, Systems, Electronics and Manufacturing

We have a requirement for Project and Programme Managers to lead, manage and support the delivery of:

• Software development programmes – either directly into our customers, or as part of our own product development activities;
• Hardware development, integration and production programmes;
• Digital transformation programmes;
• Mission Partner-type services.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, manage, and inspire project teams to deliver successful outcomes.
• Establish governance structures, define roles and responsibilities, and maintain stakeholder engagement.
• Define project requirements, scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with organisational goals.
• Create and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and dependencies to ensure efficient delivery.
• Develop budgets, manage costs, and allocate non-financial resources effectively.
• Secure necessary resources, negotiate and monitor supplier contracts, and manage compliance.
• Proactively manage risks, opportunities, and issues, implementing effective mitigation strategies.
• Apply and maintain quality management processes for project deliverables and outputs.
• Establish change control procedures to manage scope variations and maintain configuration integrity.
• Prepare and refine business cases, ensuring projects deliver expected benefits and value.

Experience – Essential:

• You’ll have a minimum of 5-10 years’ experience delivering projects or programmes covering one or more of software, hardware or digital transformation.
• APM Competency Framework Project Manager (Master) and Project Manager (Advanced) levels, to scope and deliver our most largest and most complex commitments
• You’ll be used to working in a process-driven organisation and ideally proficient in Agile methodologies.
• You’ll be experienced with being accountable for the budget, performance and results of the project, and responsible for ensuring that the necessary procedures are followed and governance applied. 
• You’ll be experienced in managing complex stakeholders, and able to adapt plans to address emerging operational challenges.

Experience – Desirable
While by no means a pre-requisite, we’d be especially interested in receiving applications from individuals with previous experience delivering into Defence customers, and/or into NATO, Middle Eastern and Asia-Pacific geographies.

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.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.