Project Manager – Product Delivery (Mimesis)

Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager – Product Delivery (Mimesis)

Location: Portsmouth Broad Oak. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £60,000 + depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop, tailor, and manage project management processes to ensure effective product delivery
• Act as the primary liaison with stakeholders across BAE Systems, supporting engagement with broader Simulation and Synthetics initiatives, including Project OdySSEy
• Work closely with the Project Engineering Manager, System Design Authority, and Work Package Managers to ensure seamless project management
• Track and manage all financial aspects of projects, including CSRs, invoicing, monitoring spend against forecasts, and ETCs
• Demonstrate strong commercial acumen and actively contribute to commercial discussions and decisions
• Manage multiple priorities effectively, adapting to tight deadlines while providing clear direction and support to product teams

Your skills and experiences:

• Project Management qualification or equivalent experience
• Project Delivery experience at a similar scale
• Knowledge of LCM (tools, practices and techniques)
• Strong and developed communication and diplomacy skill and ability to persuade internal and external stakeholders

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 Project team:

This is a unique opportunity to help shape a new initiative for BAE Systems, launched earlier this year, with significant potential for growth and development. The Project Manager will collaborate with the Product Delivery Lead to define product governance and delivery processes, ensuring successful product delivery. This role will also support the Product Delivery Lead in engaging with broader BAE Simulation and Synthetics teams, including initiatives such as Project OdySSEy.

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 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: 6th January 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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