VAS Senior Project Manager

Job title: VAS Senior Project Manager

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

Salary: £54,793+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Shaping and delivering against our strategic Integrated Business Plan (IBP)
• Ensuring delivery of IT projects to time, cost and quality
• Ensuring seamless integration between projects, including transition into Business-as-Usual support
• Accurate reporting of project status to team members, leadership and external stakeholders
• Managing customer, partner and supplier relationships
• Effective management of RAID
• Developing and tracking project plans, budget and schedule
• Ensuring business, project and quality management processes are effectively applied across projects

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Application Project Management experience
• Demonstrable experience in IT project / programme management
• Understanding of VAS (Virtual Application Service), Application Packaging and Role Based Profiles (RBACs) and how they integrate
• Previous experience of successful deployment of complex IT solutions especially around software development, VAS or Complex Desktops
• Extensive Stakeholder management experience

Desirable:

• Experience of delivering projects utilising various methodologies – E.G. Waterfall (Prince, PMP), Agile, ITIL
• Experience of IT software development projects and/or organisational change projects
• Experience with Atlassian and Confluence

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 Team:

A hybrid team based across Warton and Samlesbury delivering Enterprise Solutions to the AIR Sector. You will working to drive the VAS (Virtual Application Service) into the business and embed as an enduring enterprise service.

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: 28^th November 2024

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.