Delivery Manager Delivery Manager

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London || UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Leeds 

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: Delivery Manager

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

Grade: GG12

Referral Bonus: 5000

What You'll Be Doing

We are looking for a Mid-Senior Level Delivery Manager to join our team following continuous growth and success in the UK Government sector. 

• Developing and managing teams, including managing their delivery and performance and providing appraisal and support to their development
• Preparing and maintaining schedules for project activities and events, taking account of dependencies and resource requirements, showing the critical path, reporting and tracking milestones, resource levelling, baselining and tracking reporting, contingency and risk adequately covered in the plan
• Identifying, addressing and resolving differences between individuals and/or interest groups
• Maintaining definitions of the requirements of projects
• Developing and agreeing budgets for projects and controlling forecast and actual costs against them including production of financial reports
• Managing both internal and external stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests

What background are we looking for?

• Taken full responsibility for the definition, documentation and successful completion of higher complexity projects, programmes or portfolios
• Acted as a primary point of contact for senior clients and sub-contracted 3rd parties, and has day to day accountability for the service and solution being provided.
• Provided support, mentoring and assurance to projects at lower levels of complexity/size.
• Identified business winning opportunities for new or extended work, within or related to the scope of the project, programme or portfolio.
• Coached and provided guidance to one or more Project Professionals or Senior Project Professionals throughout the project lifecycle, managing their performance and supporting their development.
• Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential having interacted with various levels of stakeholder, internal and external in your previous role
• You will need to be a motivated individual who is willing to help out the wider business unit wherever possible
• Able to juggle different tasks and projects well alongside one another and manage priorities accordingly.

The team

We work hard and often go the extra mile, but we recognise people's efforts and that everyone has a life outside of work. We encourage people to speak up if they want to rotate to a new project.

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offer employee share plan, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including including a green care scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

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 which 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 under-represented 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 such as your nationality, any nationalities which you previously may have held and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are able 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.