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Performance and Business Manager
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About this role

Job Title: Senior Service Integration and Change Manager

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base

Salary: Up to £82,000 (dependent on skills and experience) + 12.5%25 Bonus and Car Allowance

What you’ll be doing:

  • Drive and manage change initiatives linked to service integration, tools, methodologies and process improvements, ensuring effective adoption across projects, programmes and stakeholders
  • Operates in a strategic capacity, delivering outputs that can impact the wider business and senior stakeholders
  • Will liaise with other business functions to ensure the delivery of progress and performance information for the project
  • Has extensive knowledge and understanding of Projects/ Programmes/ Portfolios and the Business
  • Has extensive experience demonstrated in a professional role within a business or project/ programme/ portfolio
  • Has extensive knowledge of a range of PM&C methodologies and toolsets
  • Will have significant knowledge & experience of influencing internal and external stakeholders
  • Will have a strong ability to capture, evaluate and share good practice

Your skills and experiences:

  • Degree level education or professional qualifications gained through industry
  • Professional PM Qualification or extensive practical experience gained through application of Project Management
  • Proven ability to coach and mentor project controls and service integration professionals, strengthening capability and best‑practice delivery
  • Develop and implement effective solutions to problems, identifying, adopting and tailoring good practice as appropriate
  • Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of both project and the wider business environment

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 Asset Management Leadership team:

In Warship Support/Asset management, we sustain the Royal Navy’s surface fleet from HM Naval Base Portsmouth, from platform maintenance and system upgrades to deployed operational support, we work alongside the Royal Navy to ensure fleet availability and mission readiness. Our work ranges from routine dockyard tasks to complex engineering enhancements, keeping everything from T45 Destroyers to Type 23 Frigates and Aircraft Carriers modern, effective, and ready for operations

This is a highly visible role working closely with an onsite customer every day, offering a real opportunity to see and feel the direct impact of your work and contribute to something of national importance. The role provides exceptional development, building skills in running complex businesses, managing high‑value contracts and leading significant change programmes, with opportunities to influence at scale and work internationally

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 10th February 2026

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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Tech stack
Change Management,Service Integration,Project Management,Stakeholder Management,Coaching,Mentoring,Problem Solving,Business Strategy,Performance Management,Process Improvement,Methodologies,Toolsets,Good Practice,Communication,Evaluation,Collaboration

About BAE Systems

At BAE Systems, we help our customers to stay a step ahead when protecting people and national security, critical infrastructure and vital information. We provide some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions and employ a skilled workforce of 107,000 people in more than 40 countries.

From state of the art cyber threat detection to flight control systems that enable pilots to make better decisions, we never stop innovating to ensure that our customers maintain their advantage. This is a long-term commitment involving significant investments in skills. We also work closely with local partners to support economic development through the transfer of knowledge, skills and technology.

Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Founding Year: 1999

What you'll do

  • Drive and manage change initiatives linked to service integration and process improvements. Liaise with other business functions to ensure the delivery of progress and performance information for the project.

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What does a Performance and Business Manager do at BAE Systems?

As a Performance and Business Manager at BAE Systems, you will: drive and manage change initiatives linked to service integration and process improvements. Liaise with other business functions to ensure the delivery of progress and performance information for the project..

Why join BAE Systems as a Performance and Business Manager?

BAE Systems is a leading Defense and Space Manufacturing company.

Is the Performance and Business Manager position at BAE Systems remote?

The Performance and Business Manager position at BAE Systems is based in Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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