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Senior Project Manager
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Job Title: Senior Project Manager

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

Salary: Circa £59,000 dependent on experience

 

What you’ll be doing:

  • Responsibility for defining, planning and tracking the projects in your portfolio
  • Working closely with stakeholders from different areas of the business, including - regulatory bodies, the external submarines community and suppliers. You will be required to ensure that there is a sound basis for the management and overall delivery success
  • Responsibility for assuring portfolio success for the projects within and ensure that they are adhering to schedule, cost and quality. Also ensuring success against the set targets and measures
  • Managing meaningful and supportive relationships across the portfolio team, outsourced project teams and with internal and external stakeholders as required throughout the delivery cycle

Your skills and experiences:

  • Professional qualification in project management such as APM/Prince2 or other recognised qualifications will be considered
  • Strong experience within project management, project delivery and portfolio management
  • Proven experience of delivering projects to time, cost and quality with an outsourced partner along with working within a strict governance process
  • Ability to co-ordinate colleagues, volunteers and contracted parties through expert leadership, motivation, teamwork, supervision and accountability
  • Experience of working with and manage external IT partners and suppliers and capability to manage partners, 3rd parties, projects and stakeholders
  • A proactive, can-do attitude with attention to detail

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 IT Digital Workplace Infrastructure Services team

By joining the team, you will collaboratively provide project and/or portfolio management expertise to the IT Digital Workplace & Infrastructure Services team – ensuring delivery of key projects comprising product, process and system development. This is a great chance to contribute to the enhancement of the department's project management framework and to ensure current and future projects are delivered in line with good practice project management techniques.

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: 6th 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
Project Management,Portfolio Management,Stakeholder Engagement,Governance Process,Leadership,Teamwork,Motivation,Supervision,Accountability,IT Partner Management,Attention to Detail,Outsourced Project Delivery,Cost Management,Quality Assurance,Regulatory Compliance,Communication

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

  • The Senior Project Manager will define, plan, and track projects within their portfolio while ensuring successful delivery against schedule, cost, and quality. They will work closely with various stakeholders to maintain strong relationships and assure project success.

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What does a Senior Project Manager do at BAE Systems?

As a Senior Project Manager at BAE Systems, you will: the Senior Project Manager will define, plan, and track projects within their portfolio while ensuring successful delivery against schedule, cost, and quality. They will work closely with various stakeholders to maintain strong relationships and assure project success..

Why join BAE Systems as a Senior Project Manager?

BAE Systems is a leading Defense and Space Manufacturing company.

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