Programme Manager

Location: Warton, 3 days per week on site. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £70,000+ Dependent on experience.

Who we are: Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future for all of us.

Job Description: Working as part of the UK and International division within the Digital, Data and Infrastructure Delivery Unit, you’ll take ownership of programme management and overall service support for our high-profile contracts in Qatar and Oman. This is a varied role with a high degree of autonomy, which requires sound judgement and a structured approach to decision-making. You’ll draw on a broad range of general management skills, from planning and securing resources to supporting our Cyber function and responding effectively to emerging needs of the business.

Core duties:

• Responsible to the International Lines of Business Director for managing both IT functional and non-functional roadmaps, ensuring alignment with programme and campaign requirements.
• Define and oversee the overall IT approach, ensuring strategy aligns with contract business needs while considering wider IT roadmaps (EIT, Group, Sectors).
• Lead and shape Programme Management, Service, and IT technical resource demand to support the Qatar and Oman contracts and future bids.
• Manage budget expenditure, ensuring financial targets are met and escalating where spend exceeds agreed tolerances.
• Maintain a broad awareness of emerging technologies, holding delivery teams accountable for meeting current and future contract requirements.
• Ensure effective IT and Programme Management assurance activities are in place, including LCM, CSR, OAS, Risk Management, and GCSS.

Essential Skills:

• You’ll bring a considerable IT background, including hands-on service-level knowledge and experience.
• You’ll manage senior stakeholders confidently, engaging up to VP level.
• You’ll have experience overseeing budgets and keeping financial targets on track.
• You’ll deliver complex programmes of work, ensuring successful outcomes across multiple projects.

The Programme Management Team operates as an internal consultancy supporting the full breadth of the Air sector’s products and services. We are at the forefront of delivering Human Factors integration across some of the most complex and technologically advanced defence programmes in the world. We are seeking experienced Senior Human Factors Practitioners to join our team in Warton, working on high-profile programmes including Eurofighter Typhoon, Tempest and the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP). In this role, you will act as an internal consultant and Subject Matter Expert, partnering with multidisciplinary teams to embed Human Factors principles across the product lifecycle. You will influence design decisions, provide specialist guidance, and ensure optimal human-system integration across cutting-edge air platforms.

Joining our team means contributing to aircraft and systems that will remain in service for over 40 years, continuously evolving to maintain and enhance our customers’ air defence capabilities. This role offers exposure to complex, world-leading programmes, collaboration with senior stakeholders, and opportunities for travel across the UK and internationally.

If you are enthusiastic, forward-thinking and motivated by solving complex human-system challenges, we would love to hear from you.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle.

In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive: We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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: 16th April 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.