Risk Opportunity Lead in Preston

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

Salary: £56,766 + dependent on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the development, maintenance and assurance of integrated risk and opportunity management plans across the programme lifecycle.
• Facilitate risk and opportunity workshops, reviews and deep dives with delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Support business assurance reviews, gate reviews, audits and independent assessments.
• Provide clear insight on risk exposure, trend analysis and emerging issues.
• Support programme leadership with evidence-based decision making.
• Act as a subject matter expert for risk and opportunity management within the programme.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Significant experience in risk and opportunity management within a complex delivery environment (defence, aerospace, engineering or regulated industry preferred).
• Strong understanding of programme and project management principles.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge constructively.
• Experience of management reporting, dashboards and governance forums.
• Excellent facilitation, communication and analytical skills.
• Professional qualification such as APM.

Desirable:

• Experience in using Predict.

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 Türkiye Project Office team: You will play a critical role in supporting the Türkiye Contract Organisation in the delivery of a world-class military aircraft program responsible for establishing, leading and assuring the effective identification, assessment, management and exploitation of risks and opportunities across the Türkiye Programme. The role supports informed decision making, protects programme outcomes, and drives value by embedding a pro-active risk and opportunity management culture aligned with BAE Systems policies, lifecycle frameworks and external standards. To do so it will be imperative you work collaboratively with key stakeholders (internally & externally), day to day the role will report directly into the TPO Project Control Manager.

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: 24th 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.