Air ERP Delivery Manager 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: £63,900

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide guidance to the Air ERP Delivery Team to deliver existing services & develop new services within the functional domain of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in line with budget provision.
• Support the technical delivery, change and enhancement of the Air ERP platform, and oversee the ERP Infrastructure team who are responsible for maintaining all of the non-production infrastructure environments utilised for development, and support to the Business Recovery activities.
• Support impact assessments to the baseline solution.
• Be part of the first line supervising team for the ERP Technical Delivery and Support organisation supporting both the Design and Build.
• Be responsible for the design and build of the IT solution components of the Air ERP Platform. All solution change will be delivered through this role which will significantly contribute to improving and enhancing the platform to meet the needs of the Air business.

Your skills and experiences:

• Validated experience delivering and supporting large-scale ERP platforms, including full lifecycle responsibility from design and build through deployment, transition into service, and ongoing support.
• Demonstrable experience supporting multi-faceted ERP deployments, upgrades, and enhancements within multi-faceted IT programmes, supporting critical business operations across multiple locations and a large user base (thousands of users).
• Considerable technical delivery background, with direct experience overseeing robust solution design and build activities within an enterprise ERP environment.
• Experience operating across core General Management disciplines, such as delivery management, stakeholder engagement, financial/budgetary control, risk management, and team mentorship.

• Experience establishing and managing programme and project controls, including scheduling, risk and opportunity management, dependency tracking, and solution maturity assessments.
• Experience driving delivery performance using structured delivery methodologies, including Agile and hybrid approaches, supported by industry-standard tooling such as JIRA and other configuration or delivery management platforms.

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 Air ERP Delivery Team:

The Air ERP Delivery team is responsible for the design, build and testing of IT solution components across the Air ERP Platform, delivering all ERP solution change and driving the ongoing evolution of a critical enterprise system supporting the Air business. It’s an exciting time to join the team, with involvement across Spartan programmes, major projects and transformation capabilities, offering the opportunity to shape a multi-faceted ERP landscape, work at scale, and visualise your delivery making a direct, visible impact on how the Air organisation operates.

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: 19th 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.