Product Manager (GCAP)

Job title: Product Manager (GCAP)

Location: Warton- Onsite- National and International

Salary: £54,793+ Dependent of skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Developing FCAS computing system deployment strategies and designs for products, while leading key activities as part of an international team responsible for delivering computing hardware and software solutions that directly support GCAP
• Acting as the product development interface, collaborating across national and international FCAS organisations. Building and forging relationships with internal teams, external customers, industry partners, and suppliers in the UK and internationally, including Japan and Italy
• Representing BAE Systems in customer, partner, and supplier meetings, identifying opportunities for collaborative working across engineering, scheduling, and cost challenges
• Balancing business and customer requirements, addressing issues with agility, and positively influencing product strategy, schedule adherence, and optimisation of engineering and business outcomes

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Ideally educated to degree level in a STEM discipline (or HND/HNC equivalent) or able to demonstrate equivalent professional experience
• Proven knowledge of Systems Engineering and the Engineering Lifecycle, with experience applying this in integrated platform environments which may include safety and/or cyber security activities
• Proven experience working with stakeholders beyond the immediate team, ideally across both national and international contexts, with strong interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to build and maintain trusting relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• Practical experience contributing to complex computing solutions such as systems management, avionics/IMA-based solutions, systems integration, safety, cyber security, or comparable large-scale technical programmes

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of Object-Oriented Design and Model-Based Engineering tools and techniques would be advantageous
• Awareness of engineering and business processes, with an understanding of the impact of decisions on time, cost, and quality, and the ability to support timely and accurate performance reporting

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 BAE Systems FCAS Computing Team

Within the BAE Systems FCAS Computing team, we provide leadership and SQEP capabilities into the multi-national Global Combat Air Programme endeavour that is expected to be a key contributor to UK defence for 30+ years. We utilise a wide range of specialist engineering knowledge in our work, which includes the opportunities in architecting/concepting, MBSE, cryptography, CEH, cyber and secure networking. This team provides you with the opportunity to develop and enhance your skills and knowledge, with the potential to lead into more senior technical and managerial positions within a global business. As a key member of the team, you will work closely with the Edgewing teams, contributing to secure and resilient system designs while collaborating across multiple disciplines.

The position is based at our Warton site, with regular travel to other BAE Systems locations across the UK and to customer and industry partner sites in the UK, Italy, and Japan. This provides a unique opportunity to work on high-profile, internationally significant projects, gaining exposure to cutting‑edge technology.

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: 17th November 2025

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.

When applying for this role you will be redirected to BAE systems careers site where you will be required to:

• Register an account (this is optional, you can apply as a guest)
• Provide contact information
• Upload your cv
• Complete a short diversity & inclusion questionnaire