Business Change & Transformation Lead in Waterlooville

Location: Portsmouth, New Malden, Frimley, Dorchester and Filton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £74,000 dependent on skills and experience.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop the strategy for business change for the Combat Systems line of business and collaborate with other change teams to optimise alignment.
• Lead development of business change transformation plans linked to the business strategy.
• Ensure business change management plans are properly integrated with project/programmes plans.
• Collaborate with key business stakeholders to develop and deliver business benefits.
• Ensure all parties impacted by the changes are kept informed, engaged and have an understanding of the benefits.
• Proactively identify the risks arising from business change management activities and ensure they are properly managed within the project.
• Regular engagement with the leadership team for Combat Systems.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience leading change or transformation at a business level.
• Analytical thinker who works systematically to resolve problems and identify causes, solutions, key issues and underlying trends.
• CMI Change Management Practitioner (accredited by APMG) or equivalent.

Desirable:

• Recognised Coaching Qualification – Accredited by Association for Coaching (AC), European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) or International Coach Federation (ICF).

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 Combat Systems Management Team:

You’ll lead and manage business change programmes of varying size and complexity and support P3 integration to ensure project management processes and activities are defined and unified. You’ll also help to produce the analysis to facilitate the P3 and Business Change leadership in making direction changes. Reporting to a Combat Systems Director, you’ll manage business change delivery and will hold responsibility for the project success and the relevant tracking and reporting elements.

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: 12th February 2026. Interviews W/C 16th 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.