Job Title: IM&T Project Manager
Salary: circa £50,000 depending on skills and experience
Location: Scotstoun – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
What you’ll be doing:
- Manage aspects of the Project lifecycle enabling the Project to meet the needs of customers/users and achieve financial or other targets.
- Provide advice and guidance for effective use of measures and measurement and plans and implements improvements to measurement capability. Contribute to IM&T policies, standards, and guidelines for measurement. Review data collection and storage mechanisms (including automation) to support measurement.
- Determine the readiness levels of business users regarding upcoming changes, uncover readiness gaps and create and implements action plans to close the gaps prior to going live.
- Support users through transition and change, liaising with project teams, and monitor and report on business readiness, training, engagement, and productivity outcomes.
- Identify stakeholder communication needs and translate engagement strategies into actionable plans and deliverables, serving as a single point of contact to facilitate open communication.
- Provide informed feedback to stakeholders to assess and support understanding and capture and share technical and business information.
- Manage issues and resolutions, capture lessons learned and use stakeholder feedback to assess engagement effectiveness.
- Utilise methods, tools, and techniques, selecting appropriately from plan-driven/predictive approaches or more adaptive (iterative and agile) approaches.
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Strong knowledge or project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, PRINCE2).
- HNC / Computer Science Degre) and vocational qualification or equivalent experience (e.g Prince 2 Foundations / APM)
- Experience of commercial awareness, financial acumen for budget management and cost control
- Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Awareness of importance of business unit policies and processes.
- Experience of working in an IT Function.
- Trained at least to ITIL foundation
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 IM&T Project Management Team:
The Project Manager role supports the delivery of projects that help the business meet its operational and strategic goals. Working closely with stakeholders, the role helps coordinate project activities and ensures that project plans and outcomes align with business needs.
The position holder is responsible for managing and delivering small to medium‑sized projects or contributing to larger programmes by delivering assigned work packages. These projects may involve technology, applications, or business change, particularly in areas related to transition and transformation activities
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 March 2026- interviews w/c 23rd March 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.
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