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FCAS Systems Programme Manager
Would you like act as the primary interface between the UK MoD customer and a range of external partners and suppliers on the FCAS programme? We currently have a vacancy for a FCAS Systems Programme Manager at our site in Warton.
As FCAS Systems Programme Manager you will be embedded within the FCAS Systems of Systems Engineering team to support programme delivery and development. Working with a range of stakeholders including industry partners and academia, you’ll use your deep understanding of the UK MoD customer to successfully deliver customer requirements.
This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in growing and developing new knowledge and capabilities for the future of combat air systems. While the UK market is the primary focus currently, there is also scope for you to lead the growth of international markets in the future.
Your main responsibilities as FCAS Systems Programme Manager will include:
· Lead external engagement and engagement internally at senior reviews
· Responsible for development and agreement of Deliverables for FCAS SoS
· Ensures resolution management and negotiation of FCAS SoS Deliverables
· Responsible for proactive representation of FCAS at wider forums; Bids, Customer Reviews, Internal meetings, and Design/Phase Reviews
· Support the scope, role, and direction for FCAS with Export and International partners (e.g. KSA) as part of the wider FCAS Capability Portfolio
· Scope, coordinate and manage the FCAS Integration of Innovation Operating Model sprints, interfacing externally with 3rd parties, LSSIs and the MoD
· Manage the process of raising POs, forecasting and onboarding new suppliers
· Act as the interface for the MOD and BAES input to external suppliers
· Direct £10smil External spend P.A. across a broad range of suppliers, and assess VfM
· Generate evidence and recommendations for exploitation beyond FCAS SoS
· Generate evidence to proceed with supplier engagements
· Ensure alignment with Customer to proceed with above
· Champion integration across different areas / disciplines within BAE Systems
· Foster and lead intra-sector (FalconWorks) and intra-company engagements (Maritime/Inc./CTIO)
· Lead the System of System future strategies and SoS development, beyond the FCAS only remit
· Identify resource / non labour requirements beyond current contracted periods
Your skills and qualifications:
· Deep knowledge of UK MoD customer and UK Armed Forces environment and challenges
· Broad experience and understanding of BAE Systems policies and processes
· Ideally experience with supporting bids and delivery
· Ideally some experience/ exposure to international programmes and markets
· Ability and willingness to gain DV clearance in future (you don’t need to be currently DV cleared)
Location: Warton
Grade: GG12
Benefits: Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive
BAE Systems Air
If you’d like to make a real difference where it counts, BAE Systems is the place for you.
From keeping soldiers, sailors and pilots safe to helping countries prosper, from developing the next generation of supersonic aircraft to investing in the next generation of super-smart talent – at BAE Systems, we work together to give our customers an essential edge in protecting the things that really matter. Lives, livelihoods, ways of life.
As part of our Air team, you could be working at the edge of what is technologically possible, shaping the future to ensure our customers are ready to face challenges we cannot even imagine today. You could be developing and evolving the technologies that will defend the UK for generations to come and supporting our customers around the globe.
Join us and you’ll be encouraged and rewarded to excel in this important work. Apply your talent where it counts.
We are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.
We want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.
We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.
For more information on our Diversity & Inclusion work, please click here.
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and who have been in their current role for 12 months or longer
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. Click here for more information on national security vetting levels.