Head of Data & Digital Capability

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Head of Data & Digital Capability

Would you like to lead PM Digital and Capability activities across the Air Sector team and support the delivery of the PM functional strategy? We have a vacancy for a Head of Data & Digital Capability in our site in Warton.

As Head of Data & Digital Capability you will have the opportunity to shape the future of the project management and controls function, and set the data and digital agenda in collaboration with cross-sector colleagues.

Your main responsibilities as a Head of Data & Digital Capability will include\:

· Leading PM Digital and Capability activities across the Air Sector team and supporting the delivery of the PM functional strategy

· Sharing and guiding others with key project management expertise, governance and functional capability across the PM data and digital capability portfolio of projects

· Leading PM functional data and digital capability development for the Air Sector and continuously improving it to ensure it is applied in the most efficient and effective manner

· Ensuring essential procedures are followed and to helping to define the standards around which others will operate across a range of large, complex, high value and strategically important projects/programmes

· Managing a cross-sector team, delivering results and providing coaching and mentoring within the wider business

· Providing functional thought leadership as a member of the PM improvement steering boards at the sector level.

· Anticipating issues across a wide range of data and digital projects/programmes, dealing with emergent issues and escalating problems where required.

Your skills and qualifications\:

· Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills

· Ideally a background in project management with knowledge of a range of PM/ project controls tools and systems, or a broad understanding of data and digital

· Resilient, pro-active, and curious nature – able to drive change over the long term and manage change-fatigue

· Ability to manage a team and lead in matrix environments

· Knowledge of the air sector may be beneficial but not essential

Location\: Warton (minimum 3 days per week on site)

Grade\: GG13

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

This vacancy is open to permanent and fixed-term BAE Systems employees only.
While agency workers have access to relevant permanent opportunities, this role has been designated as an internal opportunity and therefore only permanent and fixed-term employees of BAE Systems are eligible to apply.

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 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.