Planning, Monitoring & Control Manager

Job Title: Planning, Monitoring and Control Manager

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: From £80,000 plus, dependent on skills and experience with an executive car allowance and bonus on top

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the cost management strategy and integration across all major submarine programmes
• Support process improvements in cost forecasting, governance, and assurance
• Ensure integration with adjacent Disciplines and Business Functions, such as risk management and scheduling and estimating, to maintain an integrated project controls system
• Oversee system configuration, whilst creating reports and dashboards to present cost positions to senior stakeholders
• Manage a team of professionals and liaise with programme cost managers

Your skills and experiences:

• You will need to have good cost management expertise with a strong understanding of governance, cost estimating, value management and cost control
• Programme Management knowledge and extensive experience in managing complex projects, including a strong grasp of project management and integrated project controls
• Proven data analysis and visualisation experience
• Experience within People management and Leadership
• Governance and Assurance experience with a comprehensive knowledge of governance and assurance processes within Planning, Monitoring, and Controls

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Project Management and Controls team:

This opportunity will give you a great opportunity to lead on cost management within the project management function whilst ensuring successful delivery of complex submarine programmes. This role involves setting functional strategies, managing processes and tools, and ensuring governance and assurance in cost control. You will have a fantastic chance to engage with senior stakeholders, oversee system configurations, and lead a team in driving process improvements across forecasting, governance, and reporting. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under represented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also 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. Click Closing Date: 8th October 2024

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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