Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : Gloucester
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
Junior PMO
Job Title: Junior PMO
Requisition ID: 121800
Location: Gloucester - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Grade: GG08
Referral Bonus: £2,000
National Security Gloucester Overview
The National Security business Gloucester is growing and there are an increasing number of opportunities to work with a range of National Security clients to provide solutions that have a real impact.
Be part of a growing team that not only delivers for its clients but also gives back to the community with plenty of opportunities to get involved with local community engagement and outreach activities to help build tech and cyber skills in the region.
Junior PMO
We are looking for an Entry-Level PMO to join our team following continuous growth and success in the UK Government sector.
What you could be doing for us:
- Developing and managing teams, including managing their delivery and performance and providing appraisal and support to their development
- Planning and scheduling – Creating and maintaining basic project plans, ensuring that systems are in place to enable effective planning and scheduling.
- Financial control – Creates and maintains project financial data, contributing to the management of project budget throughout the project lifecycle.
- Preparing and maintaining schedules for project activities and events, taking account of dependencies and resource requirements, showing the critical path, reporting and tracking milestones, resource levelling, baselining and tracking reporting, contingency and risk adequately covered in the plan
- Maintaining definitions of the requirements of projects
- Developing and agreeing budgets for projects and controlling forecast and actual costs against them including production of financial reports
- Managing both internal and external stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests
What background are we looking for?
- Excellent stakeholder management experience is essential having interacted with various levels of stakeholder, internal and external in your previous role
- You will need to be a motivated individual who is willing to help out the wider business unit wherever possible
- Be an engaging person, with all the different projects teams in the Gloucester office, this is essential as you will be the focal point for organising and running different teams
- Have led small projects in a previous roles or education or be able to articulate/evidence signs of leadership
- Able to juggle different tasks and projects well alongside one another
- Someone from a PMO background or Junior Project Manager or even University Graduate would be suitable for this role.
How we will support you:
- Work-life balance is important; you’ll get 25 days holiday a year and, via our flexible benefits package the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before
- You can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working
- Our flexible benefits package includes; private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more
- You’ll have a dedicated People Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE
- Don’t know a particular technology or skill? Your learning and development is key to your future career and we are here to support that
- You’ll be part of our bonus scheme
- Feel free to join in with some of our monthly social events ranging from: ‘First Friday’, Lunch & Learns (free pizza/snacks), Tech Talks and much more.
You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.
If this sounds like you, it’s time to apply…
Security Clearance
Only those with the permanent and unrestricted right to live and work in the UK will be considered for a position within BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. Due to the nature of our, work successful candidates for this role will be required to go through Government SC clearance prior to starting with us. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/security-vetting-and-clearance
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.
PLEASE NOTE: You're expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development. We know there may be individual circumstances that impact this, so please discuss this with your line manager or HR Business Partner (HRBP). If you don't feel you can talk to your line manager, you can contact your HRBP.
Should you be invited for interview, you will be giving consent for the Recruitment team to contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.
This vacancy is eligible for the UK Employee Referral Scheme. Amount: £5000
Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence
We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.
By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.
Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.
