Hybrid Portfolio Manager - Engineering and Defence Programs

Outsource Uk; Barrow-in-Furness; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 98,000; Part time

Job summary

BAE Systems is seeking a Portfolio Manager for a 12-month contract in Barrow-in-Furness. Hybrid working with 1-2 days on-site per month, paying £52.93 PAYE or £71.45 Umbrella per hour inside IR35.

The role acts as the operational backbone between technical delivery teams and programme leadership, overseeing budgets, schedules, scope, changes and governance to support rapid, disciplined delivery in a scale-up environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing engineering portfolios or programmes.
• Attention to detail is paramount.
• Defence background is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Act as the operational backbone between technical delivery teams and programme leadership, ensuring accurate and timely project control.
• Maintain transparent management of budget, schedule, scope and change, enabling robust R&D governance and reporting.
• Establish and enforce programme processes, standards and documentation that bring structure, discipline and repeatability to a fast-moving scale-up environment.
• Drive risk, opportunity, assumption and dependency management across the portfolio, ensuring proactive mitigation and escalation.

Skills

Extensive experience managing eng.port

Attention to detail

Defence background

Job description

BAE Systems is seeking a Portfolio Manager for a 12-month contract in Barrow-in-Furness. Hybrid working with 1-2 days on-site per month, paying £52.93 PAYE or £71.45 Umbrella per hour inside IR35.

The role acts as the operational backbone between technical delivery teams and programme leadership, overseeing budgets, schedules, scope, changes and governance to support rapid, disciplined delivery in a scale-up environment.