Project Manager - Turkiye Campaign

BAE Systems.; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense technology company is looking for a Project Manager for the Turkiye Campaign based in Samlesbury. You will coordinate and manage project activities, ensuring compliance and delivery of equipment. The role requires experience with medium-sized projects and dealing with overseas customers. This position offers competitive salary and hybrid working options.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Qualifications

• A good level of experience in supporting the delivery of medium sized projects.
• Experience in delivering New Business Bid inputs for New Business related roles.
• Dealing with overseas export customers.

Responsibilities

• Managing and coordinating project activities under a wider programme.
• Supporting the programme manager within all stages of the Life Cycle Management.
• Effectively managing export compliant delivery of all equipment required.

Skills

Experience in supporting medium sized projects

Delivering New Business Bid inputs

Dealing with overseas export customers

Job description

Job Title: Project Manager - Turkiye Campaign

Location: Samlesbury with occasional travel to Warton

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £54,793.00 - £60,326.00

What you'll be doing

• Managing, co‑ordinating and driving project activities under a wider programme of work, including development of IM&T inputs to New Business bids and Campaigns, in order that they meet Customer requirements and can form a basis for developing project plans
• Supporting the programme manager within all stages of the Life Cycle Management (LCM)
• Effectively managing export compliant delivery of all equipment(s) required to be deployed as part of projects both in the UK and International space.
• Establishing individual project delivery plans, actively addressing issues as they arise and efficiently communicating with all stakeholders such as DD&I internal suppliers, Shared Services, Export Control and both Cyber and Technical Security.
• Generating & managing detailed integrated schedules using Microsoft Project, driving/monitoring and reporting performance to the programme manager. Identify & manage Risks and Opportunities to ensure programmes are in line with schedule, cost and quality expectations
• Facilitating and supporting regular Performance Review Meetings with the relevant suppliers and all programme stakeholders and ensuring performance reports accurately represent the current status of assigned projects.
• Specialised in the provision for the business in relation to Project Management - ensuring through stakeholder management, the strategy aligns to the business needs and objectives.

Your skills and experiences

Essential:

• A good level of experience in supporting the delivery of medium sized projects in a couple if not all of the Project Management skill sets.
• Detailed information on skill set requirements in available on the Information Management and Technology Intranet site.
• Experience in delivering / supporting New Business Bid inputs for New Business related roles.
• Dealing with overseas export customers

Desirable:

• Awareness of business unit policies and processes, including export control and security policies
• Some experience of working in an IT Function and familiarity with IT trends and good practice.
• Bid work and new capability development experience

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The DDNI & IMT Team:

The Typhoon for Turkiye Campaign is at a critical stage in its lifecycle where we need to home in on the detailed solution design. This will require dedicated project management, in particular co-ordination of diverse and disparate stakeholders from both within the Company and Customer domains. This is the pre-cursor to firming up the solution design and associated firming up of the costs for the overall support solution. To manage, co‑ordinate and drive project activities under a wider programme of work, including development of IM&T inputs to New Business bids and Campaigns, in order that they meet Customer requirements and can form a basis for developing project plans.

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.

Closing Date

18th November 2025

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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