Portfolio Manager – Warhead
// Role Summary
Lead high-impact warhead projects, driving bids, delivery, and innovation as a Portfolio Manager at BAE Systems. Connect teams and leadership, bringing sharp business insight to achieve significant outcomes.
// Key Responsibilities
- Accountable for project/portfolio delivery and team results.
- Collaborate with Business Development and Engineering to identify and develop new business opportunities.
- Ensure financial planning and achievement of business objectives (orders, sales, margin, cash).
- Derive accurate forward load data for projects using business toolsets.
- Experience in managing complex projects/portfolios with strong Project Management knowledge.
- Support development and qualification of new warhead products within the AWMS team.
// Role Specification
As the Portfolio Manager, you’ll lead the charge on high-impact projects, driving bids, delivery, and innovation across product development and new capabilities. You’ll be the connector between teams and leadership, bringing sharp business insight, strong communication, and a flexible, solutions-focused mindset to make big outcomes happen.
Core Duties:
- You will be accountable for the delivery of projects/portfolios and results of the team, whilst managing a multi-functional team.
- This role will require you to work with Business Development and Engineering; you will help identify and develop new business opportunities as well as follow-on business opportunities.
- Ensure you financially plan and achieve business financial objectives for orders, sales, gross margin, and cash.
- You will be responsible for ensuring that accurate forward load data is derived for projects from the business toolsets.
Essential Skills:
- Experience in building customer relationships and achieving high levels of customer satisfaction.
- Experience in managing risks and opportunities to the benefit of the programme.
- Experience working as a Project/Portfolio/Programme Manager on complex projects/portfolios with extensive knowledge of Project Management (tools, techniques, practices) ideally from a comparable industry (Defence/Manufacturing/Engineering sector).
- Able to resolve project/portfolio/programme related problems that do not have routine solutions.
The Warheads Team:
Within the AWMS (Advance Weapons and Munitions Support) team, support development and qualification of new warhead products. Engage customers and lead bidding and delivery of production contracts to international defence customers, including MOD and industry, ensuring successful programme execution and stakeholder alignment.
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