Business Delivery Lead

• Job Title: Business Delivery Lead
• Location: Portsmouth Broad Oak – hybrid pattern - 3 days weekly onsite
• Referral Scheme: £1000
• Grade: GG12
• 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 exceptionalindividual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.
• If you don’t feel you can talk to your Line Manager, you can contact your HRBP.
• PLEASE NOTE 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.

Role description

As Business Delivery Lead, you will coordinate integrated business planning across the Simulation & Training business, ensuring strategy is translated into delivery plans, workforce demand is effectively managed, and teams are supported through robust project governance and processes. Working closely with business functions and leaders, you will drive reporting and review cycles, oversee business change initiatives, coordinate facilities and technology planning, and provide leadership that supports a high-performing, collaborative culture.

Core duties

• Coordinating and maintaining business strategy, ensuring alignment across product, technology and people roadmaps
• Leading integrated business planning activities, balancing workforce demand with resource supply
• Driving recruitment, workforce planning, facilities and office requirements to support business growth
• Acting as a key interface between business operations, functions and line-of-business leadership teams
• Leading monthly business reporting, performance reviews and delivery of continuous improvement initiatives
• Managing budgets, discretionary spend, benefits tracking, risk management and business performance analysis while promoting consistent project management processes, tools and governance across the business

Essential skills

• Strong knowledge of project management disciplines, governance and lifecycle management
• Strong commercial, financial and business planning acumen with analytical capability
• Provenleadership, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across all organisational levels
• Ability to build trusted relationships and align diverse stakeholder requirements
• Skilled at solving complex business challenges, driving improvement and informed decision-making through data analysis
• Degree qualified, professionally accredited, or equivalent project management experience

The Simulation & Training team

Join us in shaping the future of our Simulation & Training Sector. Building on our heritage of cutting‑edge, world‑leading training and simulation solutions of Royal Navy Ships and Submarines. We are rapidly evolving our portfolio to enhance our capabilities, while pioneering brand new simulation systems and deploying cutting edge digital twin and AI technologies, designed to counter emerging and future threats across the battlespace. Through close collaboration with our customers and sustained investment in exceptional talent, we are committed to remaining at the forefront of defence innovation and defining the next generation of Simulation and Training solutions.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best.

You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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 applicantsmust as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicantsmust 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: 24th November 2026

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