Head Of Business Operations

Location: Preston or Frimley (other locations can be considered), we offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £85,000 plus executive benefits

An excellent opportunity to work in a team delivering a broad and diverse portfolio; this is a brand-new role within our business area, allowing you to define the role to fulfil objectives and truly make it your own.

The delivery area is Specialist and Infrastructure Support (SIS) – part of Shared Services, UK and International.  SIS is a group of specialist teams who deliver Infrastructure projects, Facilities Management, Indirect Procurement, Data Insights, Early Careers and Skills, Corporate Air Travel, SHE and Security.

As a growing team with a significant ability to drive value and user experience within the organisation, we have need for a strategic thinker to join to help drive us forward.

What you’ll be doing:

• Integral part of the leadership team, working very closely the director, finance business partner and business leads to develop and deliver our strategy.
• Reviewing and integrating total SIS business performance including performance metrics, value opportunities and basics such as training
• Ensuring all business objectives are managed effectively and that reporting is maintained
• Leading the creation and integration of key business reviews for the delivery areas
• Supporting the SIS Director in review meetings and deputise when appropriate. Driving business performance, providing business analysis and insights into driving value within the organisation
• Providing project management, as required, transformational projects at an SIS level but also provide oversight of all transformational or improvement projects across the business
• Leading all business governance and assurance working with the respective functional leads including Business Continuity and Risk Management
• Leading the Resource and operations planning, working with business leads and functional leads, ensuring alignment between workload/operations, financial and capability requirements

Your skills and experiences:

• Strong leadership, collaboration and Project Management skills with the ability to understand, build relationships, trust, credibility to inform and influence are essential to this role
• Sound Business Acumen (product, organisation, customer, commercial and competitor environment)
• Strategic thinking – vision and planning with the ability to develop and implement long-term strategies to achieve business objectives.
• Significant experience with providing effective business messaging
• Programme Management capability

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Business Support Team:

As the Head of Business Operations, you will lead all the Business Operations activities across the SIS (Specialist & Infrastructure Support) delivery lines.  There will be a focus on driving business performance and integrating projects and delivery lines.  The role will also lead the business reporting and analysis for SIS.  

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 8^th July 2024

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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