Product Delivery Lead – Global Digital Academy

Preston, England, United Kingdom

12/19/2024

Job Title: Product Delivery Lead – Global Digital Academy

Location: Any UK BAE Systems site, with ability to travel to Preston regularly. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £50,000 to £52,000 depending on skills and experience

What You’ll Be Doing

• Act as a coach and mentor to the team, promoting a strong understanding and practice of agile principles (Scrum, KanBan, Lean) to foster a culture of continuous improvement
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritise digital skills product delivery and ensure alignment with business objectives, ensure that product goals and requirements are communicated effectively and manage stakeholder expectations and ensure transparency of delivery progress
• Ensuring products are delivered effectively and efficiently by understanding requirements, priorities, and guiding cross-functional teams
• Working collaboratively with the Product Manager to embed best practices and advance the delivery vision through an agile approach
• Facilitating agile events and practices, remove barriers to progress, ensuring timely and successful delivery of digital skills products by cross-functional teams
• Oversee the timely and successful delivery of product milestones and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics measure effectiveness and identify areas for process improvement
• Acting as the agile coach, helping individuals and teams adopt and embrace an agile mind-set fostering a collaborative and supportive environment for teams to thrive
• Developing your own skills and knowledge while shaping the agile mind-set of the team to create a sense of community
  
  

Essential

Your skills and experiences:

• Knowledge of digital skills, technologies, trends and best practices
• A deep knowledge and understanding of various agile tools, techniques and frameworks
• Experience and deep understanding of agile delivering under Scrum, Kanban and other agile frameworks (Lean, SAFe)
• Proficiency with product tooling (e.g. Jira, Confluence)
  
  

Desirable

• Scrum Master Certification preferred (CSM, PSM, A-CSM, CSP-SM, SSM)
  
  

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 Global Digital Academy Team

A chance to join our team at an exciting time of growth and innovation! This role offers progression opportunities and the chance to shape your position within our small but dynamic team. You will bring people together to encourage collaborative working throughout the delivery of digital skills products. Reporting to the Product Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to work as part of a wider network across all of BAE Systems business units to develop your skills and gain exposure.

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 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: 9th January 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.