Job Title: Cost & Benefits Lead
Location: Warton – Hybrid working, 3 days on site
Salary: £54,793+ Dependent upon skills and experience
What You’ll Be Doing
Identifying, defining, and document clearing, measurable benefits aligned with organisational goals
- Developing and maintaining a benefits realisation plan with timelines, KPIs, and tracking metrics
- Using tools (dashboards, scorecards, benefit registers) to monitor and report progress
- Collaborating with stakeholders to quantify financial, operational, and strategic outcomes
- Supporting project control in tracking benefit delivery across the project lifecycle
- Identifying and managing risks/issues impacting benefit delivery, implementing mitigation as needed
- Ensuring alignment and ownership of benefits with project managers, business owners, and sponsors
- Working with finance and business units to ensure benefits are realised and sustained
- Providing regular updates to senior management on progress, risks, and corrective actions
Your Skills And Experiences
- Experience with performance measurement and reporting
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Accountable as a member of the Project Management team for supporting development and implementation of appropriately tailored Project Management practices
- Familiarity with financial forecasting and risk analysis
- Understanding financial modelling, Cost-Benefit analysis, and ROI within project environments
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 Spartan Transformation Office Team
You will be joining an experienced Project team delivering critical project management activities within a key enterprise-wide technology and process transformation project. You will work with multiple stakeholders and you will help drive and implement new ways of working across a large complex business. You will support the development and delivery of the Project Management Office within the team with involvement in wider project processes and deliverables.
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: 22nd August 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.
