HR IT Product Leader

Job Title: HR IT Product Leader

Location: Preston. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £70,000 dependent on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Define and communicate the overarching vision and strategic direction for Portfolio of products and applications, ensuring alignment with organisational objectives
• Lead the development of product strategies and roadmaps, informed by thorough market research and analysis, identifying opportunities, prioritising features, and guiding the product development process
• Foster and maintain relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation, including executive leadership, engineering, architecture, operations teams, and external partners
• Oversee the entire product development lifecycle, from concept to release, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products and applications
• Work closely with engineering teams to define technical requirements, address implementation challenges, and maintain product integrity throughout the process
• Monitor project progress, track key metrics, and implement mitigation strategies to ensure successful outcomes and continuous improvement
• Schedule and facilitate regular product workshops with users and other relevant stakeholder to understand business priorities for application enhancement
• Build and maintain an ever-green product backlog containing all required enhancements, changes, defects, research spikes and technical debt that require implementation by the corresponding DevOps delivery team

Your skills and experiences: 

Essential:

• Proven experience in a senior product management role, with a proven record of successful product development and delivery in an enterprise IT environment
• Success Factors experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders

Desirable:

• Operational management experience of a product portfolio

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 Enterprise IT Products and Application team: 

You will assume a senior leadership role in driving the strategic direction, development, deployment, and operation of software products and applications for HR systems. You will have overarching responsibility for overseeing the entire product lifecycle, from conception to delivery, ensuring that initiatives align with both business objectives and technological capabilities. Your strategic vision and expertise will be crucial in leading cross-functional teams, shaping the product management process, and delivering high-quality solutions that meet and exceed customer expectations.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 3rd July 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. 

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