DDC Capability & Skills Manager

This vacancy is not currently eligible for the UK Employee Referral Scheme.

Description

This vacancy is open to permanent and fixed-term BAE Systems employees only. While agency workers have access to relevant permanent opportunities, this role has been designated as an internal opportunity and therefore only permanent and fixed-term employees of BAE Systems are eligible to apply.

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 exceptional individual 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 acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

DDC Capability & Skills Manager

Are you passionate about building the skills and capabilities needed for the future?

We are looking for a DDC Capability & Skills Manager to shape how capability is developed across Digital, Data and Cyber. Partnering with leaders, HR, internal academies and key stakeholders, you will translate strategic workforce plans into practical solutions that build critical skills and prepare our people for future business needs.

This role combines strategic thinking with practical delivery, helping to ensure career frameworks, learning solutions and development opportunities are aligned to organisational priorities and future capability needs.

This is a highly collaborative role, offering the opportunity to build a broad network across DDC and the wider business while influencing strategic capability priorities and contributing to enterprise-wide initiatives.

Your main responsibilities as DDC Capability & Skills Manager will be to:

· Establish and lead the Career Framework Steering Group to govern and evolve frameworks.

· Collate and analyse Strategic Workforce Plans, identifying key themes to inform resourcing and L&D priorities.

· Partner with the Head of People Capability to develop the strategic L&D plan, including indicative costs and timelines.

· Curate and commission learning solutions that supports career progression and capability development.

· Collaborate with internal Academies, functional owners and external providers to source high quality, aligned learning solutions.

· Engage with DDC discipline leads and external bodies to support and promote professional accreditation and registration.

· Monitor external frameworks and market trends to inform alignment with industry standards e.g. Government DDaT framework.

· Partner with Digital, Data and Cyber leads to identify skills gaps and future capability needs.

· Work with HR to develop and maintain the DDC job architecture

· Design and deliver capability metrics and insights to support workforce planning and inform decision making.

· Partner with the Communications Lead to promote career pathways and learning opportunities across DDC.

· Design and deliver toolkits, guidance and engagement activities to increase awareness and drive adoption of career frameworks and learning interventions.

· Work with Product Owners and programme Leads to align learning and workforce plans.

· Represent Digital, Data & Cyber in enterprise strategic activities e.g. HR Evolve and Strategic L&D to ensure functional needs are understood and addressed.

· Collaborate with other CTIO functions to identify shared skills and learning needs, promoting cross functional alignment where appropriate.

· Monitor the effectiveness of capability and learning initiatives, using data and feedback to drive continuous improvement

Your skills and qualifications:

· Experience in Learning & Development, talent development or workforce strategy within IT or digital environments.

· Proven track record of designing career frameworks or learning pathways.

· Significant demonstrable strength in influencing stakeholders, displaying confident behaviours to influence amongst conflicting priorities, bringing stakeholders on board with plans.

· Understanding of Digital, Data and Cyber roles and skills.

· Experience working cross functionally in complex organisations.

· Knowledge and membership of SFIA framework preferred but not essential.

What we're looking for in you:

· Proven capability development expertise, aligning skills, frameworks and learning solutions to evolving needs.

· Strategic thinking with an understanding of workforce planning principles.

· Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing capability.

· Expertise in career frameworks and learning design.

· Excellent communication and engagement skills to support adoption and awareness.

· Analytical capability, with the ability to interpret learning and capability data.

· Knowledge of Digital, Data and Cyber capability frameworks and models ideal but not essential.

Location: Flexible, UK + domestic travel to Frimley or other sites circa once per month.

Grade: GG12

Head Office

If you’d like to make a real difference where it counts, BAE Systems is the place for you.

From keeping soldiers, sailors and pilots safe to helping countries prosper, from developing the next generation of supersonic aircraft to investing in the next generation of super-smart talent – at BAE Systems, we work together to give our customers an essential edge in protecting the things that really matter. Lives, livelihoods, ways of life.

As part of the Head Office team, you’ll be at the heart of this endeavour – working closely with our air, maritime, land and cyber and intelligence businesses to support our customers around the world.

We are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

There are endless opportunities to grow at BAE Systems, and we will build upon the diversity of your experience through supporting your movement across our organisation. Our mission is to support our colleagues reach their full potential and so you’ll always find something new that will continue to inspire and provide an exciting and varied career that continues to play a crucial role in creating a secure tomorrow for generations to come.

We believe when you bring together different people and different perspectives it inspires creativity and drives innovation. It helps us fulfil our purpose and it's integral to our culture. We want everyone to be heard and respected, allowing us all to develop in an inclusive workplace and thrive together. 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.

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 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.

Job: Digital Data and Cyber

Primary Location: Warton

Organisation: Corporate Head Office and Shared Services (GSF)

Closing Date: 04/Nov/26, 11:59:00 PM