BAE Systems

Business Operations Support

Show

Job Title\: Business Operations Support

Location\: Warton, Hybrid - 3 days per week on site

Salary\: £44,907

Grade\: D

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.

Job Description\:

As a Business Operations Support professional, you will help enable the effective coordination, governance, and delivery of business operations activities across Air Operations. You will support reporting, risk, and information management processes while ensuring consistency, accuracy, and compliance with required standards. Working closely with business and functional teams, this role provides valuable exposure to senior stakeholders and an opportunity to contribute to continuous improvement across key operational processes.

Core duties\:

  • Maintain the Air Operations action tracker in SharePoint, ensuring timely updates, resolution of actions, and audit readiness
  • Coordinate leadership meetings, reporting schedules, and communications, including issuing notices and tracking submissions
  • Prepare and collate reporting materials, ensuring accuracy, consistency, correct templates, and appropriate security classifications
  • Provide administrative support across shared inboxes, stakeholder lists, SharePoint sites, and OAS processes, coordinating with relevant teams
  • Support Information Management activities, including maintaining scorecards, plans, risk registers, and ensuring compliance with policies

Essential Skills\:

  • Experience using Microsoft Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) to coordinate, interpret, and present information clearly
  • Ability to gather inputs, support reporting, and maintain accurate data in order to share with the team and wider business
  • Capable of governing information, documents, and compliance requirements whilst maintaining confidentiality and discretion
  • Comfortable with SharePoint and or equivalent systems (e.g. Tableau/Confluence), and be able to adapt to new systems
  • Ability to coordinate tasks, identifying gaps, and ensuring activities are completed effectively

The Business Operations Team\:

The Air Operations Business Operations team supports Leadership across Typhoon, US Programmes, Service Delivery Units, and enabling functions. Working in a dynamic environment, the team delivers key reporting to Air Operations and the Air Sector Board, offering visibility across the organisation and opportunities to build experience working with senior stakeholders.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive\:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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 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\: 14th July 2026