Business relationship Manager

Company: Airbus Defence and Space
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Location: Portsmouth
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you bridge IT solutions and business needs within Airbus Defence and Space. You collaborate with shop floor teams, translate production requirements into IT deliverables, and identify improvement opportunities that align with strategy while ensuring security and compliance. You will drive change across digital contributors and help optimise processes in a production-focused environment. This is an opportunity to shape how IT enables engineering and operations, with cross-site and cross-functional impact.

Pay / Benefits

  • competitive salary
  • annual profit share
  • contributory pension
  • hybrid working
  • flexible hours
  • car leasing scheme

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the digital department consultant and collaborate with shop floor
  • Develop understanding of Production processes, identify KPI drivers and the roadmap for enabling technologies
  • Identify IT improvements in business processes and propose viable solutions
  • Pinpoint inefficiencies and gaps, proposing solutions that are feasible, traceable, scalable, interoperable and compliant
  • Translate business needs into IT requirements and champion change across Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Governance, Applications

Key requirements

  • Willingness and curiosity to learn new technologies and solutions
  • Pragmatic, solutions-driven mindset
  • Experience prioritising tasks based on information, not noise
  • Experience coordinating internal digital stakeholders (architecture, security, infrastructure, data transport, etc.) for optimized delivery and stakeholder management
  • Experience translating complex technical concepts into actionable business value
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills; comfortable with ambiguity and change
  • Strong communication
  • Negotiation skills
  • Adaptability
  • IT requirements translation / business-IT alignment
  • Stakeholder management across IT, operations and engineering
  • Change management and governance coordination

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Posted: October 10th, 2026