Vice President, Human Resources – Aerospace & Mission Systems BAE Systems Inc. is seeking a Vice President, Human Resources for the Aerospace & Mission Systems (AMS) segment. Reporting directly to the AMS President and indirectly to the Inc. SVP & Chief Human Resources Officer, this executive will be a key member of the segment leadership team and will shape the people, organization and culture agenda for the $11B AMS business that employs 22,000 employees across the United States and United Kingdom. Its broad portfolio of mission-critical technologies spans electronic warfare, navigation, electro-optical sensors, military and commercial avionics, precision guidance, communications, space electronics, and ground and tactical systems. This is a business leadership role with HR expertise at its core. The successful candidate will work alongside the Segment President and leadership team to translate business strategy into the organizational capabilities, leadership, talent, culture, and workforce required to deliver today and position AMS for the future. Additionally, this individual will serve on the enterprise Human Resources leadership team setting strategy and delivering objectives across the entirety of the business. The VP, Human Resources will bring an enterprise perspective, strong organizational judgment, and the courage to challenge conventional thinking. They will anticipate what the business will need and build a people strategy that enables growth, innovation, operational performance, and long-term competitive advantage. What You’ll Lead 1. Shape the business through people and organization • Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the AMS President, the CHRO and the AMS leadership team, bringing a people, organizational, and enterprise perspective to business decisions. • Translate AMS strategy and growth priorities into a forward-looking human capital strategy that strengthens the business’s ability to execute. Contribute to the overall Inc. human capital strategy and execution. • Serve as a sounding board and coach to the AMS Segment President and leadership team, providing candid feedback, helping leaders navigate complexity, and increasing their individual and collective effectiveness. • Help shape organizational choices to create a more agile, connected, and high-performing organization. • Bring external perspective, workforce insights, and data to leadership discussions, challenging assumptions and identifying emerging opportunities and risks to enable proactive decision-making. 2. Build the workforce of the future • Develop a long-range workforce strategy aligned with AMS’s technology roadmap, customer commitments, growth agenda, and evolving business portfolio. • Anticipate critical capability needs across engineering, manufacturing, program management, and other strategically important talent segments. • Partner with business leaders to attract, develop, deploy, and retain critical and differentiated talent. • Champion innovative approaches to talent—including internal mobility, skills-based workforce planning, alternative talent models, strategic partnerships, and technology-enabled workforce solutions. • Ensure AMS has the leadership depth and succession pipeline required to sustain performance and growth. 3. Create an environment where exceptional people can do exceptional work • Shape an employee experience that connects people to the mission, strengthens engagement, and enables employees to perform at their best. • Build a culture characterized by collaboration, curiosity, agility, accountability and continuous improvement. • Strengthen leadership capability throughout the organization to enable leading through complexity, developing talent, making enterprise-minded decisions, and driving performance. • Serve as a visible leader across AMS, building trust with employees and leaders at every level of the organization. 4. Lead HR as an integrated business capability • Lead and develop a high-performing AMS HR organization capable of operating strategically while delivering with excellence. • Partner across BAE Systems Inc. Centers of Expertise to leverage scale, expertise, and capabilities while ensuring solutions reflect the needs of AMS. • Champion thoughtful experimentation and modernization of HR practices, challenging legacy processes that no longer serve the business or its people. • Maintain strong governance, compliance, and risk management across a complex and highly regulated business. What Success Looks Like The VP, Human Resources will have helped AMS: • Build the critical capabilities and talent pipelines required to support its strategy and growth. • Strengthen succession and leadership depth across the organization. • Create an organization that can make decisions and execute with greater agility and accountability. • Attract and retain differentiated talent in highly competitive markets. • Increase mobility and development of talent across organizational boundaries. • Strengthen employee engagement and connection to the mission. • Anticipate workforce risks before they constrain business performance. • Build an HR organization recognized by leaders as a source of insight and competitive advantage. Why This Role Matters At BAE Systems, We Protect Those Who Protect Us®. Sustaining that requires more than great technology—it requires an organization capable of continually adapting, innovating, and performing. The VP, Human Resources will have the opportunity to shape that organization. This leader will help determine how AMS builds its future workforce, develops its next generation of leaders, evolves its culture, organizes for growth, and creates an environment where approximately 22,000 people can do the most meaningful and impactful work of their careers. For a senior HR executive who wants to operate at the intersection of business strategy, technology, talent, and organizational scale, this is an opportunity to have significant and lasting impact.