[Hiring] Benefits Analyst Senior Principal @BAE Systems

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Process Excellence Lead to join our Total Rewards COE team. This role is critical in modernizing Total Rewards processes, reducing manual work, and driving the adoption of automated solutions.

The Process Excellence Lead establishes the strategic framework for process excellence across Total Rewards, ensuring alignment with BAE’s HR operating models and enterprise digital transformation goals. The role will drive process quality, enhancing documentation standards, enabling future-state workflow design, and strengthening communication and training materials. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys improving processes and can support cross-functional projects with clarity and organization. You’ll play a critical role in shaping how Total Rewards operates, ensuring that processes are clear, efficient, and future-focused. This role offers the chance to improve employee experience, build high-quality operational tools, and contribute to strategic modernization efforts across the organization.

• Process Excellence
  • Drive the creation, enhancement, and stewardship of documentation, standard work, and process maps that enable consistency, scalability, and continuous improvement across Total Rewards operations.
  • Establish and maintain organized, intuitive repositories of documentation and tools, ensuring team-wide accessibility, transparency, and operational readiness.
• Process Optimization
  • Conduct operational reviews to identify inefficiencies; design and implement scalable architectures that reduce operational risk and increase organizational agility.
  • Act as a strategic advisor to Total Rewards leadership, influencing the adoption of AI and automation strategies and leading cross-functional work groups to drive organizational change.
• Training Material Development
  • Design and produce clear, intuitive playbooks, job aids, guides, and training content that translate complex Total Rewards concepts into accessible, user-friendly learning resources.
  • Ensure all training materials remain current, accurate, and easy to navigate through disciplined content management and continuous refinement.
• Communications Support
  • Oversee and manage Total Rewards inquiry channels, ensuring timely, accurate, and strategically aligned responses that uphold a high standard of service excellence.
  • Partner with the Engagement Manager to craft, refine, and coordinate high-quality communications that ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment across stakeholders.
• Project Management Support
  • Contribute to the successful execution of cross-functional initiatives by supporting comprehensive project planning, coordination, documentation, and meeting facilitation that ensures clarity and alignment across stakeholders.
  • Maintain disciplined project governance by proactively tracking timelines, deliverables, action items, and follow-ups to sustain momentum and enable timely, informed decision-making.

Qualifications

• Typically a Bachelor's Degree and 8 years work experience or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years experience in Total Rewards, HR Operations, or related HR discipline.
• Proven track record of leading end-to-end process enhancements in an HR environment.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and project management skills, with the ability to influence and drive change across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in automation and AI-enabled work design.
• Certification in Lean, Six Sigma, Agile or related process improvement methodologies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Operations Management or related field.

Company Description

BAE Systems, Inc. is a defense, aerospace, and security company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, with more than 40,000 employees worldwide. We serve, supply, and protect those who protect us. As one of the most geographically diverse international defense companies, we deliver a full range of products and services spanning air, land, maritime, space, and cyber, including advanced electronics, intelligence solutions, and dedicated customer support.

Our culture is performance-driven and values-led, built on curiosity, creativity, and collaboration. Purpose isn't a tagline here. It's what drives us. We're developing breakthrough technologies that defend national security and make a lasting impact on our communities and our planet. When you join BAE Systems, you're not just building a career. You're contributing to a mission that truly matters.