Armaments Systems Project Manager (M/F)

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Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three sectors: Defense & Security, Aerospace & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition
• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development: training courses, academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

Join us on the Vélizy campus, which hosts a wide variety of Thales activities: aero, defense, civil, etc. West of Paris, this site offers a work environment equipped with the latest technological innovations and provides services to reconcile professional and personal life.

Within the VTS France domain, Thales develops and produces innovative complex systems around Thales effectors, rockets, and ammunition.

As Project Manager, you will lead a cross-functional team in accordance with Thales values, within the framework of two development and production projects. Furthermore, as part of the development of one of the "advanced systems" sector activities, a portion of your activity will be dedicated to building offers for the VTS France domain's offers department, offers that will then become projects that the position holder will manage.

As such, you are responsible for the execution, monitoring, and control of the projects under your responsibility until their closure, in particular you:

• Set up and update the project's technical and non-technical requirements repository (Project Structure, Description of work packages, contractual data for clients, partners and suppliers, costs, budgets and financial structure, planning integrating workload and resource allocation)
• Are responsible for meeting contractual commitments to the client, both technical, financial and calendar, and guarantee their satisfaction
• Manage the contract in close liaison with the legal department and the client
• Manage risks and opportunities as a team
• Conduct project progress meetings with the technical product manager, work package managers and all departments contributing to client satisfaction
• Ensure project reporting to the client, schedules and deliverables, as well as associated contractual management
• Conduct project reviews and report project progress to the entity's top management based on criticality.

To do this, you work in close collaboration with the Technical and Industrial Competence Centers through the project work packages of your WBS, and in collaboration with the Product Line Manager of the products concerned who ensures their consistency and with the support of support services.

Your profile

Holder of an engineering degree or a Bac+5 level qualification, you have experience/skills in:

• Project and offer management
• Experience (4-5 years) in managing projects of medium complexity and/or complex offers
• Knowledge of the defense world and the organization of the Ministry of Armed Forces to efficiently hold this position from the outset (military experience would be valuable)
• A first project/offer experience with NATO defense clients would be appreciated (e.g., DGA or program agency like OCCAR/NSPA)
• Fluent English

Your leadership, rigor, and adaptability are qualities that are recognized in you.

Job location: - Helios Thales Velizy Campus or La Ferté Saint Aubin - If Vélizy location, systematic weekly trips to La Ferté Saint Aubin - Numerous meetings in the Paris region and in the provinces