IT Program Manager M/F

The Program Manager is responsible for monitoring and developing their scope. Their mission primarily revolves around the following axes: client interface and relationship, offers & business development, operations and quality monitoring, and financial monitoring of programs. This role involves managing integrated teams, ensuring client satisfaction, driving business growth, overseeing project execution, and managing financial aspects across various digital transformation, cybersecurity, cloud, and application projects.

Must Have

• Master's degree (Engineering school or university with specialization in IT)
• Senior project management experience
• Rigor in contractual management, planning, and resource management
• Strong organizational, synthesis, and leadership skills
• Ensuring long-term quality client relationships
• Ability to lead an integrated team
• Crucial role in managing resources from different service centers
• Precision in instructions and excellent communication

Perks & Benefits

• Attractive compensation package
• Continuous skill development: training paths, internal academies and communities
• Inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Location: Toulouse, France

Let's build a future of trust together

Thales is a global leader in high technologies specializing in three business 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 skill development: training paths, internal academies, and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

By joining the Toulouse site, you will integrate a site bringing together our sovereign cyber defense solutions to face growing IT threats and our digital services activities enabling us to operate our clients' critical information systems and support them in their secure digital transformation.

Your profile

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Holder of a BAC+5 (Engineering school or university with a specialization in IT), you have broad knowledge of infrastructure and security technologies.

You have previous senior project management experience and demonstrate rigor in contractual management, planning, and resource management. These skills must enable you to successfully manage the execution of these projects, "on time delivery," and project budgets independently.

You possess a strong capacity for organization, synthesis, and leadership. Furthermore, you are the guarantor of a quality, long-term client relationship. Within the framework of your projects, you will be able to lead an integrated team in conjunction with other project work package managers and in liaison with the client's project teams.

You have a crucial role in managing resources from the different service centers. You must therefore be able to functionally lead project teams and demonstrate great precision in your instructions and excellent communication with the teams and with management.

Your daily life

The Program Manager is responsible for monitoring and developing their scope. Their mission is mainly structured around the following axes:

• Responsible for client interface and relationship:

They manage client relationships and master the various interlocutors. They are responsible for client satisfaction across all different projects. They animate business review meetings with the client and Work Shop animations with the client.

• Responsible for offers & business development within their Program

They drive the development of offers jointly with sales, partners, and the technical & consulting division of the BU. They identify and monitor opportunities (participation in Gate and Thales Digital Services processes). They are responsible for the project design commitment: RAO (Call for Tender Response), Investigate, proposals, costing, milestones, deliverables, commitments…

• Responsible for operations monitoring and quality monitoring

They act as Project Director: participation in COSTRA, risk monitoring, WPM (Work Package Manager) monitoring… They supervise the monitoring of Thales Digital Services commitments and deliverables (On Time Delivery). They manage escalations and implement action plans in crisis situations. They are the guarantor of project quality monitoring…

• Responsible for financial monitoring of Programs

They perform financial monitoring and reporting for each project with the support of the division manager (invoicing, AVV pipeline, revenue, profit, cash flow…). They perform financial consolidation for their entire Program. They implement PCCA roadmaps and forecasts…

The topics covered are vast: Digital transformation and data management (Data Visualization, Analysis, Transport, etc…), Cybersecurity projects, Move To Cloud (on-premises platforms, AWS Cloud, Azure), Applications (ERP, Collaboration, etc…), Service Center…

This position interfaces with a varied audience: CISO, cyber expert, system and network administrator, etc… in an international context.

Pre-sales and consulting experience is expected and should be highlighted by the candidate.

Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!

As the position may require access to information relating to national defense secrecy, the selected person will be subject to a security clearance procedure, in accordance with the provisions of articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 09, 2021.