Program Manager IT F/H

The Program Manager IT F/H is responsible for overseeing and developing their scope within Thales, a global high-tech leader. Key responsibilities include managing client relationships, driving business development and offers, supervising project operations and quality, and ensuring financial monitoring and reporting for various projects. The role requires a strong background in IT infrastructure and security, senior project management experience, and leadership skills to manage integrated teams and resources across different service centers.

Must Have

• BAC+5 in IT or Engineering
• Broad knowledge of IT infrastructure and security
• Senior project management experience
• Rigorous contractual, planning, and resource management
• Strong organizational, synthesis, and leadership skills
• Ability to lead integrated project teams
• Manage resources across service centers
• Precise instructions and excellent communication
• Experience in presales and consulting
• Client relationship and satisfaction management
• Offer development and business growth
• Operations and quality monitoring
• Financial tracking and reporting for programs

Perks & Benefits

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

Build a future of trust together

Thales is a global leader in high technologies specializing in three sectors: Defense & Security, Aeronautics & 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, internal academies and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

At the heart of Saint Quentin en Yvelines, the Elancourt site is one of Thales' most important technological centers of excellence. The diversity and technicality of the systems and equipment mobilize expertise in more than 80 professions in defense, high-tech security, and digital services solutions.

Your profile

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

You have past senior project management experiences, and demonstrate rigor in terms of 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 have a strong capacity for organization, synthesis, and leadership. Furthermore, you guarantee a quality, long-term client relationship. Within the framework of your projects, you will be able to lead an integrated team in liaison with other project work package managers and with the client's project teams.

You have a crucial role in managing resources from 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 (Program Manager responsibilities)

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

• Responsible for client interface and relationship:

They manage client relationships and master 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 Services Numériques processes). They are responsible for the commitment to project design: RAO (Call for Tenders 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 Services Numériques commitments and deliverables (On Time Delivery). They manage escalations and implement action plans in crisis situations. They guarantee 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, PC, 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.

Experience in presales and consulting 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!