Project Management Officer (PMO) - Balard (M/F)

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Thales is a global high-tech leader 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, academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

Within the operations department of the Support and Customer Service (SSC) sector, you will join a major strategic public sector program in France as a PMO to provide support to the Program Director and the integrated team on Finance, Structuring, Planning, Risks and Opportunities, Reporting and Indicators, and Document Management activities. In detail:

• Consolidate budgets and costs/analyze variances in conjunction with the Project Manager for the scope,
• Update the Primavera structure according to project start-up, as well as monthly workload/milestone plans via Primavera, in conjunction with the teams
• Maintain the risk and opportunity database,
• Contribute to the Program's internal/external reporting and the monthly update of project indicators,
• Monitor actions related to the scope,
• Provide support to project teams for document management activities (TOL/SPHERE)

What we recognize in you:

• You are proactive and proposal-driven.
• You are organized and able to share your progress, difficulties, and action plans.
• You are rigorous and methodical, and know how to maintain the engineering repository.
• You have a strong team spirit, you like to share your knowledge, exchange, and work for the collective good.
• You are pedagogical, you adapt to your interlocutors to disseminate good engineering practices and a good application of its fundamentals.

With a higher education degree (bac +4/5, or equivalent), you have good experience in project management (PMO experience desired).

Essential skills / knowledge:

• Proven experience as PMO, Project Manager (PM), Work Package Manager (WPM) or in any other project management activity with associated tools.
• Solid skills in project structuring, as well as financial analysis and monitoring.
• Proficiency in Thales' project planning tool, Primavera.
• Ability to effectively use Thales' ERP tool, particularly SAP.

Desired skills / knowledge:

• Ability to coordinate and lead a team.
• Knowledge of information and communication systems, as well as service contracts.
• Good command of MS Project.
• Knowledge of financial management.

The SSC PMO team supports the 50 project managers of the Support and Customer Service Sector of the SIX GBU to help them master their contractual and financial commitments. We deploy the Thales group's instrumented processes on projects; support for the organizational structuring of projects, planning and monitoring of expenses and commitments, management of risks and opportunities, supplier monitoring, preparation of internal and CLIENT reviews, etc.

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.