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 annually 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 programs, internal academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

Located 20 minutes from the Paris-Saclay technology hub, the site is one of the largest centers of excellence for surface radars. We contribute to developing, designing, integrating, and testing air surveillance radars dedicated to target detection and identification.

The position is based in Limours (site 40 min from Paris, 20 min from Massy and accessible via our network of free shuttles from Massy, Pont de Sèvres, Vélizy, Versailles, Saint Quentin en Yvelines).

Your daily life

Our Surface Radar Domain (SRA) designs, develops, and supplies a range of surface radar products that is the most comprehensive on the market. It meets the needs for sky and sensitive area surveillance, in both civil and military domains (coastal surveillance, battlefield, and counter-battery...).

You will join the MFR sector, which manages the development and production of Thales's new generation of S-band multifunction radars for land and naval applications.

Within the project management department of the MFR sector, you will take responsibility for a project to instantiate one of our radars within a complex system for an export end-client.

As part of your mission, you will:

• Be responsible for delivering contract expectations while respecting costs and deadlines and ensuring client satisfaction,
• Lead and coordinate internal teams (Technical, Industrial, Logistics Managers, etc.) and external teams (client, partners, suppliers, and subcontractors),
• Be responsible for client relations in close synergy with sales, and as such, you will participate in the drafting of amendments within the framework of the program,
• Participate, in close collaboration with Purchasing and the Industrial Competence Center, in the implementation of the offset strategy in the country.
• Contribute to achieving the sector's financial objectives.

Your profile

Is your priority to contribute to the rapidly growing service activities in the Surface Radar and Systems domains?

With a generalist/technical engineering background, do you have more than 10 years of experience during which you have managed complex projects in an export client context?

Do you have experience in managing complex projects in the development phase and in the defense sector, if possible in France?

Do you possess a real spirit of analysis and synthesis and a proven taste for teamwork?

Do you demonstrate autonomy, creativity, negotiation skills, a client-oriented approach, and are you driven by a results culture?

English proficiency is essential.

Then this position is for you!

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 an authorization procedure, in accordance with the provisions of articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 9, 2021.