Project Manager - M/F

Thales is seeking a Project Manager for its optronics center in Saint-Étienne, France. The role involves functionally leading a project team of about twenty multidisciplinary members. Key responsibilities include ensuring contract execution (costs, deadlines, quality), maintaining client relationships, coordinating internal stakeholders (production, support services, technical teams), and contributing to the sector's revenue, cash, and EBIT. The manager will also be responsible for project reporting.

Must Have

• Guarantee contract execution (costs, deadlines, quality)
• Ensure good client relations with direct client, partners, and end-user
• Coordinate internal stakeholders (production, support services, technical teams)
• Contribute to the STC Sector's revenue, cash, and EBIT
• Establish, consolidate, and present project reporting
• Minimum 2 years of experience in project management
• Previous experience in a commercial, finance, technical purchasing, or industrial role
• Mastery of project management through planning and costs
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Experience in the field of optronics

Good to Have

• Rigor and curiosity
• Synthetical mind
• Ability to work in a team
• Open to colleagues' proposals
• Ability to evolve in a changing environment
• Dynamism

Perks & Benefits

• Attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development (training, academies, internal communities)
• Inclusive, benevolent, and work-life balance respecting environment
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Let's build a future of trust together

Thales is a global leader in high technologies specializing in three business 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

North of Saint-Etienne, our center of excellence in terrestrial combatant optronics develops and manufactures night vision systems and optical components. A historic center of the Angénieux brand, the site is also specialized in very high-quality optics for the cinema industry.

Within the STC Sector (Terrestrial Cryogenics/Cinema Sector), you will join a team of about ten project managers in the Sector's programs and operations department. You will functionally lead a project team of about twenty multidisciplinary members.

Your mission

• Guarantee the execution of entered contracts/orders (costs, deadlines, quality)
• Ensure a good relationship with the direct Client, any partners, and the end-user
• Coordinate internal stakeholders:
• CCI for equipment production (quantity and deadlines)
• Support services (DFi, DJu&C, DT, DQ, DCom, DAchats, expeditions, etc.) for contract execution, registration, and consolidation
• CCT and sector engineering for any technical specificities
• Directly contribute for your portfolio to the STC Sector's revenue, cash, and EBIT, commensurate with the amounts of your contracts/orders.
• Establish, consolidate, and present project reporting to the sector management and the BL if applicable.

Your profile

A graduate with a Bac+5 (Master's degree equivalent), you have at least 2 years of experience in project management. You have previous experience in a commercial, finance, technical purchasing, or industrial role. You demonstrate rigor and a curious mind. You master project management through planning and costs. You understand and express yourself in English, both written and oral. You have worked in the field of optronics.

You have a synthetic mind and are capable of working in a team.

You are open to proposals from your colleagues.

You are capable of evolving in a changing environment and are recognized for your dynamism and rigor.

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