Standort: Ulm, Germany
We say HI*
Bid & Project Manager (m/f/d) Product Development
full-time or part-time - permanent
At the Ulm location #LI-ONSITE
(Ref. Nr. R0296715)
Thales ist ein weltweit führender Anbieter von Spitzentechnologien für die Bereiche Verteidigung, Luft- und Raumfahrt sowie Cyber Security und Digital Identity.
In Ulm you will encounter communications solutions for space missions and electrical satellite thrusters. This is the right place for you if you want to join us in developing travelling wave tube amplifiers which are in use in on board of most satellites where they take care of signal transmission to earth. Or do you get excited about environmentally friendly electrical propulsion units? Then you will join the Thales expert team for aerospace components facilitating a sustainable life on earth. We are happy to have you on board!
Your mission
Sie sind verantwortlich für die Angebotserstellung sowie für die Leitung und Steuerung komplexer R&D- und CFRD-Projekte mit Fokus auf Qualität, Budget, Zeitplan, Meilensteine und Kundenzufriedenheit. Sie agieren als zentrale Schnittstelle zu Kunden, internen Abteilungen, Partnern und Stakeholdern und sichern durch strategisches Risiko- und Chancenmanagement den Projekterfolg. Zudem führen und motivieren Sie Ihr Team, fördern Wissenstransfer und vertreten bei Bedarf den Head of Bids & Projects.
This also includes the following tasks
1. Central contact person for communication, coordination and stakeholder management in bids and projects
2. Analyzing bid requirements, creating bid structures and plans and carrying out cost estimates
3. Responsibility for project initialization and management, taking into account budget, schedule, quality and risks
4. Conducting contract negotiations within the scope of the mandate and contributing to continuous process improvement
5. Supporting sales in long-term business development such as market analyses, concepts and customer requirements
6. Taking on coordination tasks in the local Bid & Project team and supporting colleagues with challenge
7. Manage, coordinate, support (functional management) the internal Thales stakeholders to provide the deliverables: engineering collaborators, heads of engineering discipline offices, sales, marketing, quality, project buyer, legal, export control
What you bring with you:
8. A successfully completed technical degree and an additional MBA-degree would be desirable
9. Several years of professional experience in public contract, proposal and project management - ideally in the military sector
10. An IPMA or comparable project management certification is desirable
11. Fluent knowledge of German and English
12. Strong technical, business and customer-oriented thinking and the ability to grasp complex system interrelationships
13. A high level of problem-solving competence and results orientation as well as the ability to work in a team in a national and international environment and to manage employees professionally
14. A high degree of reliability, personal responsibility, structural ability and independence
The Group invests more than €4 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum and cloud technologies.
In 2024, the Group generated sales of €20.6 billion.
For our more than 83,000 employees in 68 countries we open up visionary perspectives, realise individual career paths and enable creative freedom. This is achieved with courage, versatility and the firm intention to make the demanding challenges of our time safer and more inclusive. With our sustainable value-focused management we support diversity actively.
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Say HI* – Your journey to us
At times of change our international teams are ready to meet the complexity of today with the industry-leading technologies of tomorrow. Will you be part of it? Your Talent Acquisition contact Melanie Brunnenkan is looking forward to your online application on ourCareer portal.
Melanie Brunnenkan #LI-MB1
Talent Acquisition Partnerin
+49 731 40729 746
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