Programme Manager - Land

Helsing; München, Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive salary

Relocation support: up to €2,500

Learning stipend: €500 yearly

Health & wellness support

Social events and allowances

Enhanced parental leave

Remote work option during pregnancy

Zusammenfassung

Helsing seeks an experienced Programme Manager for its Land domain to drive a defined workstream within a complex defence programme. You will maintain robust tracking, coordinate between engineering, commercial and operational teams, and manage customer and partner relationships to keep delivery on schedule.

You will also support business development by identifying opportunities and contributing to bids and proposals, while applying structured project management practices in a fast-moving

Qualifikationen

• Run a defined workstream within a defence/aerospace/engineering context
• Maintain and present programme status to stakeholders
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery and ensure milestones are met

Aufgaben

• Run a defined workstream within a Land domain programme, coordinating engineering and commercial deliverables and maintaining priorities and commitments
• Own relationships with customers and partners, ensuring outputs, decisions and actions are documented and followed through
• Maintain a programme tracking dashboard and risk register, presenting status clearly to stakeholders and surfacing challenges early
• Support commercial outreach by identifying opportunities within the programme and contributing to bids and proposals as directed
• Coordinate across engineering, commercial and operational functions to drive seamless cross-functional delivery within the workstream

Kenntnisse

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

English-German fluency

Ausbildung

PMP certification

Tools

Program tracking tools

Dashboards

Risk registers

Proposal tools

Jobbeschreibung

Who we are

Helsing is adefenceAI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.

As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.

We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AIspecialistsand customer-facingprogrammemanagers.We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems.We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology indefence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.

The role

AsProgrammeManager for Helsing's Land domain, you run a workstream within a complexdefenceprogramme, keeping delivery on track and stakeholders aligned. You own working-level relationships with customers and partners and actively support commercial outreach byidentifyingopportunities as theyemerge. Drawing on a broad internal network, you coordinate across Helsing's engineering, commercial and operational functions, pulling the right capabilities into your workstream at the right moment. Youmaintainrobustprogrammetracking, translate technical progress into clear reporting, and escalate risks before they affect delivery.

The day-to-day

• Run a defined workstream within a Land domainprogramme, coordinating deliverables across engineering and commercial tracks and keeping the team aligned on priorities,milestonesand customer commitments
• Own working-level relationships with customers and partners, ensuring meeting outputs, decisions and actions are clearly documented,assignedand followed through
• Maintainaprogrammetracking dashboard and risk register, presenting status clearly to internal and external stakeholders and surfacing challenges before they affect delivery
• Support commercial outreach byidentifyingopportunities within theprogrammeand contributing to bid and proposal activity as directed by senior leadership
• Coordinate across Helsing's engineering, commercial and operational functions, drawing on the right internal capabilities to drive seamless cross-functional delivery within your workstream

You should apply if you

• Have run a defined workstream within a complexprogrammein adefence, aerospace, automotive or engineering environment, with prior experience in a non-defencesector that involved structured delivery against technical and commercial milestones
• Have built andmaintainedproject tracking tools,dashboardsand risk registers, and can presentprogramme status clearly to senior internal and external stakeholders
• Have supported working-level customer and partner relationships and contributed to commercial outreach or opportunity identification within an activeprogramme
• Hold a PMP certification or equivalent, or are actively working towards one, and apply structured project management methodologies in fast-moving, high-accountability environments
• Communicate with full fluency in English and German (C1), written and spoken, are willing to travel regularly across sites, and can meet all requirements for national security clearance under applicable law

Note: Weoperatein an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if youdon'tmeet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot besummarisedin a few bullet points.

Nice to have

• Have some familiarity withdefenceprocurement structures or government contract environments, gained through supporting bids,proposalsor contract delivery

What we offer

• Competitive salary and VSOP options
• Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
• Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
• Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
• Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances
• Enhanced parental leave:22 weeksfully paid for primary caregivers &6 weeksfor secondary caregivers
• Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work

These are the core benefits across all locations; there may beadditionalbenefits in specific sites.

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