Project Manager (f/m/d) for Radar and Optronic Systems (French Speaking)

Stryker Corporation; Ditzingen; Vor Ort; Vertraulich; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading technology company in Ditzingen is seeking a Project Manager for Radar and Optronic Systems. This role involves leading customer interactions, managing project risks, and ensuring on-time delivery. Candidates should have over 5 years of relevant project management experience, excellent communication skills, and fluency in French to communicate effectively with clients. Join a dynamic team committed to innovation in security and defense technology.

Qualifikationen

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant project management experience.
• Excellent communication skills to manage complex stakeholder structures.
• Knowledge in radar and/or optronic technologies desirable.
• IPMA Certification or equivalent required.
• Fluent in French to communicate with French-speaking customers.

Aufgaben

• Lead customer interactions for project management.
• Maintain partnerships with decision-makers across functional organizations.
• Manage project risks and profitability.
• Prepare program dashboards and present status at meetings.
• Focus on precise planning and timely escalation of issues.

Kenntnisse

Project management

Communication skills

Ability to manage complex stakeholder structures

Risk management

Team organization

Knowledge in radar and/or optronic technologies

Change management

French language skills

Ausbildung

IPMA Certification or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

Location: DITZINGEN SRA OME, Germany

We Say HI*

Project Manager (f/m/d) for Radar and Optronic Systems (French Speaking)

Thales in Germany is part of an internationally leading technology group in the defence and security, aerospace as well as cyber security and digital identity markets.

In Ditzingen, you will encounter security solutions for monitoring and safeguarding borders and for border controls, protection of civil and military facilities and tactical communication. This is the right place for you if you want to work with us on practical highly mobile radars for ground and coastal monitoring or night vision goggles and multifunctional heat imaging equipment. Join the Thales expert team for radar, optronic vision systems for armoured military vehicles or for protecting the field camps of the German Federal Army. We are happy to have you on board!

Your mission Project Manager:

• Lead customer interactions for the project via direct customer interface. Negotiate in collaboration with the sales manager the amendments in the scopes of the contract in keeping with company rules and process and handle change requests.
• Cultivate and maintain strong partnerships with decision‑makers across functional organizations (Engineering (SW/HW/System), Procurement, Supply Chain /Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics and Finance) to build and continuously improve process to ensure high quality, on‑time delivery and ownership/accountability.
• By respecting the cost objective (assigned costs) and thus the margin, while trying constantly to reduce the costs, to manage the risks with caution and to take advantage of internal and external opportunities. Drive the project to ensure customer satisfaction by meeting deadlines, quality specifications, and project profitability and Staffing, budget and plans defining for all aspects of the program, the timetable and workload, risks and opportunities.
• Provide visibility of the project progress, making sure to obtain the necessary resources and identifying/resolving issues. Once a month, prepare program dashboards and present program status during program review meetings. Oversee project risks and related action plans.
• Focus on precise planning, forecast, continuous risk and contingency management, change management and timely escalation. Organize the team and delegate the tasks to the individuals in charge of the work packages.
• Manage the financial aspects of projects including costs, margin, cash and revenue, the project scope and schedule. Ability to manage programs in a matrixed and ambiguous environment.

We are looking forward to:

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant project management work experience (Program Management, Engineering Management) by managing complex projects in matrix organisations
• Excellent communication skills to manage complex stakeholder structures including customers
• Knowledge in radar and/or optronic technologies desirable but not a fixed criteria
• IPMA Certification or equivalent certification from a recognised organization
• French language skills to be able to communicate with French speaking customers

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.

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 Lena Digel is looking forward to your online application on our Career portal.

Lena Digel - Talent Acquisition Partner #LI-LD2

*Human Intelligence

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