Senior Programme Manager - Land

Blackshark; München; Vor Ort; EUR 110.000 - 170.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Relocation support

Learning allowance

Health & wellness benefits

Remote work during pregnancy

Social events & allowances

Zusammenfassung

Helsing seeks a Senior Programme Manager for its Land domain to be the primary contact for customers and partners on a large defence programme. You will align engineering, commercial and operations workstreams, track performance, and surface risks with timely reporting to leadership.

With experience delivering complex programmes, you will maintain roadmaps, drive value, and manage commercial engagement while navigating multi-party environments and ensuring national security requirements are met.

Qualifikationen

• Experience delivering a full defence/aerospace/engineering programme with customers.
• Built senior stakeholder relationships in multi-party environments.
• Developed programme steering mechanisms and dashboards.
• Applied structured project management methodologies in high accountability settings.
• Fluent in English and German (C1) and willing to travel

Aufgaben

• Serve as primary contact for senior customer and partner stakeholders.
• Maintain programme roadmaps and dashboards, tracking KPIs and milestones.
• Manage commercial engagement, identify opportunities and support proposals.
• Coordinate engineering, commercial and operations workstreams across timelines.
• Monitor risks and present corrective actions to leadership

Kenntnisse

Stakeholder management

Programme management

Risk management

Reporting to leadership

English/German proficiency

Ausbildung

PMP certification (or equivalent)

Tools

Dashboards

KPIs

Jobbeschreibung

Who we are

Helsing is a defenceAI 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, AI specialists and customer-facing program managers. 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 in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.

The role

As Senior Programme Manager for Helsing's Land domain, you are the primary point of contact for customers and partners across a complex, high-stakes defence programme. You own senior stakeholder relationships and take a considered approach to commercial engagement within a defined value proposition. Drawing on a thorough understanding of Helsing's capabilities, you align the right people and resources at the right time, keeping technical and commercial workstreams coordinated and on track. You translate programme performance into clear reporting for leadership, surface risks before they affect delivery, and drive durable improvements across teams.

The day-to-day

• Serve as the primary point of contact for senior customer and partner stakeholders, managing relationships across program delivery and ensuring Helsing's commitments are met at every milestone
• Maintain and update programme roadmaps and steering dashboards, tracking KPIs across engineering milestones and contractual obligations to give leadership timely and accurate performance data
• Manage commercial engagement within your programme, identifying opportunities, supporting proposals and keeping delivery progress aligned to agreed value propositions
• Orchestrate Helsing's capabilities across engineering, commercial and operational workstreams, aligning contributors to the right challenges entirely independently over timelines spanning a month to a quarter
• Monitor programme risks with a forward-looking approach, preparing structured course-correction recommendations for leadership before delivery timelines are affected

You should apply if you

• Have managed day-to-day delivery operations for a full programme in a defence, aerospace, automotive or engineering environment, with direct experience working within or alongside defence customers or procurement structures prior to joining the defence sector
• Have built and owned senior stakeholder relationships and can navigate complex, multi-party environments with clarity and commercial awareness
• Have developed programmes steering mechanisms, dashboards and risk frameworks, and can translate programme performance into clear, decision-ready reporting for senior leadership
• Hold a PMP certification or equivalent, or are actively working towards one, and apply structured project management methodologies in 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: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.

Nice to have

• Have familiarity with defence procurement structures or government contract environments, gained through supporting bids, proposals or 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 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for 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 be additional benefits in specific sites.

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