Jobs in Valenciennes, France

A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.

Job Description

· Working with a highly regarded team who will support your learning and development for a career in Project Management.

· Working directly with the key partners of Thales Alenia Space, the internal stakeholders and the customer.

• Undertake project management activities concerning the external and internal products acquisition in support of the Project Management Team to ensure the successful delivery of the project.
• Applying professional project management capabilities - giving rigour to change control, commercial awareness and industrial team management under delegation of the Project Management.
• Concur to the achievement of the key project performance results, including order intake, sales, gross margin and cash.
• Manage and maintain the partnership relation with internal and external key industrial partners, in collaboration with Procurement teams
• Define and maintain the Statement of Work for the procured product.
• Ensure that members of the project team are actively and timely reacting to the topics that involve the industrial consortium.
• Ensure data integrity of all project information including financials and schedule.
• Provide inputs on the industrial team progresses for internal and external project reporting.

• You are fluent in English;
• You have a technical or management university degree;
• You have participated in project execution phases, and You have a good knowledge of product development lifecycle either having develop product under your lead or having actively participated in products development activities;
• You are able to adapt the way of working as a consequence of changes of the project context, and you are able to take decisions–even in uncertain contexts;
• You are able to engage the project team and influence a diverse set of stakeholders as well as pursuing the project objective;
• You have excellent relationships skills and capacity to work in a complex, multidisciplinary, multi-site team and organisation.

At Thales Alenia Space we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales Alenia Space employing around 8,900 employees in 10 countries with 17 sites in Europe and a plant in the US, our mobility policy enables employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad. Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth #SpaceForLife. Great journeys start here, apply now!