Global Defence Programme Manager

Destinus; Katwijk; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Destinus seeks an experienced Programme Manager to lead cross‑national aerospace initiatives. You will own the integrated schedule, budgets, and governance across industrial partners, ensuring timely delivery and risk mitigation.

You will oversee export-control and security procedures, coordinating reviews and data exchanges with government and industry partners. You will work with a small senior engineering team to translate technical decisions into actionable plans, maintaining rigorous

Qualifications

• 10+ years of programme or project management experience in defence, aerospace, or another regulated technical environment.
• Experience running complex multi-party or international programmes involving industrial and government stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with export-controlled and/or classified programmes, including security, releasability, and information-control procedures.
• Strong experience with integrated scheduling, budgets, milestones, risk management, action tracking, and document control.
• Technical literacy to confidently follow engineering reviews and translate decisions into clear actions.
• Fluent professional English, with French, German, or Dutch considered a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated programme schedule across Destinus and partner work packages, tracking critical paths, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables.
• Run the programme operating rhythm, including technical boards, work-package reviews and partner meetings, ensuring decisions and actions are tracked to closure.
• Own budget tracking, programme risks, issues, and escalation to programme leadership.
• Manage export-control, security, releasability, document control, and controlled information flows across consortium partners.
• Coordinate partner deliverables, interfaces, data exchanges, and review preparation.
• Support governmental and customer milestones with clear programme status, documentation, and reporting.

Skills

Programme management

International programmes

Export control

Scheduling & budgeting

Technical literacy

English fluency

Job description

Destinus seeks an experienced Programme Manager to lead cross‑national aerospace initiatives. You will own the integrated schedule, budgets, and governance across industrial partners, ensuring timely delivery and risk mitigation.

You will oversee export-control and security procedures, coordinating reviews and data exchanges with government and industry partners. You will work with a small senior engineering team to translate technical decisions into actionable plans, maintaining rigorous