Senior Defence Programme Manager – Land Domain

helsing.ai; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 127,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Learning allowance

Health & wellness

Social events

Parental leave

Family support

VSOP options

Job summary

Helsing is seeking a Senior Programme Manager for the Land domain to be the primary contact for customers and partners across a complex defence programme. You will own senior stakeholder relationships, align resources, and keep technical and commercial workstreams coordinated to deliver on milestones.

You will translate programme performance into clear reporting for leadership, surface risks early, and drive durable improvements across teams while enabling cross-site collaboration and regular

Qualifications

• 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 programme 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.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for senior customer and partner stakeholders, managing relationships across programme 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.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Program management

Dashboard reporting

Risk management

Multilingual EN/DE

Education

PMP certification

Job description

Helsing is seeking a Senior Programme Manager for the Land domain to be the primary contact for customers and partners across a complex defence programme. You will own senior stakeholder relationships, align resources, and keep technical and commercial workstreams coordinated to deliver on milestones.

You will translate programme performance into clear reporting for leadership, surface risks early, and drive durable improvements across teams while enabling cross-site collaboration and regular