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About Thales

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Thales est un leader mondial des hautes technologies spécialisé dans trois secteurs d’activité : Défense & Sécurité, Aéronautique & Spatial, et Cyber & Digital. Il développe des produits et solutions qui contribuent à un monde plus sûr, plus respectueux de l’environnement et plus inclusif. Le Groupe investit près de 4 milliards d’euros par an en Recherche & Développement, notamment dans des domaines clés de l’innovation tels que l’IA, la cybersécurité, le quantique, les technologies du cloud et la 6G. Thales compte près de 81 000 collaborateurs dans 68 pays.

Our Commitments, Your Benefits

• A success driven by our technological excellence, your experience and our shared ambition
• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development: training courses, academies and internal communities
• An inclusive, supportive environment that respects work-life balance
• Recognized social and environmental commitment

Your Daily Life

Join us on the Vélizy campus, which hosts a wide variety of Thales activities: aerospace, defense, civil, etc. West of Paris, this site offers a work environment equipped with the latest technological innovations and provides services to reconcile professional and personal life.

The Microwave & Imaging Sub-Systems (MIS) business benefits from 70 years of experience in the design and manufacture of imaging, radio frequency, and microwave sub-systems for professional applications in defense, space, industry, science, and medicine.

MIS is divided into several poles and Delivery Units, including the "SPACE" Pole and Delivery Unit, responsible for the development and production of Traveling Wave Tubes (TWT) for amplifying RF signals from satellite payloads (broadcast, data), scientific or defense.

Your Profile

• Engineering or PhD degree, or equivalent, in analog and digital electronics, or even mechanics/materials, preferably in radio frequencies, with at least 10 years of professional experience.
• Your initial professional experiences allowed you to design radio frequency and microwave electronic products. You validated products by testing (IVV) in the lab and carried out debugging actions.
• You subsequently gained at least 5 years of experience in managing projects and bids (quotations) and associated processes.
• You have notably managed teams of PhDs, engineers, and technicians, as well as subcontractors (engineering, production) to design and validate new electronic products.
• Budget, risk, and opportunity management are common practices for you.
• You have validated and maintain a project management certification.
• You also have a good knowledge of the industrial environment (tools, production, subcontracting management), of state clients in the space sector (CNES, ESA), and of the research environment (university laboratories, Thales TRT, etc.).
• Reactive and methodical, do you demonstrate analytical and synthetic thinking?
• Are you autonomous and decisive?
• Are you a good communicator?
• Do you have team spirit?
• Do you have interpersonal skills and availability that allow you to be comfortable with transverse management?
• Your English is fluent; knowledge of German would be a plus.

Your Daily Life

Within the department, you will be the Bid & Program Manager.

Your missions will be to:

• Define and manage the development projects for Traveling Wave Tube RF amplifiers, integrating new technologies, coordinating between the Vélizy and Ulm (Germany) sites. You will pay particular attention to meeting commitments and ensuring overall customer and stakeholder satisfaction;
• Define and manage the IVV resources required to qualify new products;
• Lead customer relations, manage legal and contractual obligations, and any disputes;
• Prepare bids for ongoing program evolution requests in coordination with sales;
• Conduct project reporting and phase review meetings;
• Manage the contract to continuously adapt it to evolving customer needs and company strategy;
• Be proactive in proposing improvements to business practices and development processes within projects and bids.

You will work closely with the technical, industrial, quality, purchasing, and sales teams to ensure the smooth running of the project.

Travel in France and abroad is expected, depending on the projects managed:

• To our clients, mainly located in France and Europe
• To our suppliers, mainly in France and Europe
• To the AVS MIS site in Ulm (Germany)

Thales, a company committed to disability inclusion, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our greatest asset. Apply and join us!