Product Line Manager (PLM)

About Thales

Thales is a global leader in high technology specializing in three sectors: Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly €4 billion per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

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

Your daily life

You will join Suneris as a Product Line Manager (PLM) specializing in Telecommunications and an expert in network cores.

Suneris, a French technology SME integrated into the Thales Group, offers IT security solutions integrated into communication networks, for the benefit of French and foreign administrations (Ministries of the Armed Forces, Justice, and Interior).

Your missions consist of:

• Leading product strategy and defining its roadmap;
• Defining product evolutions and introducing new product lines corresponding to customer needs;
• Interfacing with the Product Development team regarding product evolutions;
• Monitoring market and Commercial Pipeline evolutions, and analyzing competition;
• Providing technical support to the sales team for promoting offers to our clients (building arguments/business cases);
• Defining pricing;
• Managing product commitments (content, quality, deadlines) with our clients.

Travel in France and abroad is to be expected.

Your profile

• Holder of a Bac+5/Engineering degree in Telecom and/or Telecommunications, you have at least 10 years of experience in:
  • Fixed and mobile telecommunications networks (4G, 5G, VolTE);
  • "Legal Interception", ETSI and 3GPP standards;
  • Defining and implementing a product strategy;
  • Selling a product to sovereign administrations.
• You know the Defense sector.
• Proficiency in English is required.

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

As the position may require access to information related to national defense secrets, the selected candidate will undergo a security clearance procedure, in accordance with the provisions of articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 9, 2021.