Product Line Manager Réseaux 5G (H/F)

About Thales

Thales is a global leader in high technology specializing in three business 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 courses, academies, and internal communities
• An inclusive, caring environment that respects employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

The Gennevilliers Campus is at the heart of the design, development, and support activities for major defense systems: radiocommunications, resilient networks and infrastructure systems, satellite communications, collaborative combat, and cybersecurity. Located north of Paris, it is easily accessible by public transport.

You will join the Strategy and Marketing team, attached to the "Network and Infrastructure Systems" (NIS) Business Line. A market leader with €1 billion in revenue, NIS designs, operates, and maintains resilient and secure communication infrastructures for armed forces worldwide. Within this team, you will be in charge of a DRAKON deployable network product line with the objective of developing a winning international product strategy.

More than ever, 5G and Satellite telecommunications networks on the battlefield are crucial for gaining superiority for the Forces. The Ukrainian RETEX shows us how vital they are for personnel and decisive in mission success. Your role will be to implement their evolutions within your product line.

Your main missions:

• Product Strategy: Ensure product line consistency, analyze market trends, segment and quantify addressable markets, develop the strategic plan.
• Product Management: Lead the product lifecycle, define the roadmap, the business plan, stimulate innovation.
• Business Development and Offering: Identify opportunities, animate business development teams, support offerings.

Your profile

You hold a higher education degree from an engineering school (Bac+5), ideally complemented by B2B marketing training, and you have significant experience (over 10 years) in the field of communication networks.

You have developed expertise in 4G/5G networks (RAN, CN, UE) and/or eSIM technology.

You are recognized for:

• Your analytical and synthesis skills,
• Your interpersonal skills to listen, convince, and present in public,
• Your fluency in English.

You are available for occasional travel in France and abroad.

Do you see yourself in this role? Then this position is for you!

Thales, a "Handi-Engaged" company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our greatest asset. Apply and join us!

As the position may require access to information related to national defense secrecy, 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.