Head of Projects, Bids and PMO

Location:

Oxford, United Kingdom A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you;

whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Thales Alenia Space (TAS) Joint-venture (JV) is a key player in space activities, in particular in the domain of telecommunication, navigation, Earth Observation, radar, orbital infrastructures for both civil and military applications as well as for institutional or commercial customers and proposes a wide range of equipment and solutions in relation thereof. TAS in the UK are focused on world-leading propulsion, refuelling and defence opportunities.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. We are a part of Thales Group and we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across four major industries;
Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Working closely with the UK Chief Executive Officer and the senior leadership team, the successful candidate will be leading Project Management, Bid and PMO activities within Thales Alenia Space UK developing and implementing project delivery plans, overseeing performance, intervening for positive change and aligning controls to support a range of high profile space missions.

This role is based primarily in Harwell, Oxfordshire

• Would you like to be part of our Thales Alenia Space in the UK future?
• Do you enjoy leading a portfolio of projects, managing change and delivering great outcomes?
• Are you someone who can bring the Projects and PMO communities together to ensure that we work harmoniously?
• Would you like to influence our organisation, to deliver better results more reliably?
• Can you see yourself coordinating a complex set of projects in order to deliver excellence?
• Could you see yourself executing a capture strategy for bids, winning new business for the organisation?
• Can you bring innovation into the execution of this mixed portfolio of activities ensuring commercial results for the business?
• Would you like to hold an influential position in the Thales Alenia Space Joint Venture, engaging meaningfully with stakeholders across the business in the UK and across the world – ensuring they have a great relationship with our UK entity; relationships that deliver?
• Do you see yourself as a problem solver, someone who can help customers feel confident and overcome any challenges in partnership with you?
• Can you inspire a team of project, bid and PMO people to deliver outstanding commercial results for our customers?

• An influential position; leading a team to deliver on our project commitments to time,…