Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.
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.
With a 70+ year heritage in world class engineering, Thales in Northern Ireland is a leading high technology company in the defence and space sectors. Recently making news winning a large contract worth £223 million. It’s a great time to join Thales Belfast
We are growing and looking for Procurement Project Managers (PPM) to join us initially on an 18 month fixed contract.
We are looking for individuals who have procurement project management experience and are you will be passionate about developing and leading teams to deliver exceptional performance. You will also be articulate and have the confidence to present stats and data on how the team are performing against KPIs.

WE ARE KEEN TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE THE BELOW SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Capability to manage by influence and to convince
• Open minded (listen, share ideas) and bring added value / capture innovation
• Capability to animate international multi organization project (or bid) teams (requesters, Global Category Managers/Category Managers/Category Buyers, contract management,…)
• Capability to speak out and to handle conflicts / problem resolution
• Understanding of the BL business model and of products’ lifecycles
• Make or Buy and risk management skills
• Basics in Finance
• Long term vision of product or project
• Ability to commit and to deliver
• Procurement experience
• Bid and Project Management competencies
• Bring added value / capture innovation
• Knowledge in cost evaluation, Design to Value, Lean approach.
• Basics skills in regulations (export control, Reach, etc…)

The successful candidate will be working with internal stakeholders to ensure acquisition or sourcing strategies for a campaign, bid, or product or project are aligned to the needs of the business in the short, medium and long term durations. As well as working with the bid and product development teams to ascertain the work package needs, competitiveness objectives and target costs. Develop supply chain architecture; negotiate with the supply chain, under these mandates, to obtain a complete and competitive supply chain architecture which delivers the full requirement of the bid/product.
When in project phase, you will work closely with key stakeholders and functions as necessary, to manage all Procurement aspects ensuring work packages are executed in accordance with technical, program, cost and performance (quality and delivery) requirements.