Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for aLead Procurement Project Managerto join Above Water Systems. This can be based at either Templecombe or Cheadle (hybrid working)

If you are looking for a hands on Procurement Project Manager (PPM) with additional team lead responsibilities.... then this could be the opportunity for you!

In addition to the PPM responsibilities the core role of the Lead provides:

• Overall accountability for PPM activities and performance for the assigned Sector

• People management and leadership to assigned resources including organising, planning, prioritising and managing the development and performance of assigned individuals

• Provide a single point of contact (SPOC) into the assigned Sector

• Contribute and report to PMR's at Sector level. Project level PMR's to be supported by the assigned PPM

• Be a source of escalation, providing support to PPM's by removing blockers and providing guidance on issues

• Represent the Head of Procurement / Procurement Director when delegated, in senior reviews for example Sector Business Reviews

You'll represent Procurement as an integral part of a campaign, Bid or Product or Project team, leading the resources of the function in order to optimise it's contribution to producing competitive campaigns, bids and products, and delivering profitable projects.

Work 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.

Work with the bid and product development teams to ascertain the work package needs, competitiveness objectives and target costs. Develop a 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.

Deliver a risk managed set of Terms and Conditions of contract for all elements of the supply chain.

In project phase, 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

Right for this role?

Ideally, you will have experience of working as an experienced PPM or in a mid- senior level Procurement role.

• Commercially astute with advanced negotiation skills experience including differing contracting models
• Broad range of Procurement skills focused on: Needs Analysis, Design to Cost, Make-Team-Buy, Technical Interface Management, Acquisition Strategy definition, International Sourcing, Supplier Management, Risk and Opportunity Management, Subcontract Management.

• Exceptional Interpersonal skills to optimise cross-functional & cross-organisational working, engage key stakeholders and to work effectively with suppliers.
• Able to analyse complex information to create an easy to communicate short-medium and long term solution, addressing Thales requirements.
• Sets stretched goals for themselves and their suppliers, prepared to take risks in order to gain competitive advantage for Thales.
• Contributes to improving the capability and competencies of the Procurement team in order to enable the function to deliver to business needs.
• Uses full understanding of internal and external customer needs to build a strong customer first culture within the solutions they define and the team in which they work.
• Understands the impact of their performance and that of their suppliers on Thales results.

Desirable

• Team management, leadership and team development
• Major development/manufacture sub-contract program/project management experience

• Broad technical and commercial understanding of the Thales product and associated bought in supplied parts and services
• Ability to lead Make, Team, Buy decisions
• Upstream purchasing techniques deployment, especially Co-Development, Co-Engineering, Value Engineering, Value Analysis, Functional Analysis, Cost Analysis.

What We Can Offer

We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

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 is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

Additional Security Information

Due to the sensitive nature of much of the work undertaken by Thales Training Solutions, all applicants must hold or be eligible for UK MoD Security Clearance (SC level minimum).

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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