General Manager

1 week ago

Cheadle, United Kingdom Thales Full time
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 five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, 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.

General Manager

Would you like to work for a world-renowned department that research, develop and supply technology and services that will impact the future of Under Water Systems (UWS) for Sonar and Sensors In Service in the UK and beyond? Do you have a passion for driving innovative solutions to drive forwards and revolutionise our service offering? Do you want to be part of a team of specialists that are designing solutions that make tomorrow possible, today?

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced General Manager to join Thales (UWS) Under Water Systems Services Sector.

What the role has to offer:
  • Help shape and drive the strategy for the Service Sector - a rapidly growing part of the business, spearheaded by the Maritime Sensors Enhancement Team (M-SET) Project
  • Develop the strategy for products across a number of major projects
  • Working closely with new stakeholder across the support ecosystem, including customers, suppliers and the end users.
  • Drive continuous improvement in ways of working to increase growth
  • Opportunity to see innovative world leading solutions from inception to delivery
  • Great opportunity for career development

Our Opportunity
  • You will be responsible for shaping and driving the direction of UWS Services Sector, including MSET and other availability contracts, as well as developing new service models for our Royal Navy and export customers.
  • You will drive the sector working with the Sector Director, Projects and Functions to ensure that we provide the right enablement, assurance and support activities across all functions and operational capabilities in the business, thereby acting as the 'Business glue' to ensure a strong end to end delivery focus and achievement of Business Performance objectives.
  • You will lead by example, ensuring that the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of our employees is our number 1 priority. You will support the UWS Operations Director in conducting Safety Tours of UWS sites and Work Areas and ensure our Supply Chain activities are in line with achievement of our On Time Delivery and associated business financial objectives.
  • You will manage the interface to UWS Operations and Centralised Service functions to maximise the support to Services Sector to ensure alignment with the achievement of our Business Goals and Delivery objectives and drive the related improvements.

About you

Ideally, you'll:
  • Have a Naval background with significant experience within the Sensors and Sonars In-Service and Capability Development environment to ensure both the delivery of the projects within the sector and the development of the service offerings to meet emerging customer requirements.
  • Understand the Military Maritime operating environment and service delivery.
  • Have a track-record of driving performance and delivery and possess the skills to deliver through influence rather than authority
  • Enjoy and thrive on developing and performing through teamwork, not just within Thales but also with customers and suppliers.
  • Have the ability to question / challenge established processes and offer innovative alternatives.
  • Possess excellent attention to detail skills, particularly in investigating problems, and take pride in producing accurate work.
  • Have experience working in multi-disciplined team environments (suppliers, customers, internal stakeholders).
  • Possess excellent technical observational and communications skills.

Benefits at Thales

We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so. Our core benefits include a pension plan, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection as well as an employee assistance programme.

In addition, our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefits to suit your needs. You can choose to add a number of optional benefits including: healthcare cash plan, health assessments, family cover private medical insurance, buying/selling annual leave, gym membership discounts + much, much more. You can also enjoy exclusive access to our discount site

Alongside a competitive base salary and excellent commission based bonus, we offer 27 days annual leave + 1 company day + UK public holidays as well as the opportunity to volunteer up to 3 days to support local charities/communities in which we work.

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

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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