Procurement Project Manager MSET UWS

2 months ago

Templecombe, Somerset, United Kingdom Thales Part time
Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

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.

Procurement Project Manager MSET UWS (Under Water Systems)

Templecombe/Bristol

A superb opportunity has arisen within our Procurement team within the Thales Under Water Systems part of our business. The role will be to represent Procurement as a Procurement Project Manager, working as part of an integrated team with the businesses functions to enable the Procurement organisation and develop world class supply chain solutions (competitiveness, quality, on time delivery), fulfilling the customer needs and aligned with Thales Procurement strategy led by the Global Category Managers. To this end, and to introduce supplier innovations to our solutions, he/she will play a key role in the early stages (pre Gate 1 / definition phase) of Bids, Projects and/or Product teams activities.

UWS is at a critical point - with exciting and significant business growth ahead of it, developing and deploying cutting edge capabilities its customers. With Supply Chain representing significant stakes in Project delivery, strong Procurement support is required to engage in this next phase of the UK Domain's business strategy.

The Procurement Project Manager MSET UWS will support the Marine Sensor Enhancement Team (MSET) contract, which is a vast new contract we have awarded - worth £1.85 billion.

It will maximise days at seas for the Royal Navy Fleet by ensuring sustained, long-term availability and resilience of critical assets, spares and repairs over the next 15 years.

By significantly increasing equipment availability, M-Set will increase the longevity of sensor and sonar capability, which is critical for the Continuous at Sea Deterrent (CASD) and wider ship and submarine capabilities. The result is GLOBAL Security will be boosted, the Royal Navy is presently fully engaged around the world. The Royal Navy operates ships and submarines across every ocean and continent. On Active duty, 365 days a year.

Thales UK will aim to provide full availability of the equipment that is the eyes and ears of the Royal Navy. Utilising data technology, including AI and virtual reality to provide a more proactive, and predictive maintenance systems, the project will secure a projected 450 employees across 5 Thales sites in the UK.

Responsibilities

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.

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...)

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, we offer a variable compensation plan bonus, 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.

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.

If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.

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

The successful candidate will need full Security Clearance (SC) -For more information and guidance please visit the UKSV website*

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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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