Programme Manager

Company: Safran Seats

Job field: Programs

Location: Cwmbran, Wales, United Kingdom

Contract type: Permanent

Contract duration: Full-time

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award-winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality, and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!

In the UK, Safran Seats specializes solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide-body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales, and Brackley, England.

The purpose of this role is to be responsible for a single, medium complexity programme or multiple low complexity programmes running concurrently.

Key Responsibilities

1. Compliance with contractual commitments and ensuring customer satisfaction within this scope.
2. Meeting objectives assigned by the Company and being responsible for ensuring that the Business Plan(s) are met within their scope of accountability.
3. Leading the Integrated Programme Team as a Matrix Manager.
4. Coordinate and manage all aspects of the programme (performance, cost, quality, deadlines) throughout the Programme from Development through Manufacture and into Service.
5. Customer Liaison and Engagement.
6. Manage Product Configuration and Programme Changes.
7. Manage Programme Risks and Opportunities.

Job Requirements

1. Proven Programme Management experience: Demonstrated experience managing large, complex programmes within aerospace, automotive, or a similarly regulated industry.
2. Educational background: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering or a related field.
3. Technical knowledge: Strong understanding of technical and regulatory standards for aerospace products.
4. Leadership and resilience.
5. Customer-centric mindset.

Complementary Description

Our in-house design studio co-creates the most innovative experiences in the sky with our airline customers and partners. Our dedicated engineering, production, and in-service support facilities are integral to delivering a high-end quality product that we keep flying throughout the life of the programme. We are fully supported by a wide team of support functions, from HR to Finance, to Business Development and Planning and Logistics, our team is built to give Safran Seats an end-to-end capability in-house in the UK.

We focus on:

• Our people: These are our four People Fundamentals that underpin everything we do at Safran:
• We believe in and foster the conditions for diversity and inclusion to thrive.
• We develop our colleagues' skills and build opportunities so you can shape our future.
• We create a trustworthy workplace to support you, as you dare to act and innovate.
• We encourage collaboration and mutual support between you and your colleagues.
• Sustainability: Our people are at the heart of our success, as we work together to achieve our mission: contributing to a safer and more sustainable aviation. We are tackling the biggest challenges in aerospace, with a commitment to work to decarbonise the industry by 2050.
• Global Mobility: As part of the Safran Group, across our businesses we are market leaders in aerospace, defence, and space; there is always potential for future mobility in the UK and internationally.