Project Manager

Location: Singapore, Singapore

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. Thales established its presence in Singapore in 1973 to support the expansion of aerospace-related activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Throughout the last four decades, the company grew from strength to strength and is today involved in the primary businesses of Aerospace (including Air Traffic Management), Defence & Security, Ground Transportation and Digital Identity & Security. Thales today employs over 2,100 people in Singapore across all its business areas.

Responsibilities:

• Managing Bids and Projects in accordance with Thales guidelines ensuring it addresses the objectives of the business.
• Liaising closely and collaboratively with functional teams to ensure efficient delivery of bids/projects, particularly coordinating with Engineering the industrial setting between Singapore and Melbourne to maximize efficiency and ensure project outcomes, contributing to the expansion of the Singapore Centre of Excellence.
• Effective management of stakeholders and associated communications both external and internal.
• Developing customer relationships by ensuring products and services delivered exceed customer expectations.
• Conducting gate reviews in accordance with Thales Governance framework.
• Preparing, monitoring and managing Bid and Project integrated schedule, budget, baselines, risks and opportunities.
• Coordinating and negotiating input from suppliers, partners and overseas subcontractors.
• Preparing and presenting all internal and customer reporting requirements.
• As a member of the Bids and Projects function, participate in the development of Thales functional objectives and strategies.
• Develop KPIs and conduct analysis to provide early alerts to the business of all significant emerging variances and risks; develop and execute mitigation plans to counter variances and risks.
• Guiding, coaching and providing direct support to less experienced project managers.

Requirements:

• Degree qualified in business, engineering, project management or other suitable discipline.
• Proven and effective leadership skills with a high level of interpersonal and verbal communication skills as well as the ability to manage multi-disciplinary teams.
• At least five years of Project Management experience with multi-partners / major co-contractors.
• Experience working with complex Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
• The confidence and maturity of judgement to represent the company at senior levels with customer organisations.
• Exceptional written communication skills including authoring content and editing.
• Strong internal stakeholder management in a matrix organisation.
• Strong customer focus and external relationship management.
• Ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity to make effective commercial and financial decisions.
• Experience in managing complex projects across geographies and time zones.
• Language: fluent English mandatory, Mandarin would be a plus.
• Experience demonstrating proficiency in the Air Traffic Management domain in Asia.
• Know-how in implementing new technologies.
• Experience dealing with Singapore government’s ICT frameworks (e.g. IM8).
• Experience in IT or OT maintenance and service management.

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