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Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Manager – Industrial Architect and Production Transfers

Supply Chain ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCholet, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A BAC + 5 degree or equivalent is required.
  • Significant experience in industrialization of complex products, including industrial and supply-chain capability audits and assessments, is required.
  • Experience in industrial localization, production and technology transfers, and Build-to-Print and Build-to-Spec approaches is required.
  • Experience in strategy and structuring of supply chains, including planning, procurement, scheduling, and associated physical, informational, and financial flows, is required.
  • Ability to work effectively in an international environment and English proficiency sufficient to lead meetings, write technical documents, and interact daily with multicultural stakeholders are required.
  • Experience leading projects incorporating electronic and mechanical technologies is required; experience in defense, aerospace, or tactical systems is preferred.
  • Ability to unite and positively influence stakeholders, challenge organizations, and support decision-making with multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders is required.
  • Ability to establish trusting relationships and advance work in complex contexts through listening, teaching, and pragmatism is required.
  • Ability to carry a strategic vision, encourage perspective, and guide projects with conviction and discernment is required.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of five employees and support bids and projects in France and internationally in connection with localizing activities to meet industrial offset requirements.
  • Contribute to defining, evaluating, and consolidating robust, coherent, competitive industrial solutions that integrate technology, supply chain, procurement, quality, compliance, and economic performance considerations.
  • Organize, prioritize, and manage the service's multi-project activity.
  • Ensure performance, quality, schedule, and deliverable-robustness objectives are achieved.
  • Support the development of team members' skills.
  • Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Lead the identification and recommendation of mature industrial solutions suited to bid and project needs, and contribute to evaluating proposed scenarios for feasibility, robustness, and competitiveness.
  • Participate in validating selected suppliers and assessing their ability to meet programs' industrial requirements.
  • Ensure the maturity of technologies, processes, industrial assemblies, and supply-chain organizations through reuse of existing solutions or development of improvements.
  • Coordinate industrial localizations by country, incorporating existing supply chains to develop coherent solutions compatible with bid and project requirements, local industrial capabilities, and operational and economic performance objectives.
  • Contribute to defining international industrial models suited to customer contexts and execution constraints.
  • Travel regularly, approximately once or twice a month, to teams and partners, including sites in Brive, Laval, and Gennevilliers, as well as customers and suppliers; travel internationally approximately quarterly in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in defense, aerospace, or tactical systems is preferred.

About the Company

Thales

Global defense and aerospace electronics

Thales designs and delivers critical technology for aerospace, defense, and digital security. Its products include electronics, software, and data-security systems that power air travel, payments, and modern military platforms, by integrating hardware and software to build systems such as avionics, radar, cybersecurity, and secure communications that collect sensor data and protect networks. It stands out through deep industrial experience, end-to-end solutions across defense, aerospace, and cybersecurity, and a focus on AI and quantum tech, aided by strategic acquisitions and partial state ownership. Its goal is to provide reliable, secure, and connected technologies that support national security, public safety, and everyday life by solving complex security and connectivity challenges.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Meudon, France
Founded
1893

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