Senior Project Manager for Optical Payload Studies(m/f/d)

Your Tasks

• Programmatic lead and coordination of the project execution within a multi disciplinary and multinational team: Steering of the overall process
• Risk analysis and risk management of complex technical products
• Ensure design-to-cost and design to company value chain
• Analyze project KPIs, derive actions for optimization and lead corrective action
• Assure compliance to schedule, cost framework and quality
• Coordinate and liaise work and interaction of project team, in-house departments, subcontractors, and customers
• Create programmatic and business documentation, provide support for technical documentation

• Overall management and responsibility for proposals and studies in line with market developments and requirements Preparation of competitive proposals
• Support in the acquisition of new proposals and studies

• Planning and programmatic lead of technology development and predevelopment activities
• Organizing and leading discussions and meetings with customers
• Creating and maintaining a programmatic project framework ensuring customer satisfaction in line with key company strategies
• Being a mentor and advisor for younger staff

Your Qualifications

• A demonstrated relevant work history and experience of at least 15 years in a technical multi-project management type role with a holistic responsibility for optical space instruments or comparable systems with high technological complexity
• Proven deep understanding and successful management of the challenges of space instrumentation projects, design-to-cost, and value chain driven product design
• Solid understanding and proficiency in space-relevant engineering topics
• A proven history in multi-stakeholder management where the stakeholders come from programmatic, technical, political, and other backgrounds
• A proven history of managing technology development and predevelopment activities
• Significant knowledge of standards (ECSS) and regulations in the space engineering business
• Experience in cost engineering and design-to-cost work tailoring
• Business and entrepreneurial thinking and experience in guiding a team in situations with competing stakeholders
• An organized and structured task approach
• Leadership & team player mentality
• Effective communication skills. Internal & external representation capabilities
• Fluency in spoken and written English. Fluency (C2 level) in German is a strong asset and mandatory over the medium-term