This role requires candidates to hold a valid Dutch nationality due to the security classification of the project.

Role Overview:

An exciting opportunity to take a high-impact leadership role within the F126 Frigates Project. You'll be central to ensuring the on-time, on-budget delivery of complex naval defense subsystems across an international, multi-entity environment.

As the Internal Project Manager F126, you will report directly to the F126 Project Director, overseeing approximately 10 complex/critical control accounts with a total budget exceeding 1 billion euros. Your core focus is on project management excellence, specifically schedule and cost control, while leading and unifying the F126 internal organization.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain the schedule and cost baseline. Establish and drive mechanisms for 'drumbeating,' schedule control, and cost governance.
Lead and federate product teams, including Engineering, Product, and Subcontract Project Managers, to achieve schedule, quality, and cost goals.
Chair supervisory reviews for subordinate control accounts/work packages, resolving blockers, and making decisions based on delegation from the Program Director.
Highlight key issues and risks, ensuring resource challenges are managed urgently, and initiating specific issue resolution initiatives.
Actively manage through the schedule using critical path analysis and clarifying dependencies.
High exposure to Corporate, GBU, and Country stakeholders, requiring strong coordination and influencing skills in a multi-entity setting across the Netherlands, Germany, and Romania.
Support solution delivery in customer meetings when required by the External PM.

Functie-eisen

Bachelor's degree in business administration or equivalent.
IPMA certification level B minimum (or equivalent).
Proven experience in complex international project management and multi-entity relationship management.
High accountability, exceptional team-building and leadership skills, problem-solving mindset, impactful presentation abilities, and an internal (Thales) networking capability.
A drive to ‘Think Big, Make it Happen, Together.’
Mastery of the English language. Knowledge of German is a plus, and French is a bonus.

Competenties

Ability to effectively maintain and enforce cost and schedule baselines for complex, multi-million euro projects, ensuring delivery on time and within budget.
Skill in leading, unifying, and directing diverse teams spread across multiple entities and countries (NL, DE, RO) to achieve collective project goals.
Competence in coordinating, influencing, and managing relationships with numerous senior stakeholders across Corporate, GBU, and Country levels.
The technical expertise to use critical path analysis and schedule dependencies to actively manage project timelines and drive progress.
The capability to chair high-level review meetings, enforce strong governance over control accounts, and swiftly arbitrate or escalate critical blockers and resource issues.

Bedrijfsinformatie

What You'll Gain

An interesting, high-tech role within a team of experts in an international environment.
Significant opportunity for personal development and initiative within a flexible work environment focused on work-life balance.
The chance to grow your career capacity—whether technical, managerial, commercial, or international—within a global leader in defense and aerospace.

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