Procurement Project Manager

Thales Uk Ltd ,
Crawley, West Sussex
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Location: Crawley, United Kingdom Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions. Project Procurement Manager Crawley An exciting opportunity for a Project procurement manger has arisen within our Defence and Mission Systems business. The role will be represent Procurement as an integral part of a campaign, Bid or Product or Project team, supporting the resources of the function in order to optimise it’s contribution to producing procurement campaigns, bids and products, and delivering profitable projects. You will work with internal stakeholders to ensure Acquisition or Sourcing strategies for a campaign, bid, or product or project are aligned to the needs of the business in the short, medium and long term durations. The successful candidates will be working with the bid and product development teams to ascertain work package needs, competitiveness objectives and target costs. Your role will be to develop supply chain architecture; negotiate with the supply chain and obtain a complete and competitive supply chain architecture which delivers the full requirement of the bid/product. As well as the above you will also be required to work with Project that are in phase, and work closely with key stakeholders and functions as necessary, to manage all Procurement aspects ensuring work packages are executed in accordance with technical, program, cost and performance (quality and delivery) requirements. We are committed to delivering development and support to each individual that works with Thales and it is a really exciting time to be going our Procurement function as we deliver a large transformation project across the business. For more information please send us your CV. In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency. At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now This job was originally posted as www.cwjobs.co.uk/job/89828072

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