# (Senior) Programme Manager - Land

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

Helsing is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies.

As Senior Programme Manager for Helsing's Land domain, you will lead a complex, high-stakes defence programme.

## The Day-to-Day

- Own Defence Relationships: Serve as the primary point of contact for senior military customers, procurement bodies, and industry partners, ensuring contractual commitments are met at every milestone.

- Drive Governance: Maintain programme roadmaps and steering dashboards, tracking KPIs across engineering milestones, military certification gates, and strict defence contract obligations.

- Lead Commercials: Manage commercial engagement within defence procurement frameworks, driving follow-on opportunities, leading proposals, and protecting the programme’s value proposition.

- Orchestrate Delivery: Align Helsing's engineering, commercial, and operational teams autonomously across multi-quarter and multi-year lifecycles.

- Mitigate Risks: Monitor technical, regulatory, and integration risks, delivering clear course-correction plans to leadership before timelines are impacted.

## You Should Apply If

- Proven Defence Track Record: Multiple years of experience managing end-to-end programme delivery specifically within the defence sector.

- Ecosystem Mastery: Proven ability to own senior relationships across MoDs, armed forces, and industrial consortia, navigating multi-party defence environments with commercial and political clarity.

- Execution Rigour: Strong track record of building steering mechanisms, risk frameworks, and executive reporting in regulated environments.

- Clearance & Languages: Full fluency in English and German to negotiate with local stakeholders; willingness to travel regularly, and ability to immediately obtain national security clearance.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary and VSOP options.

- Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation.

- Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance.

- Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support.

- Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances.

- Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers.

- Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work.

## Skills

### Required
- defence programme management
- stakeholder relationship management
- commercial engagement
- risk mitigation
- English
- German

### Nice to have
- PMP/PRINCE2 certification

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