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.