# Programme Manager - Air

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

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## Description

As Programme Manager, Air, you will hold the delivery plan for Helsing's UK air programmes, working with industry partners and defence customers to turn technical dependencies into deployed capability.

You will translate operational air-power needs into engineering priorities, keep partners aligned on shared milestones, and ensure that what we build reflects how air forces will operate now and in future.

Working alongside the Senior Programme Manager, you will also represent the programme to senior military and industry audiences, and you will deputise for them when needed.

The day-to-day:

- Act as the daily link between Helsing and partner engineering teams, resolving interface and integration blockers before they affect trial or flight dates

- Manage customer relationships at working level, converting operational requirements and user feedback into a prioritised backlog that engineering teams can act on

- Own the delivery plan, milestones and cross-partner dependencies, keeping a single, current view of progress, risk and critical path

- Brief senior military and industry stakeholders on programme status, risk and capability, and deputise for the Senior Programme Manager when needed

- Bring operational air-power judgement into design and trial decisions, explaining operational context to engineers in practical terms

- Track the delivery of capability to the user, ensuring each milestone moves the programme closer to deployment

You should apply if you:

- Have served in an operational air-power role and understand how combat air missions are planned, commanded and executed

- Have delivered a complex programme or workstream with external industry or government partners, and can point to capability that reached the user because of your coordination and guidance

- Translate operational requirements into technical priorities, and technical constraints into language senior audiences can act on

- Understand UK defence acquisition, operational test and evaluation, and airworthiness processes

- Communicate credibly in front of senior defence and industry stakeholders, including at short notice

- Hold, or are eligible to hold, UK security clearance and are based in the UK

Nice to have:

- Have flown as combat air aircrew

- Are familiar with uncrewed combat air systems, autonomy or crewed-uncrewed teaming concepts

- Hold a programme management qualification (e.g. APM, PMP, MSP) or have delivered using Agile methods

What we offer:

- 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 (Nilo.health)

- Social: regularly 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
- programme management
- operational air-power
- defence acquisition
- project management

### Nice to have
- combat air aircrew
- uncrewed combat air systems
- autonomy
- programme management qualification

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