# Programme Manager

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

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## Description

## Job Overview

We are seeking a Programme Manager to lead the delivery of complex, high-stakes programmes in the Air Domain in France. You will work closely with the DGA, the French Air Force, and industrial partners to bridge Helsing's technology capabilities with the realities of French defence acquisition and the French Armed Forces.

## Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end delivery of Air Domain programmes in France, maintaining accountability for scope, schedule, risk, and customer commitments across the full programme lifecycle

- Serve as the primary interface with the DGA, the French Air Force, and industrial partners, building and sustaining trusted relationships at both working and senior levels

- Translate complex contractual and operational requirements from French defence customers into structured programme plans that engineering and product teams can execute against

- Identify, escalate, and actively mitigate programme risks before they become programme failures, owning the risk register and maintaining a clear-eyed picture of delivery health at all times

- Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, legal, and commercial teams, ensuring internal stakeholders understand customer commitments and external stakeholders understand what Helsing can deliver

- Structure and own programme reporting, governance cadences, and milestone reviews, both internally and with customers and partners

- Contribute to business development by supporting proposals, shaping statements of work, and bringing deep knowledge of the French defence acquisition process to pre-contract conversations

- Represent Helsing at industry events, programme reviews, and government forums as a credible and senior face of the company's Air Domain activity in France

## Requirements

- Delivered complex, multi-stakeholder programmes in the French aerospace and defence sector, with a focus on outcomes driven

- Operated at the interface of strategy and execution, comfortable building a programme plan from first principles and equally comfortable getting into the weeds when delivery is at risk

- Brought a rigorous academic foundation in engineering, technology, or business, combined with professional experience in a high-performance environment (strategy consulting, defence prime, or equivalent)

- Communicate with precision and credibility in both French and English, able to represent Helsing at senior customer and government levels in both languages

- Eligible to obtain French national defence security clearance (Habilitation à l'accès au secret de la défense nationale)

## Nice to Have

- Direct experience working within or alongside the DGA

- Understand how the DGA and the broader French MoD acquisition ecosystem works from the inside

- Exposure to AI, software, or dual-use technology programmes, particularly in the context of integration with legacy defence platforms or C2 systems

- Experience supporting or leading bids and proposals in the French defence procurement environment

- A network across France's aerospace and defence industrial base

## 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 (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
- French
- English
- programme management
- defence acquisition
- project planning
- risk management
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- AI
- software technology
- dual-use technology
- defence procurement
- aerospace and defence industry

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