ГерманияProgramme Procurement and Partnership Manager
5 дн. назад
Германия
Manage supplier and partner relationships to ensure timely deliveries and develop resilient supply base for defence AI production.
О компании
- is a defence AI company. Our mission is to protect our democracies. We aim to achieve technological leadership, so that open societies can continue to make sovereign decisions and control their ethical standards.
- As democracies, we believe we have a special responsibility to be thoughtful about the development and deployment of powerful technologies like AI. We take this responsibility seriously.
- We are an ambitious and committed team of engineers, AI specialists and customer-facing programme managers. We are looking for mission-driven people to join our European teams – and apply their skills to solve the most complex and impactful problems. We embrace an open and transparent culture that welcomes healthy debates on the use of technology in defence, its benefits, and its ethical implications.
Обязанности
- As Programme Procurement & Partnership Manager in Munich, you will own supplier and partner relationships within the CA-1 programme. You will secure timely deliveries and shape the move from a prototype-focused supplier selection to a resilient, sovereign and high-performing supply base ready for series production. You will also set up in-service support with suppliers and shape supplier engagements for new product variants, including export versions. Working closely with programme and functional teams, you will turn procurement needs into clear plans and secure the supply that lets deliver defence capabilities to its customers.
- Manage supplier and partner relationships across the CA-1 programme, and secure delivery of supplier and partner commitments against agreed milestones
- Transform a prototype-focused supplier selection into a resilient, sovereign and performant supply base for series production
- Establish in-service support with suppliers, including performance-based logistics arrangements with clear service levels
- Support the development of new product variants, including export versions and additional capabilities, by shaping supplier engagements
- Capture procurement needs, align them with programme and functional stakeholders, and track deliveries against scope, cost and time
Будет плюсом
- Experience in Supply Base transition from Development to Production and In Services Phases
- Project Management Certification (e.g. PMP)
Условия
- 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
- These are the core benefits across all locations, there may be additional benefits in certain locations.
- 's Candidate Privacy and Confidentiality Regime can be found here .
Другое
- Negotiate supplier agreements that balance commercial, technical and delivery requirements
- Manage supplier engagements from plan to delivery, tracking scope, cost and time with clear reporting
- Apply export control rules to supplier engagements and product variants
- Handle security requirements in supply chains, including the protection of sensitive information
- Have worked on Defence Aerospace programmes and understand their procurement and assurance demands
- Note: We operate in an industry where women, as well as other minority groups, are systematically under-represented. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the listed qualifications; ability and impact cannot be summarised in a few bullet points.
- ’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns
- The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital. You will face unique Engineering and AI challenges that make a meaningful impact in the world
- Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure. The defence industry is entering the most exciting phase of the technological development curve. Advances in our field of world are not incremental: is part of, and often leading, historic leaps forward
- In our domain, success is a matter of order-of-magnitude improvements and novel capabilities. This means we take bets, aim high, and focus on big opportunities. Despite being a relatively young company, has already been selected for multiple significant government contracts
- We actively encourage healthy, proactive, and diverse debate internally about what we do and how we choose to do it. Teams and individual engineers are trusted (and encouraged) to practise responsible autonomy and critical thinking, and to focus on outcomes, not conformity. At you will have a say in how we (and you!) work, the opportunity to engage on what does and doesn’t work, and to take ownership of aspects of our culture that you care deeply about