Internal Project Manager Hengelo (OV) • Yacht

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• An interesting, high-tech role within a team of experts in an international environment.

• Significant opportunity for personal development and initiative within a flexible work environment focused on work-life balance.

• The chance to grow your career capacity—whether technical, managerial, commercial, or international—within a global leader in defense and aerospace.

This role requires candidates to hold a valid Dutch nationality due to the security classification of the project.

Role Overview:

An exciting opportunity to take a high-impact leadership role within the F126 Frigates Project. You'll be central to ensuring the on-time, on-budget delivery of complex naval defense subsystems across an international, multi-entity environment.

As the Internal Project Manager F126, you will report directly to the F126 Project Director, overseeing approximately 10 complex/critical control accounts with a total budget exceeding 1 billion euros. Your core focus is on project management excellence, specifically schedule and cost control, while leading and unifying the F126 internal organization.

• Maintain the schedule and cost baseline. Establish and drive mechanisms for 'drumbeating,' schedule control, and cost governance.
• Lead and federate product teams, including Engineering, Product, and Subcontract Project Managers, to achieve schedule, quality, and cost goals.
• Chair supervisory reviews for subordinate control accounts/work packages, resolving blockers, and making decisions based on delegation from the Program Director.
• Highlight key issues and risks, ensuring resource challenges are managed urgently, and initiating specific issue resolution initiatives.
• Actively manage through the schedule using critical path analysis and clarifying dependencies.
• High exposure to Corporate, GBU, and Country stakeholders, requiring strong coordination and influencing skills in a multi-entity setting across the Netherlands, Germany, and Romania.
• Support solution delivery in customer meetings when required by the External PM.

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or equivalent.
• IPMA certification level B minimum (or equivalent).
• Proven experience in complex international project management and multi-entity relationship management.
• High accountability, exceptional team-building and leadership skills, problem-solving mindset, impactful presentation abilities, and an internal (Thales) networking capability.
• A drive to ‘Think Big, Make it Happen, Together.’
• Mastery of the English language. Knowledge of German is a plus, and French is a bonus.

Waar je gaat werken

• An interesting, high-tech role within a team of experts in an international environment.

• Significant opportunity for personal development and initiative within a flexible work environment focused on work-life balance.

• The chance to grow your career capacity—whether technical, managerial, commercial, or international—within a global leader in defense and aerospace.