MSET Head

Position: MSET Head of Future Support
Location: West of England

** MSET Head of Future Support*
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* Location:

Templecombe, Bristol, or Cheadle (any Thales office)  Other: full-time, hybrid, with 50% domestic & international travel
** Join a growing, globally connected defence business where you’ll shape major strategic programmes and influence the future of underwater systems!
** What the role has to offer**
* ** Established customer base** - strong existing demand and active equipment support contracts provide a solid platform for growth without the need for cold‐start business development
* ** Strategic commitment to expansion** - Leadership backing, clear investment, visibility, and momentum for growth
* ** Diversity and Challenge** – lead opportunities across many different systems, platforms, and stages in the product lifecycle across a broad customer network
** Our Opportunity
** The MSET Head of Future Support drives continued growth across the UWS UK Services business by securing major captures, shaping customer decisions, and expanding through‐life support across surface, and submarine domains. Reporting to both the MSET Programme Director and UWS Head of Sales & Strategic Campaigns  Services. The role leads senior defence engagement, builds a high‐quality pipeline spanning three business units and identifies new opportunities across the Royal Navy’s complex sensors installed base to maximise customer value.

It also plays a key role as a member of the MSET programme senior leadership team.

The ideal candidate is a senior defence‐sector leader with strong credibility in the maritime environment, able to influence high‐value programmes and guide diverse teams. They bring strategic sales leadership, stakeholder management strength, and the technical understanding needed to shape solutions and lead major captures, supported by sound commercial judgement and the security clearances required for sensitive defence work.
** Building a Future, we can all trust.
** At Thales, customer focus and innovation drive everything we do. Our Strategy, Marketing and Sales teams lead the way, powered by advanced digital technologies such as AI, Quantum, 6G, Cybersecurity and Neuroscience. Joining us means becoming part of a community committed to making the world safer through purposeful, customer‐focused innovation.

The Underwater Systems Business Line (UWS BL) delivers a comprehensive range of underwater warfare capabilities, including sonars for all major naval and airborne platforms, mine‐countermeasures systems, acoustic homing heads for torpedoes, underwater security solutions, and through‐life customer support. UWS is a global leader and one of the world’s largest exporters of sonar and associated systems. Its broad portfolio spans submarines, surface vessels, mine‐countermeasures platforms, unmanned vehicles, and maritime aircraft, supporting navies worldwide with advanced, mission‐critical undersea technologies.
** What We Can Offer
** We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.
** Flexibility
* * Your health and well-being matter to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity,…