Industrial Transfer and Offset Execution Manager

Employment Details

Within MBDA Operations, an opportunity has arisen in a fast-moving domain for a Project Execution Manager in Industrial Transfer & Offset, supporting pre-contract activities and post contract award.

Salary
:
Circa £65,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working
: 1 day per week on-site due to workload classification

Security Clearance
:
British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship

All successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS) after offer.

• Company Bonus: up to 21% of base salary
• Pension: maximum total contribution up to 14%
• Flexible working arrangements welcomed
• Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave; enhancements for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing/trials
• Facilities: subsidised meals, free car parking and more

• Planning, facilitating, and taking accountability for the success of large-scale industrial transfer and offset contracts.
• Developing and maintaining key relationships with export suppliers, customers and subcontractors; regular international/domestic travel.
• Ensuring accurate reporting of progress against all aspects of project performance up to director level.
• Providing technical insight to address production and industrialization issues.
• Challenging performance/progress where appropriate, to ensure project success.
• Working to ensure pre/post contract activities are performed to a high standard.
• Leading multi-disciplinary functions to safeguard delivery of transfer contract requirements.
• Assisting in tendering/bidding activities associated with industrial transfer and offset contracts.
• Preparing and maintaining contract risk and opportunity plans and budgets.
• Export control awareness and accountability.
• Managing medium to large budgets depending on size of industrial transfer / offset obligations in each export nation.
• Coordinating projects with multiple work packages across Electronic engineering, Mechanical engineering, Assembly Integration and Test and others.
• Managing export supplier relationship management: business, project and quality management.
• Interacting with multi-functional teams including design, manufacturing, quality, finance and export.
• Developing and strengthening international working experience.
• Gaining wide range of product knowledge and associated manufacturing processes.

• Ambitious technical manager with ability to operate across multiple domains.
• Record of accomplishment in project management, including delivery of fixed cost programmes of significant value.
• Experience with in an engineering or manufacturing environment.
• Strong awareness of production techniques, practicalities and methods of industrialization.
• Experience with export, international business and supplier management is desirable.
• Enthusiastic, pro-active and tenacious individual able to prioritise and understand strategic business needs.
• Preferably educated to degree level, but candidates with significant relevant experience considered.
• Natural leader and communicator, able to build strong relationships, with experience in multi-functional/multicultural teams and delivering to tight timescales.