Business Manager

Thales is a global technology leader trusted by governments, institutions, and enterprises to tackle their most demanding challenges. From quantum applications and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity and 6G innovation, our solutions empower critical decisions rooted in human intelligence. Operating at the forefront of aerospace and space, cybersecurity and digital identity, we’re driven by a mission to build a future we can all trust.

Responsibilities 

• Ensure the consolidation of the financial aspects of the version contents and manage related alerts with the EDMs or PMs
• Assist in the vision and roadmap consolidation with the EDM and ensure workload and teams/squads inter- dependencies are well identified
• Ensure coherence between the teams, managed through work packages, and squads with planned backlog and workload, velocity, capacity
• Ensure capitalisation process is deployed and analyse results both to manage EAC or engage new quoting process for business support
• Manage workload associated plans or alerts (reinforcement or rearrangement of the squads) with the HoD and the EDMs
• Support the roadmap and vision by ensuring consistency with the workload of the teams and squads
• Deploy a robust process to support Financial EAC projection
• Analyse the current situation, propose a transition plan with short/mid/long term objectives
• Define metrics and routines to follow and monitor the progress of the financial activities
• Support the teams to reinforce our way of working
• Adjust our approach depending on the type of subcontract (full delegation, center of services, …).
• Anticipate issue and mitigation with EDMs

Main Outputs

• Financial consolidation and associated plans per Product Increment
• Workload consolidation and associated plans
• KPI on finance and workload
• Earn value deployment and consolidation

Success criteria

• Clear financial predictability
• Clear and reliable workload and capacity projection per PI Planning and at project termination
• Clear and reliable earn value management
• Updated Cost Model available all along the product journey

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Qualifications

• Relevant Degree from recognised institution or relevant work experience (10+ years)

Experience

• A track record of delivering successful software complex projects in contexts relevant to Thales
• Full engineering lifecycle management, including software engineering, specification engineering, qualification and deployment.
• Very good understanding and strong experience of Cost/financial management
• Experience on complex program with numerous stakeholders
• Comprehensive understanding of generic processes and techniques used to schedule project activities (for example; WBS, OBS, milestones, cost models, dependencies, EVM, workload).
• Working in a complex, multidisciplinary, multi-site and multi-country organisation
• Knowledge and skills
• Good engineering knowledge including process, methods, tooling and environments
• Deep knowledge of traditional WP breakdown and Agile@Scale approach
• The ability to directly manage subcontractors in a complex program, ensuring best interest of the Company is always upheld

At Thales, we’re committed to fostering a workplace where respect, trust, collaboration, and passion drive everything we do. Here, you’ll feel empowered to bring your best self, thrive in a supportive culture, and love the work you do. Join us, and be part of a team reimagining technology to create solutions that truly make a difference – for a safer, greener, and more inclusive world.