Director Operations

Standort: Stuttgart, Germany

Together, we are shaping the world around us to build the future - here and now Our experts’ competences and cultural backgrounds are unique in their diversity. Today, they develop solutions for the data-based, autonomous and immersive world of tomorrow - from autonomous vehicle control systems to collaborative combat systems, from interconnected cockpits to safe clouds and cyber-secure communication, from self-learning radar systems to virtual reality solutions for training and predictive maintenance. Passion for innovations and cutting-edge technologies is our motivation.

As a recognised part of the German high-tech industry, we develop tomorrow's key technologies today. We offer innovative, highly secure, robust and highly available communication, information and control systems as well as services for safe land, air and maritime traffic, for civil and military safety and protection requirements, and in the field of digital identity and cyber security. Furthermore, we develop and manufacture satellite components for national programmes and for the global market.

Thales Deutschland with its headquarters in Ditzingen has about 3,900 employees at 9 locations with their own production and development.

**Director Operations **(M/F/d) in full or part time (Ref.Nr. R0182462)**:
**at our headquarters in Ditzingen near Stuttgart**:
**You will enjoy having this responsibility:
The Head of Operations, manages and develops all the dedicated teams in order to guarantee the efficient execution of the operational backbone of the Transportation Business in and from Germany.

**It also involves the following tasks:
- Managing the Operations Functions, in coordination with the respective Corporate Function head: Supply Chain, IS&IT, HSE (Health, Safety & Environment), Real Estate and Facility Management, Competitiveness and LEAN
- Managing the operational departments Resource Planning (incl. Workload Management), Order Management (incl. Export Control) and Installation as part of the field deployment process
- Consolidating the Unit performance plan (incl. Continuous Improvement) and implementing it within the whole organization (Unit)
- Deploying the Groups policies related to all operational matters, controlling their implementation and the achievement of the associated objectives
- Facilitating and supporting all the structures, entities of the Unit, to develop business synergies, improvements and best practise sharing
- Proactive contributing to the elaboration of the Multi Year Budget, to its execution and to the Business Opportunity Reviews, ensuring that the yearly budget is duly executed and delivered by the Unit entities
- Driving the Group MTIP (Medium Term Industrial Plan) preparation and driving the execution and its deployment within the Unit

**Reporting Line:
- Reports to the Unit Management (Legal entity) and Business Line Operations Function

**You have:
- Graduate with a degree in science or engineering. Business Administration (Economics) or similar educational background
- Several years of relevant operational and managerial experience
- High level of technical / operational expertise, analytical and intercultural skills and expertise
- Experience in working in an international and multinational group with partners outside Germany
- Exceptional interpersonal skills with experience in developing its direct reports, especially in regards to Leadership dimension
- High degree of results orientation, focus, drive, energy, enthusiasm and intrinsic motivation for change
- Business fluent in German and English
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills

**Do you want to know more? The Talent Acquisition Team looks forward to hearing from you:
**Tel.:
+49 17656937968

**What we offer you**:
We understand the needs and interests of all people at Thales. The personal and professional development as well as the advancement of teams are very important to us and we invest a lot. We offer a wide portfolio of training opportunities. We honour accomplishments and provide an attractive compensation policy.

An open dialogue and transparency are actively practised and demonstrated. We actively promote diversity, create the necessary framework conditions and commit to a resolute support for all forms of diversity. We are convinced that mixed teams get the best results and that equal opportunities are a matter of course. For our exemplary dedication in terms of a personnel management based on equal opportunities we were given the TOTAL E-QUALITY award. Special programmes promote diversity and inclusion as well as compatibility of family and career. We assist our employees with the balancing act between private life and the exciting challenges at Thales.