Execution and Performance Manager
Thales
Posted: March 4, 2026
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Execution and Performance Manager (EPM) is responsible for ensuring the smooth execution of complex projects, managing the performance of teams, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results.
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Job Description
A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.
Execution and Performances Manager (EPM)
• Ensure transition of the contract with Procurement during hand-over, and the effective endorsement of the contract clauses by the Supplier.
• Lead the relationship with the Supplier all along the execution of the contract for all matters related to the supplied products (technical, industrial, planning, Quality, contractual).
• Manage internal and external activities according to the SOW/SOA and the Surveillance Plan.
• Continuously monitor the contract execution to insure the deliveries and to minimize the delays and global Cost of Non Quality impacts for TAS if any, in particular by ensuring risk early detection and mitigation(managementbytherisks),andquickresolutionofemergingproblems,relyingonall internal necessary skills.
• Manage Supplier progress status.
• At each formal step of the contract (reviews, delivery,...) :
• Ensure the exhaustiveness and conformance of the deliveries with the contractual commitments.
• Get approved the related delivered documentation, acceptance data, ...
• Authorize the delivery of the goods and the corresponding invoices.
• Manage formal reviews all along the contract ( KO, PDR, CDR, MRR, TRR, TRB, DRB, ...) (EQSR/MPCB is managed by Quality);
• Issue regular Supplier Performance Assessment (SPA) : annually and at each Contract completion
At Thales Alenia Space we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales Alenia Space employing around 8,900 employees in 10 countries with 17 sites in Europe and a plant in the US, our mobility policy enables employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad. Thales Alenia Space sees space as a new horizon, helping to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth #SpaceForLife. Great journeys start here, apply now!