Location: Hengelo, Netherlands
Position Overview:We are seeking a proactive and capable CMS Operations Manager to enhance operational efficiency, planning, governance, and collaboration. This role is critical in improving CMS project delivery, preparing for future contracts, and strengthening product management.Key ResponsibilitiesSecuring Delivery:🔹 Data Quality & Reliability:
- Support the Work Package Manager in ensuring high-quality Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).
- Validate data accuracy and assumptions to enhance decision-making confidence.
🔹 Product, Project & Portfolio Planning:
- Assist in Earned Value Management (EVM) for major CMS projects and work packages.
- Collaborate on an integrated product portfolio schedule in Primavera.
- Support Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) by monitoring budgets, milestones, and development activities.
🔹 On-Time Delivery (C-OTD):
- Improve C-OTD and E/D-OTD to 80% by 2025.
- Identify key projects for step-change improvement.
- Conduct root cause analysis for delays and establish recovery plans.
- Ensure a performance-driven culture with clear roadmaps for CMS delivery.
🔹 Baseline Validation:
- Optimize standard CMS processes to enhance efficiency in Commitment Control Reviews (CCR).
- Address significant deviations to ensure actionable and effective CCRs.
Collaboration:🔹 Enabling Cross-Team Collaboration:
- Support data assessment within CMS.
- Ensure compliance with export control, information security, and physical security policies.
- Strengthen collaboration across Thales Group domains and engineering teams.
🔹 Product Store Integration:
- Enhance alignment between PLM and CMS teams.
- Support seamless collaboration between global CMS outlets (e.g., UK, Edisoft).
People & Governance:🔹 Skills Management:
- Assist EDMs in enhancing CMS skills using the IMPACT tool.
- Support HR-driven talent management, focusing on identifying, developing, and retaining talent.
🔹 Defining Key Contacts for Deliveries:
- Ensure CMS Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) and roles are clearly defined and communicated.
🔹 Customer Awareness:
- Increase customer deadline awareness, particularly for product owners and other key stakeholders.
- Promote a balance between product and project awareness to strengthen customer relationships.
Looking Forward:🔹 Continuous Improvement:
- Identify gaps in CMS processes and implement improvements.
- Deploy an operations execution framework from Q2-2025.
🔹 Product Convergence:
- Ensure organizational structure supports multiple product versions while minimizing complexity.
🔹 Service Support Contracts:
- Prepare for in-service support contracts (K130, Type 31) and align release plans accordingly.
Qualifications:✔ Proven experience in operations management, preferably within Combat Management Systems.
✔ Strong knowledge of project planning, S&OP, and Primavera.
✔ Team player with cross-functional collaboration experience, working across international teams.
✔ Ability to simplify complex processes, making them understandable and executable.
✔ Strong communication skills, ensuring clear and effective stakeholder engagement.
✔ Knowledge of in-service support processes for software organizations is a plus.
✔ Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.📍 Occasional international travel required | Security clearance neededReady to take on this exciting challenge? Apply now!
What We Do
Welcome into our world, where we believe in making every day beautiful! At Vera Bradley, we believe beauty has a unique power to inspire and improve the quality of women's lives. Too often, beauty gets mistaken for something lofty or perfect. Something that lives in grand gestures or for a special, elite few.
We believe beauty is so much more than what you see on the surface. Beauty belongs everywhere, and is especially moving when it appears in places you wouldn't think to look and in situations you wouldn't expect to find it. And let's face it — we know it can make the difference between an ordinary day and an extraordinary one.
Meaningful beauty has been woven into the fabric of our company since day one. Let's flash back to day one, when the idea for this company was born in one of the most un-beautiful places in the world: the airport. We brought beauty to women travelers with inspired and feminine luggage, and the brand grew rapidly and organically from there — from friends and family as its first brand ambassadors into an American brand that is loved and toted by millions of women today.
At its very core, Vera Bradley is an innovation brand for women. We've always been inspired by the needs of real women, and our proudest moments have been when we can bring communities of women together through their shared love of beauty.
Our vision of hope ... Vera Bradley Co-founders Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Patricia R. Miller began raising funds for breast cancer research in 1993 after the loss of their dear friend, Mary Sloan. Since then, their genuine commitment to this cause has evolved into the Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer. Together with our donors, event participants and volunteers, we hope for a future free from breast cancer. $25.7 million in contributions have been raised so far to support critical advancements in breast cancer research. Learn more @ www.verabradley.org.
