Project Manager

About the role

As Project Manager within Helsing's Land domain, you will coordinate internal and external delivery across a complex, high-stakes defence programme, ensuring milestones are met and stakeholders remain aligned at every stage. Working alongside engineering teams, partners and defence customers, you will maintain the project roadmap, track programme performance and surface risks before they affect delivery.

What you'll do

• Maintain and update the internal and external project roadmap, coordinating deliverables across engineering and commercial workstreams and keeping the project team aligned on priorities, milestones and customer commitments
• Build and manage a project steering dashboard that tracks KPIs across engineering milestones and contractual commitments, providing timely and accurate programme performance data to senior leadership
• Coordinate stakeholder interactions across internal teams, partners and defence customers, ensuring that meeting outputs, decisions and actions are clearly documented, owned and followed through
• Monitor project risks and issues, surfacing challenges early and preparing structured course-correction recommendations for programme leadership before they affect delivery timelines
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Helsing's project management function, translating lessons learned from programme delivery into repeatable practices that benefit the wider organisation

What you'll need

• Have coordinated project delivery workstreams within a defence, aerospace, automotive or engineering environment, with hands-on experience supporting cross-functional teams across technical and commercial milestones
• Have built and maintained project tracking tools, dashboards or risk registers, and are comfortable presenting programme status clearly to senior internal and external stakeholders
• Hold a PMP certification or equivalent, or are actively working towards one, and can apply structured project management methodologies in fast-moving, high-accountability environments
• Communicate with full fluency in both German and English, written and spoken, and are comfortable navigating standard defence and procurement terminology across both languages
• Are willing to travel regularly to partner and customer sites and meet all requirements for national security clearance under applicable law

Nice to have

• Familiarity with defence procurement structures or government contract environments, gained through supporting bids, proposals or contract delivery in a military or complex programme context
• A background in engineering, political science or a related discipline that supports confident engagement with the technical and operational complexity of defence programmes

What they offer

• Competitive salary and VSOP options
• Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
• Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
• Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
• Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work