# Senior Program Manager, Defense

[Sphere Defense](https://gurify.com/jobs?q=Sphere%20Defense) · Brussels · Posted yesterday

Senior

[Project Manager](https://gurify.com/jobs/project-manager)

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## Job description

### Who we are

Sphere Defense is a fully funded technology startup with the mission of providing allied countries with sovereign, effective and seamless autonomous countermeasures to neutralize todays’ and tomorrow’s aerial threats.

Sphere Defense was founded by industry veterans with previous successful exits, and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, in the heart of Europe.

### About you

You are an experienced and highly-motivated Program Manager that has demonstrated experience managing multinational defence programs, with a mix of governmental, academic and industry stakeholders.

### What you’ll do

- Coordinate Sphere Defense participation to multi-national defence programs.

- Manage stakeholders such as industry partners, NATO, national MODs, academic institutions, etc.

- Build realistic, long term proposals, including budgets

- Build timelines and schedules and update them based on actual results

- Ensure that internal and external activities are carried out on-time, with the right quality level

- Be hands-on and participate to test campaigns, working close to the engineering teams when needed

- Travel to onsite meetings and test campaigns, in Europe and abroad, depending on program needs

- Draft, review and take ownership of program documentation

- Be a team player and a mentor, being available to support and grow the team when needed

### Location: Onsite in Brussels, Belgium

### Requirements

- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Engineering, Economics, or equivalent

- Demonstrated experience coordinating multinational defense program with the involvement of prime defense contractors, governmental and academic institutions.

- Good understanding of missile systems

- Solid understanding of RFx and tender processes of governmental procurement organizations

- Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality, customer-facing proposals and documentation

- Obsessive attention to detail when needed, without losing track of the bigger picture

- Experience with planning, budgeting, resource allocation and scheduling, and with project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Wrike and Jira

- Excellent interpersonal communication skills in written and spoken English; French, Dutch, Italian or German is a plus

- You are a self-starter, able to work in a high-ambiguity environment and willing to take up new challenges

### Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with drones (quadcopters, VTOL) or precision-guided munitions

### What we offer

- Attractive compensation

- Year-end bonus eligibility

- Stock Options Plan

- Mobility Budget

- 32 days of holidays

- Meal vouchers

- Private Health insurance

We are building a core team of hard-working people. If you want to join a company with tremendous impact and you are autonomous, creative and driven, we want to hear from you!

Sphere Defense offers attractive compensation, stock options, and a unique opportunity to change the global defense landscape.

This role is only open to candidates with right to work in Belgium. We cannot provide visa sponsorship at this time.

**Live in Sphere Defense’s hiring system.** Read from the company's own applicant tracking system, not reposted from a job board — so it's a real, open requisition rather than an ad that outlived the role.

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