A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science, and orbital infrastructures for over 40 years. Our diverse skills, talents, and cultures enable our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators) to Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate. Product Assurance Responsible in Advanced Projects and Bids in Torino for DESI Mission and Responsibilities Mission: Implement quality assurance dispositions, ensuring customer satisfaction for bids and product development, and achieving TAS programmatic, economical, and quality objectives. Ensure bid quality and define the Quality Assurance for offers with contributions from project, product, supplier, and engineering quality assurance. Guarantee all conditions for creating a winning bid within the given timeframe, providing confidence in the maturity and quality of proposals and customer satisfaction. Ensure bids and solutions meet customer requirements and expectations. Assist operational disciplines in increasing their maturity. Contribute to bid framing, baseline tailoring, stakeholder involvement, and governance rules. Evaluate bid preparations, ensuring critical steps, decisions, and risk mitigation actions are completed before milestones. Key Responsibilities/Outputs Ensure bid quality for TAS: participate in bid reviews, contribute to risk and opportunity management, verify critical steps, ensure contractual compliance, escalate issues, lead lessons learned, define QA part of the offer, and establish a quality network for multi-entity bids. Ensure quality of advanced projects for TAS: Coordinate PA managers across the consortium, analyze customer PA requirements, manage PA tasks, support project management and engineering disciplines, approve development and qualification approaches, support system trade-offs, contribute to TRL evaluations, identify critical items, evaluate suppliers, and review project documentation. The Candidate Profile The candidate should have significant experience in bid or project/product management, with in-depth experience in complex space projects and quality assurance management as a plus. Other skills include: Ability to connect, network, and cooperate at all levels of the organization. Maintain perspective in difficult circumstances. Strong communication, impact, persuasion, and negotiation skills. Sensitivity and constructiveness in conflict situations. Open-minded, quick learner, creative, problem solver. Hands-on, pragmatic approach. Positive attitude. Languages: Fluent English; French or Italian are a plus. At Thales Alenia Space, we offer careers, not just jobs. With around 8,900 employees across 10 countries and 17 sites in Europe plus a US plant, our mobility policy supports career development at home and abroad. We see space as a new horizon to build a better, more sustainable life on Earth. SpaceForLife. Great journeys start here. Apply now! Summary Location: Torino Type: Full-time J-18808-Ljbffr