Senior Program Manager Launch Services (m/f/d)

Mission Brief

As we increase our launch cadence and expand our launch operations across multiple sites, we are looking for an Senior Program Manager Launch Services in our Mission and Launch Operations team in Germany to drive integrated launch planning and scheduling across the organization.

In this role, you will become the central coordination point for launch planning between mission management, launch operations, development and production. Your mission is to ensure that customer commitments, launch site availability, operational capacity, hardware readiness, and development roadmaps are translated into a coherent and executable launch schedule.

Your Role in Our Space Mission:

Launch Planning & Coordination

• Own and maintain the integrated launch schedule across missions, campaigns, and launch sites
• Coordinate launch site bookings, flight allocations, and key hardware delivery milestones
• Ensure alignment of launch plans with customer commitments and operational readiness
• Identify capability, resource constraints and bottlenecks before they impact mission execution
• Drive resolution of schedule conflicts, critical path issues, and execution risks

Forecasting

• Develop launch forecasts and capacity planning to support operational and commercial objectives

Performance & Cost Management

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