Your responsibilities
We are looking for a Funding Application Manager to lead our work on funding opportunities. You serve as an internal consultant for our business and management team and ensure that our global green hydrogen and R&D activities are adequately supported with public funding.
- In close cooperation with the global public affairs team and other internal stakeholders, you identify and prioritize relevant funding opportunities, mainly on the German and the EU levels.
- You advise our business and management teams on how to best leverage public funding opportunities.
- You help our teams coordinate public funding application processes by serving as a consultant and contact person for successful application management.
- You take the responsibility for all aspects of the funding proposal preparation to ensure the submission of our applications within the funding calls deadline. That includes all aspects of the preparation process, such as, for example, brainstorming, alignments, internal approval processes, structuring, and writing.
- You cooperate with public stakeholders in our markets and represent thyssenkrupp nucera in funding related meetings.
Your profile
- You have proven experience with public funding proposals
- You understand how the public funding process work in the EU as well as in Germany, which stakeholders matter and how to successfully engage with them; experience in additional member states is a plus.
- You have a deep understanding of the hydrogen sector and its regulatory and stakeholder landscape, coupled with a strong entrepreneurial mindset.
- You have completed your studies in engineering, natural science, or other related topics
- You have a proven track record of cooperating cross-functionally, relying on your strong ability to translate between technical experts, business leaders and policy makers.
- You have a resilient network in politics, regulatory authorities, industry (EU/DE/others), and academia
- You are fluent in English and German; further language skills are a plus.
Your benefits
As part of the thyssenkrupp group, we offer our employees high level conditions and many benefits:
- performance-related compensation according to collective agreement Metal & Electro NRW
- attractive old-age provision models
- groupwide learning measures
- thyssenkrupp Group health campaigns and programs
At thyssenkrupp nucera, we attach great importance to individual needs - to this end, we are constantly developing as an employer and offer a wide range of benefits for your perfect working-life-balance:
- In an environment characterized by flat hierarchies and a lot of personal responsibility, we create space for individual development.
- We offer further training and support in line with your individual strengths and goals in order to optimally accompany your career path.
- In intercultural and interdisciplinary teams, communication at eye level is our top priority.
- Flexitime, part-time, home office, mobile working abroad: whenever possible, we give you the flexibility you want for your work.
- For the perfect office days, we provide state-of-the-art equipment at our global locations as well as quiet and communal areas for every situation.
- For a potential move to a location near the office, we will support your relocation organizationally and financially - also internationally.
- Your personal business buddy will be at your side during your induction - so new starters quickly get to know the company, the department and their colleagues.
- If that's not enough for you: by working on green hydrogen technologies, we are ensuring clean energy for the future. Be a part of it: new era is you.
Contact
Natalie Hendrich
Head of People Attraction & Acquisition
nca-de-recruiting@thyssenkrupp-nucera.com
+49 231 229727063
