Innovation and Pre-award Project Manager

**About SiPearl**:
SiPearl is building the European high-performance low-power microprocessor dedicated to supercomputing and AI inference. This new generation of microprocessors will first target EuroHPC Joint Undertaking ecosystem, which is deploying world-class supercomputing infrastructures in Europe for solving major challenges in medical research, security, energy management and climate with a reduced environmental footprint.

SiPearl is working in close collaboration with its 30 partners from the European Processor Initiative (EPI) consortium - leading names from the scientific community, supercomputing centres and industry - which are its stakeholders, future clients and end-users.

SiPearl employs more than 190 people in France (Maisons-Laffitte, Grenoble, Massy, Sophia Antipolis), Germany (Duisburg) and Spain (Barcelona).

***About the role****:
As part of collaborative research team, the Innovation and Pre-Award Project Manager has the mission to develop the portfolio of research projects.

**What a regular day at the job might look like**:

- Understand the value chain and ecosystem in different domains relevant to the research strategy of SiPearl
- Build a complete and sound knowledge on the programs and calls available at EU and national levels relevant to the global research strategy of SiPearl
- Identify and participate to relevant EU and national innovation and research events
- Along with the head of collaborative research programs, define calls of interests and priorities between the different calls of interest
- For all the calls of interest, understand and ensure compliance with the rules in force, the timeline, the participant portal and all the specificities of the calls
- Maintain an annual plan of relevant calls available at EU and National levels
- Attend networking events on the different programs for “match making”
- Identify and reach out to contacts to build valuable consortium of partners
- Coordinate interactions within SiPearl to prepare proposal and define the scope, timeline, effort, budget, skills needed internally and the approach to cooperate with the partners
- Prepare proposals with the support of SiPearl’s stakeholders and in collaboration with involved partners under the responsibility of the project coordinator
- Analyze the feedback received on any submitted proposal
- Manage DoA and more generally the submission-to-signature workflow on the participant portal
- Prepare the Grant Agreement and Consortium Agreement with SiPearl legal department
- Prepare smooth transition to Post-Award project team
- Maintain the budget projections for the business plan and update the resource activity forecast
- Document the processes and methodology for managing the proposals from the preparation to award decision
- Create and enrich a knowledge database to improve efficiency in preparing proposals
- Provide regular reports and updates on calls funnel to SiPearl management

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**What would make you succeed in this role**:

- Master degree in science and ideally in computer science (or relevant field)
- 5+ years of project management in international or multi-cultural context, including experience in facing public institutions, clients and diverse stakeholders from science, industrial, technical, political, academia domains
- You have a proven experience of working within a compliance framework with a strict respect of deadlines
- You can prioritize and multitask between projects
- You are proactive in building strong relationships with diverse stakeholders and foster cross functional collaboration
- You can delegate while controlling quality
- You can embrace new challenges and act within ability for strategical thinking
- You have appetite for innovation and understanding new technologies
- You have excellent communication skills and are proficient in English, both written and spoken
- Proficiency in Spanish or German would be highly appreciated

**Recruitment process**:
️Discovery interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner (30 min)

️ AssessFirst personality test - no need to worry, there is no wrong or right answer; our goal is to see beyond your resume (45')

️ 2 Technical interviews (1h each)

️ Interview with one HRBP in order to answer to your last questions (30 min)

**Benefits and conditions***:

- **Contract**: Permanent Contract (CDI)
- **Benefits**: annual bonus; meal vouchers (60% covered by SiPearl); health insurance (70% covered by SiPearl); 5 days per year of remote work from any EU location; illimited access and pre-paid sessions with a practitioner of your choice on our mental health partner app, moka.care; technical, linguistic and personal development trainings; BSPCE
- **Work model**: Hybrid (2 days/week remote)
- **Office**: This role is open for our locations in France (Maisons-Laffitte, Massy, Grenoble and Sophia Antipolis), Spain (Barcelona) and Germany (Duisburg)
- Awesome **activities **such as: Hackathons, Training Challenges, Quarte