Costs, Strategy and Environment Analyst

🚀MaiaSpace is a European space tech company, designing, manufacturing and operating competitive and sustainable solutions for space mobility. We are driven by the belief that access to space is a major enabler for a better and more sustainable life on Earth, addressing the challenges faced by humanity: climate, resources, connectivity, and data. Our aim is to successfully design and test a cost-effective and reusable mini-launch vehicle with a maiden flight expected in 2027.

Costs, Strategy and Environment Analyst

You will based in Paris La Défense and join the environment and costs optimization + strategy team (ECO+ team), supervised by MaiaSpace Chief Strategy and Performance Officer. This team defines, implements and monitors the company’s economic and environmental strategy and has a transversal role within MaiaSpace. As part of this team, you will have direct exposure to MaiaSpace executive leadership through participation in strategic reviews, business planning activities and company performance assessments.

You will primarily work on the following topics: 

• Recurring and non-recurring costs monitoring, by maintaining costs databases, assessing gaps between development teams estimates and targets, and facilitating implementation of improvement initiatives (e.g. economic support to contract negotiations) 

• Company performance assessment, with quarterly updates of the MaiaSpace dashboard 

• Competitive intelligence and benchmarking of direct and indirect competitors, from technical, operational and economic perspectives, to support strategic decision-making and identify opportunities for performance improvement 

• Contribution to the preparation of MaiaSpace's business plan and participation in presentations to executive leadership and shareholders, with a particular focus on cost modelling and performance assumptions 

• Environmental impact assessment (life cycle analysis and qualitative comparisons to support decision making processes) 

• Environmental internal awareness initiatives (eg Space Fresco) 

Also, depending on company priorities and your interests, you may also contribute to selected engineering development activities linked to the preparation of MaiaSpace's first launches. 

🎓Qualifications and skills: 

• Engineering master’s degree, in aerospace or related fields, ideally complemented with relevant background in business / economics, e.g. via a double degree or previous experience 

• 0 to 2 years of professional experience 

• Strong analytical and modelling skills 

• Strong intellectual curiosity and interest in understanding both technical and business challenges 

• Ability to synthesize and simplify complex technical and business topics, and communicate them clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences 

• Comfortable interacting with stakeholders from engineering, operations, finance and leadership teams  

• Proactive and team spirit 

• Ability to quickly adapt to new situations 

• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint and Python 

• Comfortable exploiting LLMs and navigating high information influx 

• Fluent in English and ability to work in an environment where most people speak French 

🎬Working at MaiaSpace 

You will be joining a friendly multi-disciplinary team, comprised of multi-skilled people, following Agile and Scrum methodologies. This means that your role and responsibility may evolve over time with varied assignments and challenges depending on priorities and competences. Your work will be hands-on and in close contact with the final product. We are open-minded, transparent, pragmatic, result oriented and people centric. Teamwork is at the heart of how we work together and our co-workers share the same fundamental values: respect, humility, reactivity and autonomy with a passion for technical excellence. MaiaSpace operates across three sites, offering a unique opportunity to contribute to the full lifecycle of a launch vehicle. Our development offices are located in La Défense, our Vernon site hosts prototyping and testing activities, and our Kourou teams prepare future launch operations from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, where Maia's first flights will take place.