Supply Chain Quality Manager (Temp Agency)

A vacancy for an job within the Procurement Operations organization (internal siglum PO) has arisen. The jobholder will be integrated within the Composites & Chemicals team (POMC) focusing in particular in securing the present and future “on time, on quality” deliveries to Airbus and its supply base. The POMC team is a key member of the Materials & Detail Parts (POM) organization within Procurement Operations.  

Team activities:

The team is responsible for managing the industrial performance of a supply base of around 250 manufacturing sites of flyable and ancillary materials, all along the product lifecycle: from supplier selection (call for tender phase), through supplier approval and new product qualification, to series operation and supplier development. Its main tasks are:

• Coordinating the tactical activities and mid-term actions with the relevant stakeholders in the composites commodity Multi-Functional Team (MFT), integrated also by the commodity buyers and Programs, Materials and Processes Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering organizations, and securing its execution in alignment with the agreements taken

• Ensuring the industrial qualification of suppliers and products in line with Airbus requirements

• Managing the contract execution, being responsible for the suppliers’ on time, on quality deliveries

• Ensuring constant compliance of suppliers and products to Airbus requirements

• Managing supplier performance, implementing recovery plans when needed to secure deliveries

• Actively planning, supporting and monitoring suppliers development in line with Airbus sourcing strategy

Jobholder’s activities:

• Supply chain operations management:

  • Support the SCQMs in the different Commodity Sourcing Group (CSG, subdivision of the Composites MFT) for composites and chemicals: Manage communication and stakeholder management for E2E topics

  • Assess the optimization of the Supply chain from an internal analysis of performance

  • Identifying risks of supply through appropriate identification in close cooperation with the SCQM,  and avoiding them through implementation of dedicated action plans

  • Supporting recovery plans following supply chain bottlenecks or disruptions in order to secure delivery of the products in conformity with contracts

  • Participating to transfers of work (ToW) to enable changes of material supplying sites while securing the continuity of the material supply operations 

  • Participate in logistics improvement and cost reduction initiatives with suppliers and implementing continuous improvement aspects

  • Contributing to the suppliers development plan setting longer term development targets and supporting its implementation in coordination with the Supplier Development Team when needed

• Quality management:

  • Analysis of impacting problems detected at the Airbus’ supply chain

  • Promote best practices and provide proposals concerning quality standard and process improvement

  • Verify couple (Manufacturing site - Material) compliance to applicable requirements with all relevant contributors

  • Actions follow-up, reporting and escalation in case on deviation to industrial target

  • Contribute to deployment of supply Chain and Quality standards, methods and tools (APQP, Airsupply, Skywise...)

  • Managing suppliers’ quality recoveries and following-up of the quality actions plan of the suppliers (8D tool and others)

  • Managing supplier quality approval & authorization in coordination with Airbus relevant stakeholders

  • Supporting new products introductions (NPI) process for enabling the use of new materials in Airbus aircrafts

  • Steering and proofing the industrial compliance activities to ensure the maturity of the product before serial phase

  • Surveilling the appropriateness of the suppliers’ Quality Management System

  • Reinforce the transversal activities regarding APQP projects

The candidate we are looking for:

• Engineering or other technical studies
• At least 5 years of working experience, ideally in related field
• Negotiation level in English and Spanish
• Autonomy
• Effective communication
• Good stakeholder management, enjoys working beyond functions and sigla
• Eagerness to learn and to develop yourself professionally 
• Transnational mindset, intercultural awareness