Airbus
Supplier Development Manager
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Job Description
We are looking for a Supplier Development Manager to join Airbus and be based predominantly at one of our supplier's sites across the UK. You will collaborate with the wider Airbus Procurement Operations (PO) organisation and report in to the Head of the team.
This is a brilliant opportunity to join a worldwide aircraft manufacturer and contribute to one of its major challenges; supporting and developing its Supply Chain. If successful, you would be part of a team who is redefining the way Airbus partners with suppliers and building the industry of the future driving a supportive approach in order to deliver at the highest quality.
In this role you will be accountable for leading, within and in collaboration with suppliers, complex projects/missions focused on sustainably improving the industrial performance of a supplier or a supplier’s site and/or restoring and securing supplier performances.
Tasks & Accountabilities
- Assessing the suppliers' industrial maturity and developing suppliers accordingly:
- Leading the detailed assessment and evaluation of the supplier’s industrial situation
- Defining the action plan, with the supplier and SCQM, to improve or stabilize the supplier’s performance
- Ensuring supplier and Airbus team engagement and commitment to deliver the expected results
- Detailing the tactical plan with the various stakeholders, securing the results of the mission according to the objectives and associated roadmap defined and agreed with the internal customer
- Identifying the necessary competences, building the team with suppliers and Airbus people, developing the skillset of the project team
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Frequent travel periods and/or long stays in supplier sites will be required so you need to be available to travel accordingly.
Skills & Experience
- Demonstrable experience the aerospace or similar industry
- Experience using Industrial and Lean competencies
- Experience in Supply Chain Management
What Airbus Can Offer You
- A competitive salary with annual profit share
- An ever growing list of company benefits including enhanced pay for maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave
- Very strong, very real career development options across our transnational, market leading company
- A working pattern of 2 to 3 days per week on site and 2 to 3 days remotely
- Flexible hours - 35 per week with no core hours on Friday afternoons!
At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.
Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.
Please let us know if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for the selection process – you can share this with the Recruitment Business Partner who gets in touch if you are invited to interview. Examples of this may include (but is not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.
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Company
Airbus Operations Limited
Employment Type
Permanent
Experience Level
Professional
Job Family
Supplier Management
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Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com.
At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.
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