Procurement Manager For Aftermarket Services (M/F)

Job Description:

Take a hop with Procurement

Airbus Procurement welcomes 3,000 employees from 50 nationalities, present in 9 countries.

We buy 70% of the aircraft and impact the full Airbus value chain!

Procurement acts as a bridge with other functions, offering multiple ways of learning, developing hard and soft skills and adding value to the company, placing people at the heart of business success. 

Enjoy the challenge in AFTERMARKET PROCUREMENT!

Join the Systems Aftermarket Procurement team to support the Airbus Flight Hours Services (“FHS”), a fast growing activities supporting already 50 airlines and more than 1,800 aircraft worldwide.

We are looking for a Purchasing Manager in Equipment, Systems and Services Procurement (PESC) for the Flight Hours Services (FHS) at Airbus Commercial Aircraft.

You will integrate a multicultural team, internationally exposed, constantly dealing with various internal stakeholders & with various equipment & systems suppliers.

The job's prime objective is to shape the FHS suppliers landscape, manage Airbus equipment & systems repair capabilities and negotiate competitive and efficient conditions of Repair and Spares purchase, in order to support the competitiveness of Airbus FHS offers towards the airlines end customers.

Accountabilities:

• You will be responsible for the management of all aspects of the Procurement role in an FHS environment: defining Product strategy on your supplier portfolio (mainly US & European suppleirs), drive Call for tenders or negotiate any cost reduction opportunities, until contractualisation.  .

• You will enforce compliance between contracts terms & conditions and the activities conducted by the supplier and by Airbus.

• You will commit the Company by achieving the signature of contractual agreements.

• You will manage the alignment across the different Company functions (mainly Flight Hour Services from Customer Services, FHS Programs, Supply Chain, Engineering and linefit Procurement ) for the purchased services

• You will ensure professional and trusting supplier relationship management with major aeronautical industry players and uphold the Company ethics and compliance standards in all your dealings

Scope:

• The PESC FHS commodity is supporting all the Airbus commercial aircraft programs, including A220.

• Procurement volume of your perimeter: around 20m$ with a 20% yearly increase of spent.

• The location is in Blagnac, France, with some travels to meet suppliers.

• You will have a large number of interfaces including major multi-national suppliers and Airbus aircraft Customer Services, programs, Supply Chain, , Quality, Finance, Costing and Legal teams.

Output:

• Efficient, consistent and trusting relationships built with key stakeholders (Suppliers, Customer Services, Programs, Operations, Legal, Finance).

• Equipment & Systems delivered on time, on quality and on cost in your perimeter.

• Effective negotiation and implementation of competitive service conditions.

• Supplier selection in line with commodity strategy and Company standards.

• Contractual agreements, up-to-date and compliant with the Procurement Policies.

• Supplier rating reflecting the actual performance of the supplier.

Competencies:

If you are able to demonstrate enough of the following skills or experience and you would like to develop the others do not hesitate to apply.

Hard skills:

• A degree level in Engineering, Business school or University

• Experience in Customer Support, Procurement, Operations, or Programmes, with efficient project management is a plus.

• Effective contract and international negotiator with proven commercial and contractual background and legal awareness.

• Experience in supplier relationship Management and Procurement, or other equivalent experience in managing outside stakeholder.

• Good technical understanding of Aircraft systems and big data management tool is a plus

• Excellent level of English is required as you will have to deal with US suppliers and all contracts are in English

• Analytics allows you to remains focused on priorities and gain in efficiency while managing simultaneously different projects / negotiations

Soft skills:

• High level of international communication skills with respect and humbleness.

• Display authentic leadership behaviour and values that people and teams want to follow.

• Creative, proactive in challenging status quo through your ability to propose new ways of working.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

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