About this role
Job Description:
Introduction
An opportunity for a Supply Chain and Quality Manager has arisen within Airbus Operations, Getafe (Madrid).
Brief description of the department’s mission
The selected candidate will join the Supply Chain and Quality Management team.
The department is in charge of driving operational supplier performance, ensuring contract fulfillment, and maintaining the highest quality and industrial standards across all manufacturing and delivery phases. The team works in direct contact with multidisciplinary stakeholders and external suppliers, monitoring industrial qualification maturity, mitigating risks, and steering supplier development projects to secure on-time and cost-effective deliveries.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The main tasks of the jobholder will be:
- Manage the supply chain and quality aspects of contracts, taking accountability for on-time, high-quality, and cost-efficient supplier performance.
- Oversee supplier quality approvals and verify compliance with required certifications in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
- Monitor and support New Product Introductions (NPI), Transfer of Work (ToW), and process modifications to ensure industrial qualification maturity prior to serial production.
- Assess supplier capacity, capability, and performance to drive supplier development and lead performance improvement initiatives.
- Identify supplier industrial risks, design and implement mitigation strategies, and establish short-term recovery plans when needed.
- Report on operational supplier performance using standard tools to manage all supplier management activities.
SKILLS
Is your profile aligned to the following list of skills? Apply! We are looking forward to know you:
- Education: Educated to degree level.
- Experience: Proven background managing supply chain operations, supplier quality, and leading complex industrial improvement projects.
- Soft skills: Strong negotiation capabilities, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, high motivation to lead complex initiatives, and a collaborative team spirit in dynamic environments.
- Languages: Negotiation level in English and fluent in Spanish.
- Technical knowledge: Practical expertise in supplier management tools, supplier capability and capacity assessments, risk mitigation, and industrial qualification processes (NPI / ToW).
WHICH BENEFITS WILL YOU HAVE AS AIRBUS EMPLOYEE? At Airbus we are focused on our employees and their welfare. Take a look at some of our social benefits:
- Vacation days plus additional days-off along the year.
- Attractive salary.
- Collective transport service in some sites.
- On-site facilities (among others): free canteen, kindergarten, medical office.
- Possibility to collaborate in different social and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
- Excellent upskilling opportunities and great development prospects in a multicultural environment.
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.
Company:
Airbus Operations SL
Employment Type:
Permanent
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Experience Level:
Professional
Job Family:
Supplier Management <JF-SM-SR>
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