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Airbus

Manufacturer of commercial aircraft, helicopters, defense

Supply Chain Quality Manager

Quality EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMadrid, SpainNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree.
  • Spanish and English at negotiation level.
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in supplier quality management.
  • Knowledge of electronic components, mechanical parts, and electronics manufacturing.
  • Experience dealing with customers and/or suppliers, conveying requirements, and interfacing with suppliers' higher management.
  • Ability to prioritize workload and work autonomously with a rigorous, customer-oriented mindset.
  • Knowledge of SAP.
  • Negotiation skills with suppliers and/or customers.
  • Interpersonal skills, including communication, multifunctional team-working, flexibility, and proactive behavior.
  • Persuasion skills.
  • Effective communication and active listening.
  • Decision-making skills.
  • Risk, opportunity, and uncertainty management.
  • Business-oriented mindset and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to work under pressure and in crisis situations.
  • High commitment to quality, schedule, and costs.
  • Digitalization mindset.

Responsibilities

  • Manage contract execution and supplier quality performance.
  • Effectively control supplier activities and maintain a close understanding of each supplier's overall situation and scope.
  • Coordinate stakeholder interfaces involved in supplier operations management and coordinate with the corresponding Multifunctional Team (MFT).
  • Implement sustainable improvements in Supply Chain performance.
  • Act as a key operational supplier interface and build trust and teamwork between Airbus and suppliers.
  • Ensure on-quality deliveries by managing milestones, product life-cycle reviews, and deliverables, while coordinating internal and external stakeholders.
  • Protect production by correcting, improving, and developing supplier delivery and quality performance, including follow-up of action plans.
  • Manage supplier quality approval and authorization, ensuring supplier compliance with required certifications in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
  • Monitor, control, and drive progress; identify and mitigate risks and opportunities; communicate status and plans; and escalate when relevant.
  • Monitor and control supplier performance and define, lead, and monitor recovery and improvement actions for live programs and future preparation.
  • Manage corrective action plans to prevent recurrence and reduce deviations and concessions.
  • Define product, supplier, site, qualification, inspection, and surveillance plans with relevant contributors.
  • Verify compliance with applicable requirements and secure industrial maturity through supplier capability and capacity reviews, product and supplier audits, inspections, and assessments, including Product Quality Issue Resolution and Management, Production Process Verification (FAI), and Transfer of Work.
  • Contribute to deployment of Supply Chain and Quality standards, methods, and tools.
  • Lead the Vendor Review Board and represent Supply Chain and Quality operations in forums such as SED, TEB, and MFT.
  • Contribute to commodity strategy through participation in MFTs, including supplier selection, contract setup, and supplier development needs.
  • Contribute to the annual Supplier Evaluation Development (SED).
  • Assess suppliers during tendering and contribute to selection decisions.
  • Manage and perform product assurance activities with suppliers in coordination with the Product Assurance team.
  • For constellation business, manage suppliers day to day from contract or purchase-order kickoff and deliver recurrent deliverables; participate in or lead progress meetings, design reviews, and production reviews, including quality gates, deviation and waiver processes, non-conformance processes, change processes, supplier surveillance, and performance-improvement action plans in coordination with relevant stakeholders.
  • During development, support the Procurement and Supply Management (PSM) role with industrial and manufacturing knowledge, constraints, and supplier maturity information.
  • Monitor or support new product introduction to ensure industrial qualification maturity before serial production; assess supplier capacity, capability, and performance and contribute to supplier development.
  • Perform procurement activities for direct and indirect materials on a part-time basis, including establishing procurement activities for products, services, or suppliers and ensuring contractual frameworks and purchasing conditions.
  • Contribute to sourcing, manage tendering and contract negotiations to achieve purchasing conditions compliant with company requirements, and monitor contracts through innovation, development, serial, and support phases to ensure application of terms and conditions and expected supplier performance in logistics, support, quality, and cost.
  • Manage day-to-day supplier relationships and running projects to optimize customer value while minimizing total cost of ownership and risks.
  • Contribute to multifunctional and multidivisional teams throughout tendering, contracting, and contract life-cycle phases.
  • Implement supplier recovery, improvement, and development plans to secure delivery of products and services in conformity with contract conditions.
  • Coordinate stakeholder interfaces in supplier operations management and manage suppliers day to day to provide services and deliverables.
  • Identify supplier risks and propose mitigation actions; establish short-term recovery plans with Supply Chain operational teams.
  • Coordinate and set up battery procurement.
  • Manage or contribute to contract execution and supplier on-quality, on-time performance; implement recovery, improvement, and development plans for quality and delivery; coordinate stakeholders and contribute to the corresponding Multifunctional or Divisional Team; and consolidate and coordinate key supplier data and KPIs with Supply Chain Quality Managers in the group.

Desired Qualifications

  • French language skills are valuable.

About the Company

Airbus

Manufacturer of commercial aircraft, helicopters, defense

Airbus designs and manufactures a wide range of aerospace products, including commercial airplanes, helicopters, defense systems, and space technologies. Its aircraft and rotorcraft are built with integrated airframes, propulsion, avionics, and digital systems to carry passengers, cargo, or conduct military missions, while its space division covers satellites, orbital infrastructure, launch services, and secure communications. Airbus differentiates itself with an end-to-end portfolio across commercial, defense, and space, a global manufacturing and services network, and a focus on sustainability and digital transformation. Its goal is to enable global mobility and connectivity while reducing aviation’s environmental impact through sustainable aviation and collaborative innovation.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Blagnac, France
Founded
1970

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