Supply Chain Quality Manager

Role: Cabin Seats Supply Chain Quality Manager

Rate of Pay: Please apply for further details 

Location: Filton 60% on site

Working Pattern: Standard 35 hours across 4.5 days (working between 7-7 at business discretion)

Length of Contract: Until 01/10/2024

Travel: Bristol/Northern Ireland. A couple of times a month

Scope of work = Cabin Seats suppliers (all aircraft program). The exact scope will depend on the team's organization but the time of your arrival but the focus will likely be on two major suppliers (one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland).

Today's team comprises three "groups" and SCQM are based in Germany, in France, and in the USA. You will be part of one of them (the groups are transnational and not “country-oriented”).

Capacity to travel to supplier's (and Airbus's sites) is expected (details to be defined). Written/Spoken English is a must.

You will join an ambitious team, and a moving-forward attitude will be one of the keys to success as much as your resilience to a complex environment.

- Act as focal point towards the suppliers for operational activities and contract management, and as ambassador of the supplier toward internal functions.

- Manage supply chain & quality aspects; be responsible for On Time and On Quality performance.

- Manage supplier quality Approval/Authorization,ensure that suppliers are compliant with certifications required in coordination with relevant stakeholders.

- Support industrial readiness to ensure maturity before serial production. Contribute to development projects (New Products Introduction).

- Contribute to the understanding of a consolidated forecast to suppliers and ensure that suppliers will have the required capacity.

- Assess the supplier capacity, capability & performance and contribute to the supplier development by supporting improvement plans.

- Identify the supplier industrial risks and propose mitigation actions. Manage anticipation to prevent and/or mitigate delivery and quality issues.

- Work out short-term recovery plans. Manage industrial crises if needed.

- Initiate and manage supplier performance improvement projects, set long term development targets together with the suppliers and in coordination with the Supplier Development Team.

- Present the situation of the supplier on operational performance (KPIs, assessments..) during MFT meetings.

- Maintain a close communication and coordination with the operational teams at internal customer sites, to ensure the contribution of all relevant functions to the delivery of procured goods or services.

The "SCQM" will work in a challenging environment, in a context of high expectations with regard to delivery/quality stakes. She/He must prove:

- a strong industrial background and understanding (direct/indirect experience in a plant / workshop is preferred, whatever the product)

- excellent communication and stakeholder management skills (including capacity to understand other points of view)

- down-to-earth decision-making abilities (arbitrate and explain)

- a continuous and data-driven improvement mindset

- ease to manage various and numerous topics; prioritize and summarize them.

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