Supply Chain Quality Manager

Job Summary

The Supply Chain Quality Manager at Flexrotor will be responsible for securing part deliveries from suppliers on time and at high quality to support the Flexrotor business.

• Responsible for On-Time and On-Quality Delivery of Flexrotor purchased material: create and manage short-term recovery plans.
• Responsible for the interface with primary suppliers: program, industrial, supply chain, and quality executives and senior management.
• Responsible for analyzing supplier’s production value stream and providing feedback on improvement opportunities to de‑risk performance to plan.
• Assess lean manufacturing practices and develop improvement plans.
• Responsible for supplier quality approval and compliance: secure compliance with Airbus Quality Management System (QMS) & industry quality standards.
• Support cascade of Airbus quality requirements and implementation through quality assurance plan, compliance matrix, and business quality review process.
• Support internal and external audits: lead industrial and product assessments & audits.
• Responsible for establishing the supplier surveillance plan and coordinating Airbus participation in onsite activities within its supply chain.
• Responsible for ensuring workable end‑to‑end industrial planning and regular review of supplier and its supply chain’s configuration change notifications, multi‑sourcing strategy, and transfers of work.
• Monitor Tier 1 / Tier 2 suppliers in the region as necessary: delivery & quality performance, capital expenditure and ramp‑up action checks, recovery plan and quality notification eradication, and, if applicable, completion of shop floor GEMBA.
• Support the Industrial Quarterly Review (IQR) process and capacity assessments, proactively participate, anticipate planning/execution risks or opportunities and drive timely action closure.
• Manage multiple, complex supplier quality improvement projects with Airbus and supplier senior management.

• Collaborate with responsible Airbus employees across multiple functional organizations in the USA and Europe to secure the on‑time and on‑quality delivery of Flexrotor purchased material.
• Work with responsible Flexrotor suppliers to ensure they are implementing the necessary corrective and preventative action plans in a timely manner in support of Airbus targets.
• Consolidate & maintain an outlook of key industrial, supply chain, and quality risks & opportunities and drive mitigation plans with the support of the responsible Flexrotor suppliers.
• Organize and/or support business and executive reviews (program review meetings, industrial quality reviews, assessments, etc.) at Airbus and supplier locations.
• Ensure timely communication to internal stakeholders of responsible Flexrotor suppliers’ status and risks per above assessments.

• Recurring reports / KPIs / dashboards highlighting progress, mitigated risk and opportunities.
• Integration of supply‑chain activities both with other regional procurement offices and teams.
• Integrated supplier pictures of overall readiness towards required rates and review the Red / Amber during Control Tower and Industrial Reviews.
• Manage deviation to defined industrial targets, communicate to all stakeholders and implement corrective actions with suppliers through root‑cause and eradication methods to mitigate recurrence.
• Supplier is in full compliance with all cascaded requirements in support of Airbus production organization approval with any actions from audits and assessments closed in required timescales.
• Lead and close complex, cross‑functional improvement projects on‑time and with expected benefits achieved.
• Timely revision and update of Airbus & supplier RASCI / governance documents as needed.
• Documented improvement in supply chain meeting contractual obligations.
• Feed strategic / decisions to achieve Flexrotor aircraft deliveries in‑line with Airbus multi‑functional team strategy and Airbus annual production goals.
• Secure supplier annual performance improvements in accordance with agreed target letters.

• Other duties as assigned…