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Accountabilities
- Responsible for management of strategic Aluminium (Extrusions) suppliers.
- Accountable and responsible to deliver MFT projects on Time, Cost and Quality either defined under his/her leadership in the MFT or by delegation from the MFT leader (PMMA)
- Accountable for ensuring end-to-End management of the Aluminium ConBid Process (ConBid is the process under which Airbus controls the demand and production of aluminium for its complete supply chain).
Main activities
MFT Projects:
- Manage projects in the framework of the MFT (project planning, reporting to CSG leader
- Manager, financial adherence)
- Support and contribute to deployment of the commodity strategy (market intelligence, etc.) using the Airbus Commercial & Airbus procurement strategy and policy.
- Contribute to company cost improvement programs (MOVE, A350XWB RC2020+, A330) by identifying opportunities, establishing roadmap, coordinating activities, negotiating commercial agreement with the contributions of the impacted programs and functions
- Supervise & support Transfer of Work (ToW) activities for the market / suppliers
- Coordinates availability of commercial and contractual elements to secure enablement across P.
- In the frame of MFT, manages risk related to suppliers (financial, strategy, monopoly...) and define appropriate mitigation action.
Suppliers selections and negotiations in MFT Projects:
- Responsible for developing & maintaining key supplier and internal stakeholder relations.
- Lead Call for Tenders to ensure business needs, propose supplier selection and coordinate
- selection report
- Lead MFT during supplier selection process through Call for tenders processes managed in MFT
- Negotiate contract terms and conditions ; ensure contract change management, supported by contract manager
- Responsible for supplier contractual review meetings. Support and contribute to supplier
- development initiatives corresponding to the actual and future supplier performance
- Support and contribute to definition of development targets (for example cost reduction
- measures, Quality and delivery performance targets).
- Perform/participate to regular supplier reviews/assessments
- Accountable for consistency between contract terms & conditions, and the information system (SAP) at Airbus.
- Enablement and ConBid
- In the frame of PMM enabling policy, ensure that key Airbus/Airbus Group subcontractors have the opportunity to be enabled and/or able to procure against Airbus contract terms and conditions using the Enablement process.
- Ensuring end-to-End management of the Aluminium ConBid. Including but not limited to (i) continuous monitoring of aluminium demand evolution, (ii) optimize demand allocation to maximise Airbus savings, (iii) analysis of Enabled Suppliers Demand changes (i.e. Change Requests), (iv) identification of potential contractual breaches and mitigations proposal.
Outputs
- Suppliers selection through call for tender process
- Project reviews / minutes of meetings
- Contracts negotiations and Contract validation forms & Commercial agreements
- Contract reviews and Senior Management Reviews (SMR) with key suppliers
- Savings projects (MOVE / A350XWB RC Convergence) business cases, reports
