Supply Chain Quality Manager

About the role

Airbus CRISA (Airbus Defence & Space) is looking for a Supply Chain Quality Manager to join the Supply Chain Quality Management team within Procurement and Supply Chain in Tres Cantos, Madrid area. The role covers the Space businesses of Launchers, Science & Exploration, Navigation & Telecommunications and Batteries Assembly Line, and also takes a part-time procurement role for direct and indirect materials.

Key responsibilities

• Manage supplier quality performance and control supplier activities, coordinating with Multi-Functional Teams and acting as a trusted operational interface with suppliers
• Ensure quality deliveries by managing milestones, product life-cycle reviews and deliverables, and follow up action plans to improve supplier delivery and quality
• Manage supplier quality approvals and authorisations, ensuring compliance with required certifications
• Monitor supplier performance, identify and mitigate risks, and lead recovery and improvement actions on live programmes
• Define product, supplier, site, qualification, inspection and surveillance plans, and run product quality issue resolution, FAI, transfer of work and other audits and assessments
• Lead the Vendor Review Board and represent SCQ operations in forums such as SED, TEB and MFT, and contribute to the annual Supplier Evaluation Development
• Support supplier selection, contract setup and supplier development, and assess supplier capacity and maturity during tenders and new product introduction
• For constellations business, manage suppliers from contract/PO kick-off through quality gates, deviations, non-conformances and change processes
• Part-time procurement: establish procurement activities, manage tendering, contract negotiation and monitoring, and coordinate supplier data and KPIs

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree
• At least 2 years of experience in supplier quality management
• Knowledge of electronic components, mechanical parts and electronics manufacturing
• Experience dealing with customers and/or suppliers and negotiating with them
• Spanish and English at negotiation level; French is valuable

Required skills

• SAP tool knowledge
• Negotiation skills with suppliers and customers
• Stakeholder management, decision-making and ability to work under pressure