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Working at Airbus

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Join Airbus in Bengaluru, India as a Digital Sourcing Manager on a permanent, full-time basis. Shape the digital supply chain, drive sourcing strategies, and collaborate with multi-functional teams in a dynamic, inclusive environment with flexible working options.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of professional experience
  • Experience in leading multi-functional teams with robust stakeholder management
  • Business acumen with IT/ITES Services industry knowledge
  • Negotiation level of English
  • Knowledge of IS/IT processes, digital trends (Cloud, SaaS), and contract lifecycle management are a plus

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Supplier Selection: Implement the Digital Sourcing Strategy by shaping the supplier landscape and driving selection processes.
  • Contract Management: Co-lead major contracts and sourcing multi-functional teams to foster rationalisation and business value.
  • Stakeholder Guidance: Act as a focal point for Digital Domains to provide expert guidance on all sourcing-related activities.
  • Performance Monitoring: Define and implement operational supply chain monitoring guidelines and track strategic supplier performance.
  • Potential transition routes: People from procurement, supply chain management, or IT vendor management roles may bring contract negotiation and supplier relationship skills, alongside meeting the required IT/ITES industry experience.

Job description

Job Description:

Job Title: Digital Sourcing Manager

Function: Digital

Location: Bengaluru, India

About us:

Ready to embrace a new challenge? Come and join us!

IT in Airbus aims at becoming a core function, where sustainable IT is starting to transform our company. Our customers can benefit from our innovative products and services, where we are the key to implement the digitalisation in our company. We connect thousands of worldwide end users everyday, and all that in a protected and safe environment.

IT is everywhere in the business, from the design of an aircraft until its delivery and beyond. Airbus started its digital journey with the objective to transform the company and to prepare it for the future. This transformation includes new global governance, new ways of working and the implementation of digital business services and platforms.

Within the Digital function, the Governance and Transformation department plays a key transversal role in enabling the Digital Transformation, from FRAMING - expressing strategic intentions and defining simple, flexible and scalable frames - to SUPPORTING Domains and PSL’s while ensuring alignment between functions and divisions - to REPORTING through consolidated views, highlighting hotspots and relevant needs for support & decision-making.

In India, the Sourcing team plays a key transversal role promoting synergies between multiple domains across Airbus worldwide & Suppliers with a flexible and adaptable approach which helps in sharing best practices, innovation, operational excellence and being efficient with cost, quality and time.

In this context, the Sourcing team enables business to focus on strategy/core competencies by providing access to right skills in the market to meet variable capacity demand with right quality and save cost.

A vacancy for a Digital Sourcing Manager has arisen within Airbus in Bengaluru . You will join the Digital business and Function Management team of Governance department in India, whose responsibilities are the transversal Digital sourcing strategy, call for tender & operational contracts.

As a Digital Sourcing Manager you will work in collaboration with Digital domains and Procurement function across Airbus’ divisions, you will contribute to secure the Digital supply chain for digital services and software solutions while transforming it for preparing the future as one team.

About the role

According to your interests & career objectives, you will have the opportunity to develop yourself on some (or all) of these activities:

  • Implement the Digital Sourcing Strategy through shaping the Supplier landscape and contributing to Supplier selection processes.
  • Drive the operational sourcing activities including governance boards to foster rationalisation & increase business value
  • Define & implement operational supply chain monitoring guidelines
  • Drive the continuous improvement of our way of working including monitoring of our strategic suppliers performance in collaboration with key stakeholders
  • Co-lead major contracts & sourcing multi-functional teams
  • Foster synergies on sourcing culture across divisions in Airbus
  • Act as focal point for Digital Domains to provide guidance on all sourcing related activities.

This role will involve some travels for business and as such you must be able to travel accordingly.

About You

You are:

  • Agile, proactive and inquisitive
  • Experienced in leading multi-functional teams with robust stakeholder management skills
  • Willing to speak up & able to adjust communication style to all levels of the organisation

You have:

  • Business acumen to understand the impact of Digital challenges along with IT/ITES Services industry knowledge
  • Knowledge of IS/IT processes & digital trends (Cloud, SaaS,..) would be a plus
  • Ability to translate Business needs into mature WorkSpec standards
  • Understanding of Work Packages Contract lifecycle management, procurement & supplier management processes and Contract management experience would be a plus
  • A high level of emotional intelligence as well as good listening and coaching skills
  • Negotiation level of English

Experience: 12+ years

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.


Airbus is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to create an inclusive and diverse work environment. AGI selects job applicants (internal and external) on the basis of suitability for the job, and irrespective of gender, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, nationality, religion, ethnicity or differently abled/(dis)ability.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
Airbus India Private Limited

Employment Type:
Permanent
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Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
Engineering Services Sub-contracting

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com .

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Apply now
Airbus

Digital Sourcing Manager

Bengaluru

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