Job Description

• Manage the operational performance (Logistics & Quality) of suppliers.
• Deploy supplier development initiatives.
• Co-ordinate, lead and manage multifunctional teams to ensure collaboration and engagement with all vendor stakeholders.

The Supplier Performance Management role is a strategic position and the mindset of forward, analytical and critical thinking is a necessity. A robust and healthy supply base is paramount to our continued and future success. As such, this exciting role will allow you to utilize your vendor management experience and skill set to propel us forward, meet our objectives/goals and successfully fulfill our customers' requirements.

Main Activities
• Evaluate the level of supplier risk, define and deploy the associated monitoring plans, including supporting ramp-up / down phases and the introduction of new products and dual source implementation.
• Manage and analyze the logistics and quality performance of suppliers; issue monthly scorecards based on performance utilizing the measurements of KPIs.
• Determine and lead the escalation and de-escalation process as required based on vendor's performance.
• Manage and support supplier maturity upgrading plans and promote best practices. Challenge industrial scheme, cycle and lead times, capacity management, routings, and bottleneck management.
• Support suppliers in the implementation of progress plans in line with SAFRAN's objectives and customer requirements.
• Arrange and conduct performance audits and assessments, proactively identifying concerns/issues; develop and monitor action plans to mitigate.
• Participate in the evaluation of suppliers during the vendor selection process.
• Supply chain principles and tools, including performance audits.
• Load/Capacity, Rate Readiness Assessment, Line of Balance Analysis, Recovery Plan Management, Business Continuity Plans
• Understanding of quality standards such as ISO/AS

Job Requirements

Skills
• Cross-functional project management, multidisciplinary team work.
• Negotiation and contracts
• Change management
• Good level of written and oral English
• Master of intercultural relationships.

Qualities
• Communication and listening, sense of the field, pragmatic.
• Rigor, spirit of analysis and synthesis.
• Pleasant soft skills.
• Power of persuasion.
• Ability to communicate and represent the company externally.
• Ability to effectively communicate and present to senior management, internal and external.

Frequent travel required (max 40%)
Linked to senior management and all of SLS Sites (France, UK, Mexico, China, Canada)