Digital Sourcing Manager

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.

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.

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