Sourcing & Supplier Performance Manager

Mission
• Identifies, suggests and implements the development of purchasing strategies and Supplier Performance Management under supervision of the Purchasing and Supply Chain Director

Summary of Duties (Sourcing Leader)
• Contributes to establish and formalize the SAFRAN Group India purchasing strategy and road map for each commodity in collaboration with the Purchasing Department
• Monitor market evolution and develop purchasing marketing
• Controls costs and proposes solutions to meet our competitiveness commitments and program objectives
• Identifies and evaluates new sources and suppliers in order to support the localization targets of Safran India
• Launches RFQs with identified suppliers and lead negotiations in collaboration with other commodity purchasing leaders within Safran entities
• Performs supplier selection committee in collaboration with multi-functional team
• Formalizes and contributes to establish purchasing contracts (General Terms Agreements and Price & Logistics Agreements) with new suppliers
• Manages existing contracts with current suppliers and ensures compliance with terms and conditions
• Supports new product introduction by sourcing parts to relevant supplier in each commodity involved
• Assigns purchasing and scheduling duties based on business requirements
• Works proactively to optimize purchasing costs

Summary of Duties (Supplier Performance Manager)
• Drives operational excellence and support Supply Chain by improving supplier performance
• Coordinates the supplier multi-functional team in collaboration with the Supply Chain Manager
• Monitors and manages the quality and logistics performance of suppliers
• Identifies root causes of non-performance and establishes action plans
• Guarantees the consistency of improvement actions initiated by all Supply Chain players in charge of suppliers
• Measures and communicates (internally and externally) the overall performance (OTD, DOD and PPM) through scorecards and steering meetings
• Defines and manages the monitoring plan, based on the risk analyses made with the supplier multifunctional team
• Plans and manages maturity audits and supplier evaluations
• Leads load/capacity and rate assessments at the suppliers. Defines and monitors action plan accordingly
• Works proactively to optimize supply chain operations through creative solutions

• 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

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
• Power of persuasion
• Ability to communicate and represent the company externally
• Ability to effectively communicate and present to senior management, internal and external

Frequent domestic travel required (max 30%)

Safran es un grupo internacional de alta tecnología que opera en los campos de la aeronáutica (propulsión, equipamiento e interiores), espacio y defensa. Su misión: contribuir de forma duradera a un mundo más seguro, donde el transporte aéreo sea cada vez más respetuoso con el medio ambiente, más cómodo y más accesible. Establecido en todos los continentes, el Grupo emplea a 100.000 personas para una facturación de 27.3 mil millones de euros en 2024, y ocupa, solo o en asociación, posiciones de liderazgo mundial o europeo en sus mercados.

Safran es la segunda empresa del sector aeronáutico y de la defensa que figura en la lista de «World's Best Companies» de 2024 de la revista TIME.