Procurement Manager Aerostructures - Fast Track & Special Programmes in Manching

# **Procurement Manager Aerostructures - Fast Track & Special Programmes (d/f/m)** The Procurement Manager for Fast-Track & Special Programmes is an autonomous, high-impact procurement role designed to drive maximum speed, agility, and cross-functional integration during early-stage aerospace development.Operating in a streamlined, fast-paced environment, the job holder is empowered with delegated authority from the standard Commodity Procurement teams. You act as the direct, hands-on procurement lead for the programme—managing early supplier evaluations, market scouting, design-to-cost, and supplier selections independently. By operating within pre-aligned strategic guardrails set by the Commodity Heads, you eliminate organizational friction and ensure rapid programme execution while safeguarding long-term industrial logic and corporate compliance.This role is also available with reduced weekly hours and an adapted scope of tasks. ## **Your location** Located about an hour’s drive north of Munich, Manching is an up-and-coming market town that offers a wide range of leisure and cultural activities. Here, you can enjoy the quality of life in the countryside while the pleasures of near-by cities are still within easy reach. ## **Our Benefits for You** ● **Fair Compensation & Extras:** Attractive remuneration and individual additional benefits, such as company pension schemes, mobility offers (e.g., bike leasing), or corporate discounts with partner companies in accordance with our current guidelines.● **Time for You (and Your Loved Ones):** 30 days of annual leave based on our collective agreement (35-hour week); work-life balance through flexible working hours (flextime), mobile working, part-time options, job sharing, and sabbatical opportunities.● **Growth Made Easy:** Excellent professional development opportunities and international, group-wide career perspectives.● **Feel Good at Work:** On-site company doctor; comprehensive health programs (sports courses, preventive care, etc.), canteen and cafeteria, and local childcare facilities at selected locations.● **Diversity Connects:** Work in a diverse environment with more than 140 nationalities, where exchange, mutual support, and inclusion are part of our DNA. **Your tasks and responsibilities****Delegated Sourcing & Rapid Execution*** **Empowered Supplier Scouting & Evaluation:** Independently lead the scouting, evaluation, and capability assessments of potential suppliers for new work packages, ensuring rapid turnaround times without waiting for multi-layered commodity reviews.* **Delegated Tender Management:** Drive the end-to-end early sourcing process (RFIs, RFPs, downselections) under delegated authority from the respective commodity teams. Ensure supplier selections align with pre-agreed commodity strategies, roadmaps, and quality baselines.* **Early Contract & NRE Structuring:** Negotiate development agreements, Statements of Work (SoWs), and Non-Recurring Engineering activities, balancing the immediate schedule requirements of the development team with commercial risk protections. **Upstream Architecture & Make-or-Buy Execution*** **Agile Make-or-Buy Driver:** Represent Procurement directly in early-stage Engineering and Industrial Architecture meetings. Actively participate in shaping Make-or-Buy choices and Core vs. Non-Core package definitions to fit the specific timeline and budget constraints of the programme.* **Design-to-Cost & Early Budget Control:** Drive early-stage target costing and Design-to-Cost (DtC) activities. Challenge engineering assumptions directly to keep both Non-Recurring Costs (NRC) and future recurring unit costs aligned with the programme’s business case. **Streamlined Commodity Alignment & Strategy Guardrails*** **Strategic Guardrail Management:** Establish up-front \"sourcing boundary conditions\" with Commodity Heads before launching tenders. Operate autonomously within these boundaries, escalating only exceptions, high-value decisions, or strategic deviations.* **Single-Point Procurement Leadership:** Act as the dedicated, single face of Procurement within the Programme Multi-Functional Team (MFT). Own both the strategic direction and operational execution of procurement activities for the project.* **Asynchronous Milestone Governance:** Keep commodity teams informed through lean, milestone-based reviews (e.g., sourcing strategy approval and final contract award endorsement), minimizing meeting overhead while preserving corporate alignment. **Operational Bundling & Hands-On Delivery*** **Supplier Risk & Ramp-Up Monitoring:** Monitor early supplier development, tooling fabrication, and industrial readiness, proactively solving bottlenecks before components reach the assembly line. **Seamless Series Transition*** **Clean Package Maturity Transfer:** Prepare and package mature work packages, established contracts, and performance data for seamless integration into standard commodity management routines once the programme transitions to stable series production. **Desired skills and qualifications*** **Experience:** Robust track record in aerospace procurement, project management, or New Product Introduction (NPI) within fast-paced, high-autonomy environments.* **Autonomous Decision-Maker:** Proven ability to make sound commercial and technical judgments independently, balancing the urgent need for speed with disciplined risk management.* **Broad Commodity & Technical Literacy:** Generalist knowledge across multiple aerospace commodities (e.g., structures, systems, avionics, cabin/standard hardware) to credibly evaluate diverse suppliers without relying on daily specialist support.* **Pragmatic & Agile Mindset:** High bias for action and hands-on execution. Ability to navigate fluid engineering requirements and make pragmatic trade-offs to keep the programme on schedule.* **Stakeholder Trust & Diplomacy:** Strong reputation for integrity and transparency, enabling Commodity Heads to comfortably delegate sourcing authority to you without feeling out of the loop. Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customized development solutions. Take your career to a new level and apply online now! #MYCYMThis 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr