Head of Supply Chain Operations - Munich, Deutschland - Lilium

Lilium

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Munich, Deutschland

vor 1 Woche

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

A career at Lilium is for those who want to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology and customer experience.

As part of a team, you will tackle challenges and deliver something that has never been done before.

By joining Lilium you will have the opportunity to work with a world-class entrepreneurial team of more than 800 people who are as passionate about changing the world as you are.

You will always act with safety and integrity in mind and embody our core behaviors of efficient and positive collaboration, ownership of time, continuous improvements and, ultimately delivering results.

We thrive on diversity and creating an inclusive culture, with more than 50 nationalities currently working hard to bring our vision of a sustainable world to life.

Your role and your team:

You will report directly to the head of Procurement and work closely with our Procurement, Engineering and Production teams.

You will have the unique opportunity to shape the Supply Chain Operations Organization and establish robust processes and digital solutions that will ensure superior Supply Chain performance of Lilium in the fast-growing Urban Air Mobility market.

Procurement at Lilium means to work within a team of highly skilled experts managing the creation and establishment of a professional aircraft and non-aircraft supply base with the highest quality product available in time - while meeting technical corporate standards based on a complete new worldwide market eco system.

Your Day to Day:

Recruit, support, train & lead a lean organisation of Supply Chain Operations managers and specialists.
Participate to the definition of Procurement strategies and supplier Selection, based upon Competitiveness, Aerospace Qualifications and good performance records
Define Strategies, Policies, Processes and Digital Solutions to secure the performance for all the suppliers of Aircraft items. Participate to the Procurement Multifunctional teams
Ensure compliance to the international regulations, and to the Customs processes
Contribute to define and deploy the Lilium ERP as well as cloudbased solutions for collaborations with Suppliers (including PO placement, OTD management, Invoicing, Non-Conformities declarations, Statistical Process Control, Advance Shipment Notice) Deploy
Define, implement and deploy Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) solutions where appropriate in order to optimize cash and warehouse space
Lead the team and get personally involved as required

- that will:

Drive or Support APQP (advance product quality planning) activities at Suppliers
Ensure the readiness of the supply base by launching Industrial Process Capability Assessments, as well as Capacity Contingency Planning audits at the relevant suppliers.
Look after Supplier Approvals to ensure that only approved suppliers are used, and purchase orders are only issued for qualified items. Seek deviation approval from Quality.
Place purchase orders to suppliers to meet the demand generated by the MRP
Ensure a proper Risk Management practice is implemented to avoid any disruption to the Supply of items.
Implement data collection at the Supplier and transparency on Quality and Productivity performance
Drive recovery actions at Suppliers in case of nonPerformance
Implement a control room with visual monitoring of the performance and risks in the Supply Chain
Ensure all internal root causes of Suppliers nonperformance (eg: demand patterns, technical specifications...) are identified swiftly and addressed in an efficient collaborative way.
Lead by example with uncompromising business ethics and respect for People
Ensure adequate participate of the Supply Chain Operation teams to the various Production forum where the voice of Supply Chain is needed

Your Profile:

Minimum qualifications / Education: Masters of Engineering and/or business administration degree
Minimum 10 years of experience in Supply Chain roles out of which 5 in in a similar position within global, high volume automotive or aerospace environments required
Proven experience leading "End to End" implementations of Supply Chain organizations, processes and systems
Pragmatic leader with sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment and strong operational mindset.
Good knowledge and practice of cloud based solutions for endtoend collaboration with Suppliers
Strong leadership maturity and ability to lead through others
Excellent communications skills to build and sustain credibly with all levels of the organisation
High sense for urgency with cando mindset and customer orientation
Eager to learn and adopt his style to a startup environment; puts the team first; robust and passionate to follow given objectives; uses failure as learning experience
Fluent English required, German or any other language desired

Life at Lilium:

The wellbeing of our employees is a high priority