Category Manager Propulsion

Your role and your team:

You will report to the Head of Procurement Propulsion and work closely and collaboratively with our Supply chain, Logistics, Production, Engineering Quality, Supplier Quality, Program Management and Commercial Department. You will be responsible for the procurement activities for propulsion.

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 ecosystem.

 Your Day to Day:

• Manage the supply chain for the propulsion aircraft commodity
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• Create and evolve the Procurement Strategy & Policies aligned to the overarching company strategy
• Sourcing Process - Market Assessment & Identify Potential Suppliers/Supplier
• Selection & Contracting (e.g. Call for Tender, supplier selection processes)
• Close co-operation with the Production, Finances, Quality, Engineering, Program teams during development projects
• Orchestrating a global network of aircraft suppliers to initiate best practice exchange and a continuous flow of innovations outside-in
• Secure the plant delivery to safety, time, cost and quality targets with support of Supply Chain Operations counterpart
• Lead big scale supplier sourcing deployment projects with end to end responsibility from start of analysis to ramp up at stable performance
• High response & real-time work behavior
• Bias for action and drive to push things to completion

Your Profile: 

• Minimum qualifications/Education: mechanical engineering and/or business administration degree
• Procurement commodity position in a corporate environment with experience ideally gained in aerospace (c.5-8 years experience)  including “End to End” responsibility of implementing the purchase strategy with a minimum of two strategic projects
• Eager to learn and adopt his/her style to a start-up environment; puts the team first; robust and passionate to follow given objectives; uses failure as learning experience; excellent communicator; ability to facilitate workshops.
• Demonstrate cross-functional leadership within the company
• Excellent analysis and evaluation skills with a drive to challenge the status quo
• A strategic thinker with sound technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment and strong operational focus
• Must be a proactive, open, and direct communicator who engages comfortably and credibly with all levels of the organisation
• High personal influencing and negotiation skills. Strong leadership maturity and ability to lead through others.
• Be flexible to change and adapt as required by your team, function or business.
• Fluent English is required, any other language is an advantage  

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