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Employment type:
Full time
Experience required:
Intermediate
Salary
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About the company:
Using the 7-Seater Lilium Jet, an electric vertical take-off and landing jet, offering leading capacity, low noise and high performance, Lilium is building a transport network and service for people and goods. Working in partnership with world-leading aerospace, technology, and infrastructure partners, commercial operations are set to launch in 2024.
Lilium’s 700+ strong team includes over 400 aerospace engineers and a leadership responsible for delivering some of the most successful aircraft in aviation history. Founded in 2015, Lilium’s headquarters and manufacturing facilities are in Munich, Germany, with teams based across Europe and the U.S.
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:
Reporting to the Head of R&D Supply Chain Management you will manage supply chain operations for technical development demonstrators (TDD) and ensure material availability on time, on cost and on quality as we head towards start of production of our ground-breaking Lilium jet!
Leading a team of Supply Chain Experts and collaborating with various interfaces such as Engineering, Logistics, Production Planning & Control as well as suppliers, your primary objectives will be the set up a robust, agile and flexible supply chain enabling a speedy production and testing of technical development demonstrators.
You will implement a performance dashboard and review governance to identify and drive continuous improvement. As a backbone of the business, you will establish a supplier network, that provides short lead time deliveries in line with Lilium Programme priorities.
Your tasks:
- Steer business operations, prioritize according to business demands and ensure on time / on quality delivery
- Drive process efficiency by implementing continuous improvement together with process owners and interface functions
- Ensure balanced workforce planning by proper task assignment, anticipating and weighing the issues & demands that might appear
- Monitor key performance indicators and dive deep in case of performance deviations
- Resolve escalations and ad hoc issues and prevent errors sustainable applying practical problem solving
- Oversee training and qualification of your people to enable a poly competent and flexible team
- Hire & develop people professionally and match business with individual needs
Your profile:
- Highly motivated and engaged leader with deep technical and procedural Procurement expertise
- Minimum 5 years of experience in supply chain, ideally within automotive or aviation industry
- Proven record of successful operations management and enhancement
- Results oriented, comfortable working under pressure and to KPI’s
- Experience in setting up a reliable supplier network and supplier relationship management
- Ability to multi-task, organize and prioritize assignments and projects
- High intercultural competencies as well as conceptional, analytical and communication skills
- Comfortable working in dynamic, fast-moving and transformative environments
- IT Skills: Microsoft Office, ERP
- Language Skills: English minimum C1, German minimum B2
Want to know more? Then view our 'Why join Lilium' page!
Life at Lilium:
The wellbeing of our employees is a high priority. In our HQ we have many initiatives such as free healthy food and drinks, free in-house gym and health days. In remote offices we offer online opportunities to stay connected and develop yourself as well including our culture club, learning terminal, Employee Assistance Program and many more.
Lilium is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
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