Job Description

On behalf of one of its clients, in the aeronautics industry, the French Chamber of Commerce is looking for a MRO Procurement Leader & Continuous improvement management.

You will be accountable for a strategic supplier in Singapore. You are in charge of monitoring the progress of engine parts sent for repair at this supplier site and making sure supplier sends back repaired parts within contractual time. Your objective will be to achieve a 95% on-time-delivery. You will interact with your supplier on a daily basis (phone & emails). You interact with your internal customers on a daily basis (per phone & emails) to make sure to match their needs. Your objective is to make sure that repaired parts come back within their needed dates in order to fit the engine re-assembly schedules.

MRO Procurement Leader is a new function launched in 2022, you shall be open to some adjustment in your job descriptions over time based on the return on experience. You will be required to train newly hired MRO Procurement Leaders. You will share your expertise and best practices with the rest of MRO Procurement teams in Europe, Americas and Singapore. You will also lead the continuous improvement activities on behalf of the whole function. Due to the volume of your portfolio, you will manage 2 MRO Procurement Executives who will assist you in order processing. You will be acting as the backup of the MRO Procurement Team Manager Asia during his absence. You will also be in charge of automatization activities to improve the efficiency of the work of the MRO Procurement team in Asia. You shall possess excellent skills in Powerbi, VBA and other relevant programming languages.

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• Centralizing all repair orders initiated by local supply chains and detecting any transportation issues

• Closely tracking on-time inspection results

• Participate to daily team QRQC and lead actions taken during QRQC (taking place twice a week in the evening Singapore time)

• Making sure suppliers commit to end repair dates and tracking that suppliers are well on target to deliver parts against their commitments

• Knowing supplier purchasing agreement specifics and challenge suppliers to honor their contractual obligations

• Notify your internal customer if some delivery commitments do not match with the engine re-assembly start date and work out on a solution

• Notify local supply chain if there is a capacity constraint at a supplier site and providing prioritization to supplier(s)

• Maintain a close relationship with your supplier contacts at all organization levels

• Customer orientation to match local supply chain needs

• Detect any deviation in supplier logistics performance and propose improvement actions, coordinate with your supplier team contacts to implement actions with supplier or internally (buyer, supplier performance manager, supplier quality engineer, supplier engineering)

• Lead transversally 2 MRO Procurement Executives

• Develop PowerBi tool and automatization tools to accelerate work of the Asia MRO procurement team and share the tools with the American based and France based MRO Procurement teams

• Travel to major suppliers in your portfolio (20% of your time)

• 1 month training in our headquarter during your job orientation

• Business trips to HQ twice per year

• Technical skills on civil aircraft engine & engine parts architecture

• Fluent in French or show willingness to become fluent in French with intensive training courses in a short amount of time is required in order to communicate with internal customers who do not understand English.

• Reactivity & customer orientation

• Strong working experience with suppliers

• Assertiveness with regards to your supplier

• With International work experience (multicultural context) will be an added advantage

• CPIM Part 1 certification (is a plus)

• Excellent skills in PowerBi & VBA & programming IT languages

• Ability to lead a team - transversal management skills

• Proactivity once a problem is detected

• Master\xe2\x80\x99s Degree is preferable

• More than 4 years of relevant experience

French Chamber Singapore