Procurement Business Lead - Digital & Innovation (m/f) (H/F)

AIRBUS SAS; Toulouse; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit sharing

Staff council

Upskilling opportunities

Health insurance

Job summary

Airbus Commercial Aircraft in Toulouse seeks a Digital & AI Transformation Lead to shape the PM digital roadmap, drive AI integration, and energize a 200+ procurement network across the enterprise.

You will oversee high-visibility projects, align IT capabilities with supply chain goals, and mentor a team in a fast-paced, aerospace environment, including managing a temporary worker and working students.

Qualifications

• Experience leading AI-driven transformations in large organisations.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes and digital tools.
• Excellent stakeholder management and change leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and deploy the PM Digital and Data strategy.
• Drive the structured adoption and dissemination of AI and analytics tools.
• Build and animate a digital, data, and AI network across 200+ PM professionals.
• Lead key digital initiatives from inception to rollout with cross-functional teams.
• Direct management of a temporary worker and supervision of working students.

Skills

Digital Transformation

AI

Procurement

Leadership

Job description

Job Description:

Airbus Commercial Aircraft is looking for Digital & AI Transformation Lead (f/m) to join our Materials & Parts Procurement (PM) department based in Toulouse, France.

Are you passionate about the power of digital innovation and artificial intelligence to transform modern procurement? Do you thrive on bridging business strategy with tech execution to empower buyers and elevate organizational capabilities?

In our transverse Materials & Parts Procurement (PM) organization, you will serve as our focal point for digital transformation. Reporting to the Senior Manager, you will shape our digital roadmap, drive AI integration, lead high-visibility projects, and energize a broad network of procurement professionals across the enterprise.

Why Join Us?

You won't just be managing tools; you will be reshaping how 200+ procurement professionals work every day in a high-tech aerospace environment. You will enjoy high visibility, high autonomy, and a supportive, forward-thinking team.

Your working environment:

Global capital of aeronautics and European capital for space research, Toulouse is a dynamic city in the southwest of France served by an international airport. Ideally located between the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean and close to the Pyrenees mountains, it offers plenty of options for outdoor activities!

How we care for you:

• Financial rewards: Attractive salary, agreements on success and profit sharing schemes, employee savings plan abounded by Airbus and employee stock purchase plan on a voluntary basis.
• Work / Life Balance: Extra days-off for special occasions, holiday transfer option, a Staff council offering many social, cultural and sport activities and other services.
• Wellbeing / Health: Complementary health insurance coverage (disability, invalidity, death). Depending on the site: health services center, concierge services, gym, carpooling application.
• Individual development: Great upskilling opportunities and development prospects with unlimited access to +10.000 e-learning courses to develop your employability, certifications, expert career path, accelerated development programmes, national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

• Strategic Direction & Portfolio Management: Define and deploy the PM Digital and Data strategy, aligning IT capabilities with overarching supply chain goals. Manage, prioritize, and consolidate the budget for the digital project portfolio executed by delivery teams.
• AI Integration: Drive the structured adoption and dissemination of AI and advanced analytics tools, unlocking new insights and efficiency for procurement.
• Community Enablement & Network Animation: Build, nurture, and animate a digital, data, and AI network across our 200+ person PM community. Capture buyer needs, translate operational challenges into digital requirements, foster knowledge sharing, and champion buyer-empowerment tools.
• Core Project Delivery & E2E Digitalization: Lead key digital initiatives and flagship programs (such as digitalising our contractual enablement processes) from inception to rollout. Partner closely with digital teams, data engineers, and procurement experts.
• People Management: Direct management of a temporary worker and the regular management of working students.