Hybrid Procurement Project Lead

Airbus; Coimbra; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbus Portugal SA is seeking a skilled Project Manager to lead complex initiatives within the Procurement MFT and PMO domains. You will establish detailed planning, budgets, and capacity balancing, while coordinating cross-functional teams and reporting to leadership.

The role requires resilience, strong communication, English fluency, and familiarity with MS Office, G Suite, and data tools. A hybrid work model and modern office are offered in Portugal.

Qualifications

• A diploma/bachelor degree in business administration, or engineering with several years of professional experience in consulting, project management or comparable qualification
• Experience in project management
• High resilience and assertiveness
• High team & communication skills
• Business fluent English
• Experience in MS Office and G Suite
• Knowledge in DataStudio and AppScript is a plus

Responsibilities

• Establishes and maintains detailed planning, workload estimations, project budget, and capacity balancing.
• Coordinates and monitors key project initiatives through to completion.
• Identifies and develops improvement ideas, new processes or digital solutions and assesses their impact in the project scope.
• Tracks project timelines and budgets, flags risks and opportunities, and implements basic mitigation steps.
• Prepares status updates on tasks and runs routine progress meetings.
• Drives project execution and handles handovers to leadership.
• Applies standard PMO frameworks to daily work and escalates critical risks and opportunities when necessary.
• Acts as the primary point of contact for the project to higher project management levels.
• Guides and supports cross-functional project team members and key stakeholders.
• Ensures project workflow alignment with organizational standards, manages documentation and communications, and delivers timely, accurate progress reports.
• Prepare agenda communication materials and facilitate detailed review sessions for multi-functional teams
• Provide active meeting support to capture key highlights, strategic decisions, and actionable tasks.
• Document, distribute, and properly archive official meeting minutes and relevant project presentations
• Coordinate recurring cross-functional governance meetings by preparing agendas and gathering inputs from department leads.
• Manage and update action registers to track project deliverables and monitor the completion of follow-up tasks.
• Drive the procurement plan budget exercise for each period OP/FC …(lead annual budget planning and quarterly financial forecasting processes by consolidating cross-functional requests)
• Acts as the spokesperson of the MFT leader in dedicated projects.
• Prepare executive summary to leadership on MFT initiatives
• Develops improvement ideas, new processes or digital solutions and evaluates their impact in the project scope.
• Design and manage KPI dashboards to visualize key procurement metrics
• Act as governance and data officer for an efficient management of data
• Drive the communication about team achievements and maintain Gsite up to date
• Responsible for Newcomer induction plan
• Drive and maintain comprehensive project portfolios, tracking documents, and internal management tools
• Implements Project Management Office practices and cascades organization guidelines into project’s processes
• Challenge and coach project owner on planning, workload estimations, budget, and R&Ops
• Support project/tasks owners to define and track project costs/deadlines, identifies risks and opportunities, and introduces mitigation measures.

Skills

High resilience and assertiveness

High team & communication skills

Business fluent English

Experience in project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Engineering

Tools

MS Office

G Suite

DataStudio

AppScript

Job description

Airbus Portugal SA is seeking a skilled Project Manager to lead complex initiatives within the Procurement MFT and PMO domains. You will establish detailed planning, budgets, and capacity balancing, while coordinating cross-functional teams and reporting to leadership.

The role requires resilience, strong communication, English fluency, and familiarity with MS Office, G Suite, and data tools. A hybrid work model and modern office are offered in Portugal.