Project and Business Improvement Management for Aerostructures Procurement

Airbus; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Modern office near public transport

Diverse career opportunities

Job summary

Airbus Portugal SA is seeking a professional to join the Aerostructures Procurement Strategy team. The role centers on managing transversal projects, compliance, and business improvements with an early emphasis on strategic sustainability initiatives within Substances Management.

You will establish detailed planning, budgets, and capacity, coordinate initiatives, and drive project execution with cross-functional teams. A hybrid work model and a modern office share the day-to-day experience.

Qualifications

• Diploma/bachelor in business administration or engineering with several years of experience in consulting or project management.
• Experience leading projects and working with cross-functional teams.
• Fluent English and ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels.

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.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Analytical skills

Learning agility

Team collaboration

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration or engineering

Tools

G Suite

Job description

Job Description

Working with the Airbus Aerostructures Procurement Strategy team, you will manage transverse project, compliance or business improvement activities and provide general daily support to the team. The role will initially focus on strategic sustainability initiatives, specifically within Substances Management.

Responsibilities - your mission

• 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.

Project planning

• Identify, agree and coordinate the project interfaces
• Prepare a project profile and agree service levels with the ordering departments / customers
• Prepare and support detailed project workload estimations and project descriptions
• Plan and control the order management of project suppliers
• Prepare a detailed budget planning for projects

Concept development for procedures / processes / industrialization

• Follow strategy topics and project related communication and provide guidance to colleagues
• Ensure a global agreement on process/procedural requirements with overall project interfaces
• Perform economic efficiency evaluations of projects

Project implementation

• Ensure the integration planning of projects into existing processes/procedures/current production
• Represent the project vis‑à‑vis the next higher project reporting level
• Represent the project vis‑à‑vis project interfaces

Project reporting / controlling

• Handle data collection, consolidation, analysis and reporting
• Present and document the subproject status for quality, costs and deadlines
• Identify the subproject risks and introduce measures for risk minimization
• Establish and moderate work progress meetings
• Track the project by providing regular status updates and presenting results to key stakeholders

Project management

• Coordinate the subproject

Project completion

• Perform the technical and economic handover of the project with project documentation to the superordinate project reporting level

Provide advice

• Advice on project interfaces concerning specific global interrelations of processes, procedures or production

Agreement and mutual agreement with cross-functional internal and external, partly international interfaces on different hierarchical levels and with partly different interests

Within the scope of a subproject, problem solutions, services or serialization of procedures, processes or workflows including project documentation

Requirements - our ideal candidate will have

• A diploma/bachelor degree in business administration, or engineering; several years of professional experience in consulting, project management or comparable qualification
• Good to have: at least 3 years of relevant professional experience, preferably in Supply Chain, Manufacturing or related fields
• Experience in leading projects
• High resilience and assertiveness
• High Team & communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and high learning agility
• Proactive, open-minded attitude with a keen interest in Sustainability
• Negotiation-level fluency in English
• Experience in G Suite

Benefits - What’s In It For You

• Diverse career opportunities within Airbus European core countries or in other regions around the world.
• A hybrid working model, allowing you to combine onsite and offsite work.
• A modern office, well connected to public transportation.
• A motivated and fun crew to grow and build and shape the GBS together.
• An intense and exciting onboarding experience.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company

Airbus Portugal SA

Employment Type

Permanent

Experience Level

Professional

Job Family

Programme & Project Management

Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to [e-mail] .