Key Logistics Manager

Airbus; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 150,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Airbus Helicopters Arabia for Aircraft Maintenance seeks a professional to manage physical logistics and ensure KPI-driven performance. You will oversee LP contracts, apply Airbus processes, and drive improvements while ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and cost control across logistics operations.

A key focus is coordinating internal stakeholders and suppliers to deliver timely, compliant logistics services.

Qualifications

• Responsibilities include managing physical logistics activities and ensuring KPI-driven performance.
• Oversee LP contract compliance, change requests, and supplier negotiations.
• Ensure regulatory, safety, and environmental compliance within logistics operations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure physical logistics management performance & improvement control.
• Implement and control KPIs (performance, cost, quality, environment).
• Ensure application of Airbus Logistics solutions, processes, rules & policies in physical logistics activities.
• Drive issue solving with a quick & simple alert/escalation process.
• Propose and drive local, not disruptive and short term Improvement Initiatives, share experience & practices.
• Contribute to End To End Logistics Solutions optimization and Surface optimization.
• Secure that the standard distributions means are in the right quality and quantity.
• Contribute to infrastructure evolution and surface management.
• Assess logistics impacts in case of short and middle term planning changes.
• Ensure right contract application by the provider and by Airbus, budget respect and savings.
• Create, challenge, validate operational scope change requests, work specifications, ad-hoc service requests and Claims.
• Contribute to scope change request within a project.
• Perform technical negotiation in units price, volumes & forecasts.
• Ensure & facilitate harmonized and agile contract governance to deliver services on time, on quality & on cost.
• Developing & deploying way of working and trainings to support operations in the contract management.
• Calculate and monitor logistics budget in interface with Finance.
• Supports procurement and operations on contract mechanism implementation and monitoring.
• Implement and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with internal stakeholders.
• Anticipate, understand/challenge internal stakeholders’ requests and ensure implementation of changes.
• Ensure risk management with internal stakeholders and Logistics Provider, perform root cause analysis and manage mitigation plans.
• Is accountable for all topics related to Airworthiness Authorities, Quality, Environment, Health & Safety, and Dangerous goods with regards of the logistics business execution.
• Contribute to corporate audits and industrial maturity.
• Plan, prepare, run audits in collaboration with quality and implement actions to close findings.

Job description

Job Description:

Manages the physical logistics activities :

• Ensure physical logistics management performance & improvement control.
• Implement and control KPIs (performance, cost, quality, environment).
• Ensure application of Airbus Logistics solutions, processes, rules & policies in physical logistics activities.
• Drive issue solving with a quick & simple alert/escalation process.
• Propose and drive local, not disruptive and short term Improvement Initiatives, share experience & practices via Logistics service managers network.
• Contribute to End To End Logistics Solutions optimization and Surface optimization.
• Secure that the standard distributions means are in the right quality and quantity.
• Contribute to infrastructure evolution and surface management.
• Assess logistics impacts in case of short and middle term planning changes.

Manages the Logistics Provider (LP) contract compliance and subcontractor activities:

• Ensure right contract application by the provider and by Airbus, budget respect and savings.
• Create, challenge, validate operational scope change requests, work specifications, ad-hoc service requests and Claims.
• Contribute to scope change request within a project.
• Perform technical negotiation in units price, volumes & forecasts.

Central contract management specificities:

• Ensure & facilitate harmonized and agile contract governance to deliver services on time, on quality & on cost.
• Developing & deploying way of working and trainings to support operations in the contract management.
• Calculate and monitor logistics budget in interface with Finance.
• Supports procurement and operations on contract mechanism implementation and monitoring.

Ensure the alignment of logistics operations within the internal stakeholders processes and requirements to secure a logistics performance:

• Implement and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with internal stakeholders.
• Anticipate, understand/challenge internal stakeholders’ requests and ensure implementation of changes.

Ensure risk management with internal stakeholders and Logistics Provider, perform root cause analysis and manage mitigation plans.

Manages compliance to regulatory and safety obligations:

• Is accountable for all topics related to Airworthiness Authorities, Quality, Environment, Health & Safety, and Dangerous goods with regards of the logistics business execution.
• Contribute to corporate audits and industrial maturity.
• Plan, prepare, run audits in collaboration with quality and implement actions to close findings.

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 Helicopters Arabia for Aircraft Maintenance Employment Type: Fixed term ------- Experience Level: Professional Job Family: Logistics

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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. Airbus pioneers sustainable aerospace for a safe and united world. The Company constantly innovates to provide efficient and technologically-advanced solutions in aerospace, defence, and connected services. In commercial aircraft, Airbus offers modern and fuel-efficient airliners and associated services. Airbus is also a European leader in defence and security and one of the world's leading space businesses. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions and services worldwide.