Procurement Country Referent for Spain

Location: Madrid Tres Cantos, Spain

A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures. Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure & Defend, Observe & Protect, Explore, Travel & Navigate.

Thales in Spain is a leader in technological solutions applied to Defence, Aeronautics, Security, Transportation and Space and, furthermore, is a global centre for excellence in Space, Security of Critical Infrastructures and Transportation. With a turnover of €320 million and a staff of 1,200, it exports approximately 40% of its total production principally to the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.

We are looking for a Country Referent for procurement. Within the Procurement organisation at Thales Alenia Space, this person is responsible for managing all the needs for purchasing at TAS in Spain and is the local referent for the procurement team members. She/he is the primary Procurement interface for TAS in Spain.

Furthermore, he/she is Bid/Project/Product Procurement manager (PPM) senior team leader for complex systems (complete systems, payloads, instruments ), interfacing with the bids and projects teams and coordinating teams of buyers, which might be located in other locations, to cover the corresponding purchasing needs.

The team of procurement specialists located at TAS in Spain is composed of Category Buyers, Bids/Projects/Product Procurement managers, Supply Performance managers, Execution Performance Managers (= Subcontractor Managers) and Process and tools experts.

She / he is member of the international team of Thales Alenia Space Procurement Managers and is member of the Operational Committee of TAS in Spain.

**What we offer**

The PPM Senior Team Leader reports to the Head of / Director of Procurement BL and to the VP/Director of Regional Procurement.

Key Figures:

- The turnover of the Bids, Projects or Products of his BL/Region he/she works for
- The amount of procurement
- The saving, coming from the suppliers, on the costs of the solutions designed

The PPM Team Leader main mission is to develop and promote Thales procurement competitiveness internally as well as externally (customer, consortia, etc...). His main tasks are:

- To manage a Team of PPMs based in his/her region
- To setup a procurement team that will provide competitiveness to the region business:

- by involving procurement in the early definition phase of solutions / product so that they are able to challenge the needs / requirements
- by bringing added value from suppliers into the solutions
- by securing delivery from the suppliers in terms of quality and on time delivery
- To coordinate with the Segment and the Region organizations on:

- The procurement strategies of categories that impact the BL business
- The resources needed to work the procurement work packages
- The sourcing decisions
- In coordinaton with Supplier Performance and Process & tools teams, to standardize practices and tools over the group procurement
- To monitor the Procurements activities on bids/projects/products and to track competitiveness performance and risks/opportunities on procurement on his/her perimeter
- To contribute to the acquisition MYB of the GBU, by providing the data related to his/her perimeter
- To ensure compliance with the customers contractual requirements and compliance with Thales procurement policy and with the “Manage Acquisition” process of Chorus 2.

In your job you will need to be able to:

- Negotiate in English and Spanish (written and spoken) in complex environments (if you are not fluent in English or Spanish, you should be willing and able to learn it in a period of 6 months.)
- Influence and work in close coordination with high number of local and international stakeholders
- Work successfully in multicultural environment and lead a diverse teams
- Feel at ease in a changing environment
- Be proactive, selfstarting, and anticipate
- Work successfully in a matrix organisation
- Understand technical aspects
- Keep a high level of ethics
- Perform operational hands-on work such as request for quotations, tender evaluation boards, contract negotiations, procurement management plans and in general contribute to bids and projects and general procurement acquisitions.

Desirable:

- Experience in Space field
- Experience with purchase processes, including contractual, supply chain and purchase knowledge
- International background and experience in other European countries
- Knowledge of international, especially European, and Spanish Space companies and organisations, both in traditional and new space markets

**What do we offer?**
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