As Industrial Supply Chain Director (M/F) on a cutting-edge Bordeaux Campus, you will lead all logistics flows from procurement to customer delivery, ensuring compliance, quality, and punctuality in a regulated and international environment. You will pilot the SiOP process to harmonize industrial site loads and capacities, optimize stock levels, and play a key role in industrial performance and customer satisfaction. You will also manage a global Supply Chain team of 200 people across France, Singapore, and Canada.

Must Have

• Pilot all logistics flows from procurement to customer delivery, ensuring compliance, quality, and punctuality.
• Pilot the SiOP process to harmonize industrial site loads and capacities while meeting customer needs and ensuring optimal stock levels.
• Play a key role in industrial performance and customer satisfaction, ensuring supply chain robustness and resilience.
• Lead a Global Supply Chain team of 200 people based in France, Singapore, and Canada.
• Define and implement the Supply Chain strategy in line with industrial strategy and client requirements.
• Manage all Supply Chain functions: logistics, procurement, supplier relations, planning, and scheduling.
• Contribute to the strategic development of Supply Chain professions (resources, means, investments, processes).
• Deploy and improve performance indicators: OTD, supplier SOTD, stock levels, security coverage.
• Manage logistics budgets and control costs.
• Manage logistics capacity investments (stockers, racks, internal/external storage space).
• Optimize external supply chain costs: external warehouse and transport.
• Manage export control and customs with specialized teams.
• Ensure material availability to prevent production line stoppages through effective standards and routines.
• Contribute to improving supplier performance by defining and optimizing flows and management methods.
• Pilot the S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) process to align production with commercial forecasts and industrial capacities.
• Plan all needs, including spare parts and repairs, in the Procurement and Production Plan using ERP.
• Coordinate flows between different industrial sites and partners.
• Ensure the use of best planning and execution practices.
• Supervise and lead Supply Chain teams (planning, logistics, procurement, transport, customs, methods).
• Develop technical and managerial skills of employees.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence and adherence to aeronautical standards.
• Manage interfaces of the entity (other Thales sites, end clients, purchasing, sales administration).
• Implement high-performance digital tools.
• Lead continuous improvement projects (Lean Manufacturing, Insight, Kanban, VSM).
• Integrate sustainability challenges: reducing logistics carbon footprint, optimizing packaging, responsible transport.
• Ensure stock levels match APRU needs and contribute to continuous improvement to reduce work-in-progress, stocks, and lead-time.
• Significant experience (around fifteen years) in Supply Chain professions.
• Mastery of Production processes, Repair processes, industrial management control, and the MYB process.
• Knowledge of stock management and flow management methodologies, and experience implementing continuous improvement and steering tools.
• Ability to unite, influence, and work in an international environment.
• Appetite for ERPs.

Good to Have

• APICS Basic or CPIM certification

Perks & Benefits

• Success driven by technological excellence, experience, and shared ambition
• Attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development: training courses, internal academies and communities
• Inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Build a future of trust together

Thales is a global leader in high technologies specializing in three sectors: Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition
• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skills development: training courses, internal academies, and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• A recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

On a cutting-edge Bordeaux Campus, between ocean and vineyards, we design and develop systems, equipment, and services to ensure the success of our clients' airborne missions.

As Industrial Supply Chain Director (M/F), you will be in strong interaction with the CCI Directorate, Quality, Purchasing, SPMs, DIGIS/ERP, and your main missions are as follows:

• Pilot all logistics flows, from procurement to customer delivery, ensuring compliance, quality, and punctuality of deliveries in a regulated and international environment.
• Pilot the SiOP (Sales & Inventory Operation Planning) process to harmonize the loads and capacities of industrial sites while meeting customer needs and ensuring an optimal stock level.
• Play a key role in industrial performance and customer satisfaction while ensuring the robustness and resilience of the supply chain.
• Lead a Global Supply Chain team of 200 people based in France, Singapore, and Canada.

1. Strategy and global steering:

• Define and implement the Supply Chain strategy in coherence with the industrial strategy and customer requirements.
• Manage all Supply Chain professions: logistics, procurement and supplier relations, planning and scheduling, with the help of business network leaders and site Supply Chain managers.
• Contribute to the strategic development of Supply Chain professions (resources, means & investments, processes and practices…)
• Deploy and improve performance indicators with the teams: OTD and customer delays, supplier SOTD, stock level and security coverage...
• Manage logistics budgets and ensure cost control.
• Manage logistics capacity investments (stocker, rack, internal Thales or external factory storage space)
• Optimize external supply chain costs: external warehouse and transport
• Management of export control and customs with specialized teams

2. Procurement and supplier management

• Ensure material availability to prevent any production line stoppage through the implementation of high-performing standards and business routines.
• Contribute to improving supplier performance by defining and optimizing flows and management methods.

3. Planning and industrial coordination

• Pilot the S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) process to align production with commercial forecasts and industrial capacities.
• Plan all needs, including spare parts and repairs, in the Procurement and Production Plan, relying on the ERP.
• Coordinate flows between different industrial sites and partners.
• Ensure the use of best planning and execution practices

4. Team management and development

• Supervise and lead Supply Chain teams (planning, logistics, procurement, transport, customs, methods).
• Develop the technical and managerial skills of employees.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence and adherence to aeronautical standards.
• Manage the interfaces of its entity (other Thales sites, end customers, purchasing, Sales Administration activity…).

5. Transformation and innovation

• Implement high-performance digital tools.
• Lead continuous improvement projects (Lean Manufacturing, Insight, Kanban, VSM).
• Integrate sustainability challenges: reducing logistics carbon footprint, optimizing packaging, responsible transport.
• Ensure the adequacy of stock levels with APRU needs and contribute to the continuous improvement of the function to reduce work-in-progress, stocks, and lead-time in coherence with customer requirements

Your profile

• Do you have significant experience of about fifteen years in Supply Chain professions?
• Are Production processes, Repair processes, industrial management control, and the MYB process subjects you master?
• Do you know stock management and flow management methodologies and have you already implemented continuous improvement and steering tools?
• Are the ability to unite, influence, and work in an international environment recognized as assets?
• Do you have an appetite for ERPs and, ideally, have you obtained the APICS Basic or CPIM?

Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!

The position may require access to information related to national defense secrecy; the selected person will undergo a security clearance procedure, in accordance with the provisions of articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 9, 2021.