Supplier Development Director (M/F)

Join us on the Vélizy campus to lead a high-stakes, international department with significant impact on business objectives and customer satisfaction. You will define a strategy to develop and improve the maturity of our suppliers for each program. Within the Purchasing Department, you will lead a team of managers to ensure suppliers achieve the expected level of productivity and efficiency in their operations.

Must Have

• Define supplier development strategy in line with segment strategies.
• Liaise with stakeholders to understand experiences, anticipate risks, and define action plans to prevent crises.
• Lead and manage resources, skills, and working groups during crises.
• Build and continuously develop a team of managers, fostering best practices and market technology adoption.
• Engineering degree in electronics, electricity, and/or mechanics.
• Confirmed experience in industrial engineering (technical vision, process engineering, quality, production, supply chain).
• Management experience with a team of over 10 people.
• Experience in an international environment with diverse cultures.
• Experience in contractual and supply relations with suppliers.

Perks & Benefits

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

Let's build a future of trust together

Thales is a global leader in high technologies specializing in three sectors: Defense & Security, Aerospace & 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 paths, internal academies, and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• A recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

Join us on the Vélizy campus, which hosts a wide variety of Thales activities: aerospace, defense, civil, etc. West of Paris, this site offers a work environment equipped with the latest technological innovations and provides services to reconcile professional and personal life.

Do you aspire to take on a high-stakes, international leadership role with significant impact on achieving the objectives of various activities/businesses and customer satisfaction?

Do you wish to invest yourself in defining a strategy aimed at developing and improving the development and maturity level of our suppliers for each program?

Within the Purchasing Department, you will take charge of leading a team of managers to develop suppliers so that they reach the expected level of productivity and efficiency in their operations. Your responsibilities will include:

• Defining the supplier development strategy, in agreement with segment strategies,
• Establishing links with stakeholders to understand their experiences and difficulties, anticipate potential risks, and determine action plans to avoid crises.
• Leading and managing resources and skills, as well as working groups during crises.
• Building a team of managers and continuously developing skills, encouraging the sharing of best practices and the adoption of the latest market technologies.

Your profile:

Engineering degree in electronics, electricity, and/or mechanics, you have confirmed experience in:

• Engineering in the industrial sector with a technical vision, process engineering, quality, production, or supply chain
• Management of a team of more than 10 people
• International environment with interaction with different nationalities and cultures.
• Contractual and supply relations with suppliers

Do you recognize yourself? Don't hesitate, apply!

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