Supplier Development Director (M/F)
Job Description
- 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.
- 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!
