Supply Chain & Quality Manager (m/w/d) – Cabin Environment

About the role

Airbus is looking for a Supply Chain & Quality Manager (m/w/d) in Hamburg to help secure reliable supplier performance across the cross-program cabin environment. The role combines operational supply management, supplier quality, industrial risk management and continuous improvement across the supply chain. It is a full-time position of 35 hours per week.

Key responsibilities

• Monitor supplier delivery, quality and cost performance using defined KPIs and initiate immediate containment actions where needed.
• Coordinate recovery plans with suppliers when delivery or quality declines, following them through to sustainable resolution.
• Support the industrial qualification of products and suppliers in line with supplier requirements, airworthiness expectations and industrial standards.
• Plan and run supplier audits, assessments and capability reviews across the aerospace supply chain.
• Develop supplier capacity and capability through continuous improvement approaches such as APQP, Lean methods and joint improvement projects.
• Monitor New Product Introduction and transfers of work to keep supply chain performance and quality consistent.
• Identify, assess and proactively manage industrial risks with internal stakeholders, suppliers and other parties.
• Manage interfaces with programme teams, manufacturing stakeholders and final assembly operations, including meetings, performance discussions and improvement actions.

Required profile

• Technically or commercially oriented professional with initial experience in Supply Chain, Logistics or Supply Chain Quality.
• Completed technical, engineering, business or comparable qualification, ideally with a focus on Aerospace, Supply Chain, Logistics, quality or a related discipline.
• Initial professional experience in Supplier Management, Quality Management, Supply Chain or a comparable operational environment.
• Practical understanding of risk management and industrial quality processes, preferably including TQM and Total Quality Management principles.
• Confident German and business-fluent English; French is an advantage.
• Willingness to travel worldwide up to about once per month, depending on business needs.

Required skills

• Knowledge of quality management methods such as APQP, Control Plans, PFMEA, 8D or 9S and value stream mapping is desirable.
• Ability to analyse complex interdependencies, identify root causes and turn findings into recovery or improvement actions.
• Working knowledge of Windows, SAP/R3 and Google Workspace, and willingness to use relevant systems for reporting and coordination.

What we offer

• Salary of 66,060 to 80,520 EUR per year.
• Structured onboarding and a clear introduction to responsibilities, processes and stakeholders.
• Access to the corporate employee benefits programme.
• Exposure to supplier management, supply chain quality and quality assurance in a technically demanding environment, with opportunities to work on supplier development, risk mitigation and continuous improvement.