Program Manager - Global 8000

Job Description:

The incumbent is responsible for the delivery in Time, Cost, Quality, and Performance (TCQP) of the central fuselage of the Global 8000 program within Airbus Atlantique Canada.

Missions

• Improve customer satisfaction (TCQ) by ensuring the continuity of the production flow across the entire value chain, initiating and leading crisis management activities when necessary,
• Manage budgets and activities impacting annual profit and loss (P&L) and program cash flows to achieve financial (OP) and delivery targets,
• Initiate and lead the competitiveness plan to meet multi-year profitability targets
• Ensure the robustness of program configuration management while driving product evolution through change management (MOD),
• Ensure the implementation of potential modifications or new developments and their NRC/RC impacts without impact on OTD and OQD.
• Contribute to the development of sourcing strategies (Make to Buy, Buy to Buy) and the industrial strategy.
• Conduct risk management activities, in particular comprehensive identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting of risks.

Responsibilities

• Achieve satisfaction for our customer Bombardier by continuously improving product quality, delivering the Global 8000 central fuselage on Time, in Quality and at Cost, with management through our Quality-Gates.
• Initiate, lead when necessary, and close crisis management activities required to ensure smooth operations along the value chain from elementary parts to fuselage sections.
• Work in collaboration with all functions (Operations, Quality, Engineering, Purchasing, etc.) at the Mirabel, Rochefort, Tunisia, and Saint-Nazaire sites, ensuring synchronization and cascading of program management information (e.g., customer definition, end-to-end integrated business planning, aircraft configuration, budgets, competitiveness plan) to stakeholders.
• Drive production macro-planning based on customer demand and the rate ramp-up strategy through the implementation of the Master Planning Schedule (MPS)
• Manage the overall customer relationship through periodic governance including contract management and associated negotiations (price evolution, option management, and change requests)
• Manage work package configuration including internal and external change requests, their implementation, and associated financial impacts
• Manage risks and opportunities (R&O)
• Manage the complete budget envelope of OPEX and CAPEX investments for the programs
• Manage profit and loss (P&L) & the competitiveness plan in accordance with cascaded financial targets, including DtC (Design to Cost) activities
• Manage major transformation projects in MFT mode to ensure the achievement of TCQP objectives (inventories, Transfer of Work, line structure, etc.)

REQUIRED PROFILE

• Holder of a Bachelor's degree in engineering, project management, or a related discipline
• Experience > 10 years in various positions in the aerospace industry (ideally in multiple functions at an OEM)
• Project experience; 5 years in program management
• Good understanding and practice of financial management (OPEX, CAPEX)
• Fluent French & English
• Dynamic, proactive, team player
• Possessing a strategic vision
• Able to inspire engagement and unite around a vision and strategic objectives

This job requires awareness of potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity as the foundation for the success, reputation, and sustainable growth of the company.