Sourcing Manager

Job Description:

We are now looking for a Sourcing Manager for Airbus GBS Portugal!

Responsibilities - your mission

As the Sourcing Manager within our Source to Pay pillar in the GBS, you will lead a team of professionals while acting as a key driver of performance, service excellence and stakeholder engagement in a complex Center of Competence environment. Your role is to ensure operational delivery while managing senior stakeholders across Airbus functions and countries, enabling global alignment and process optimization.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Leadership & People Management

• Lead and develop a high-performing procurement team, fostering engagement, accountability, and collaboration.

• Support team leaders in people management topics including performance evaluations, career development, and upskilling.

• Build a strong culture of service excellence, agility, and empowerment.

2. Operations & Performance

• Oversee the execution of procurement processes across commodities and ensure alignment with global standards and targets.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, process harmonization, and digital transformation within procurement.

• Ensure rigorous adherence to Finance, Procurement, and Compliance policies and standards.

3. Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the primary interface with senior procurement leaders and cross-functional stakeholders in core Airbus countries.

• Manage challenging stakeholder relationships with diplomacy and assertiveness, ensuring satisfaction and alignment of expectations.

• Collaborate with Commodity Managers and Procurement Heads to ensure seamless integration between GBS teams and local operations.

4. Strategy & Governance

• Contribute to the definition and deployment of procurement strategies within the S2P scope.

• Monitor workforce planning and support the evolution of the GBS Sourcing model as a center of competence.

• Support change management activities and communication related to procurement initiatives.

5. Project & Transformation Leadership

• Sponsor and lead cross-functional projects, including system evolutions and process reengineering.

• Actively contribute to organizational transformation programs related to procurement and business services.

Requirements - our ideal candidate will have

• 10+ years of experience in Procurement, preferably in a complex, multinational industrial or commercial environment.

• 5+ years in leadership roles, including managing teams and working in matrix or international structures.

• Strong experience managing senior stakeholders across countries, ideally in a shared services or center of competence model.

• Demonstrated ability to influence, drive change, and resolve conflicts.

• Strong project management and decision-making capabilities.

• Proven digital acumen.

• Fluent in English.

Benefits - what’s in it for you

• Diverse career opportunities within Airbus European core countries or in other regions around the world.

• A hybrid working model, allowing you to combine onsite and offsite work. 

• A modern office well connected to public transportation.

• A motivated and fun crew to grow and build and shape the GBS together.

• An intense and exciting onboarding experience.

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

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