Sr Manager - Business Intelligence & Process Control (Apr 2026)

Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc offers advanced solutions to meet the most complex U.S. defense, security, space, and intelligence requirements. Celebrating over 50 years in the US, we remain a trusted government partner, leveraging world-class satellite, laser communication, rotor and fixed wing solutions to help our national security, defense and space focused customers meet their missions.

Airbus U.S. looks to employ a commitment driven team, dedicated to enabling our customer's mission success. We are committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment and a welcoming and engaging staff. With competitive compensation and superior employee benefits, as well as a commitment to fostering individual career growth, Airbus U.S. is the place where top talent wants to work.

Position Summary

We are seeking a strategic and results-oriented Senior Manager Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Process Control. This role is responsible for driving operational excellence by bridging the gap between data-driven insights and process optimization. You will lead cross-functional teams to design, monitor, and govern global business processes, ensuring they are scalable, efficient, and aligned with corporate quality policies.

Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Leadership & Governance

• • Team Leadership: Lead, motivate, and develop the BI and Process Control teams; resolve internal conflicts and build a high-performing, unified unit.
  • Community Management: Organize and facilitate the Business Process Community to structure and improve process architecture, methods, and tools.
  • Executive Interface: Act as the primary link between the Business Process Community and Leadership-sharing the vision, raising awareness, and escalating critical issues.
  • Change Management: Lead end-to-end process deployment and facilitate change management from initial definition to final implementation.

2. Process Engineering & Optimization

• • Architecture Design: Define and improve the Airbus U.S. business process architecture to ensure transverse consistency and alignment with corporate goals.
  • Continuous Improvement: Design processes to optimize flow, reduce variability, and improve capability; identify root causes of deviations and implement corrective actions.
  • Validation & Documentation: Frequently evaluate existing processes and ensure rigorous documentation, testing, and validation of all new procedures.
  • Master Data Management: Lead the material and master data management strategy to ensure data integrity across systems.

3. Business Intelligence & Analytics

• • Data Impact: Deliver relevant, reliable, and timely data to stakeholders to drive faster, high-impact business decisions.
  • Risk & Monitoring: Develop process governance and monitoring methods; perform risk assessments and deliver comprehensive data analytics reports.
  • Transverse Consistency: Ensure all proposed process changes are consistent across different functions and align with the global quality policy. 

4. Operational Excellence & Compliance

• Execution Oversight: Monitor cross-functional operational processes to ensure accurate and timely execution.
• Issue Resolution: Rapidly resolve blocking points in business operations; manage off-nominal cases and speed up operations via SAP background transactions when required.
• Certification Support: Support AS9100/ISO certifications and other company-level transformation projects.
• Organizational Training: Provide business process training across the organization to ensure standardized adoption of tools and methods.

Additional Responsibilities: 10% 

• This position description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and the employee will also perform other tasks as assigned

Interfaces:

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