Regional Supplier Development Director

Req ID:ID438654

Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide 

 

Drive Supplier Strategic Development in line with Alstom global processes

• • Select & on-board suppliers from a capability standpoint (quality, delivery, others)
  • Evaluate the capabilities of suppliers & qualifying them (off-cycle evaluations/audits and qualification)
  • Establish the short-list of priority suppliers for which development actions are needed to minimize Alstom exposure to risks due to the Supply Chain and align with global & domain organizations
  • Implement the development actions at suppliers to meet expectations: collaborative planning, capacity building, quality assurance improvement, training, maturity improvement, etc.
  • Leverage adequate global, regional and/or local resources (internal and/or external) necessary  to deliver the critical Supplier Development activities identified
  • Influence both suppliers’ & procurement strategy to improve the overall performance of the supplier base
  • Ensure consistency and efficiency of the activities delivered by the SSD organization (Supplier Quality Development, Supplier Delivery Development)
  • Ensure regular exchanges/routines with Procurement for the deployment of Supplier Strategic Development activities and providing the consolidated view of suppliers performance & maturity

 

 

Drive Supplier Operational Development in the Region

• • Drive supplier crisis management within the region
    • Build appropriate partnership with external & internal players to be able to mobilize immediately crisis management and/or skilled residents at the supplier
    • Ensure crisis management team is in place at the early stage of the crisis for all suppliers declared in crisis mode
    • Ensure the proper implementation of crisis exit plan for all suppliers in his/her scope, follow progress until completion
    • Ensure proper dialogue, partnership with supplier
    • Coordinate as needed with Domains/Regional Procurement/Global organization and other functions (projects, sites, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance)
    • Maintain the list of suppliers under crisis mode, the status & forecasted end of crisis

 

• • Act preventively to reduce as much as possible the need for crisis mode with suppliers
    • Preventively maintain list of suppliers in crisis mode or about to enter in crisis.
    • Ensure the capture of signals to early anticipate issues (Top offender, SRM, QCDT performance, outputs from QBR reviews…) to act preventively and correctively.
    • Deliver full REX after each crisis and ensure lessons learned are

 

Manage/animate and develop the team (SSD – Strategic Supplier Development & SOD – Supplier Operational Development)

• Directly manage the team
• Ensure adequate competencies of the Supplier Strategic Development teams to meet full autonomy for delivering all supplier strategic development activities (special processes, quality & supply chain audits)
• Measure the efficiency of the overall organization & propose improvement actions
• Build partnership with internal players (APSYS, industrial teams, Subject Matter Experts networks, supply chain, etc.) and external players for conducting development activities as per needs

 

Monitor Supplier performance & action plans

• Consolidate the global performance of suppliers
• Define and develop routines with suppliers involving Procurement as needed to review progress
• Ensure proper application and management of the Escalation Process, and specifically to validate BLACK SQ escalation requests

 

 

Frequent travels required for the position – Domestic and International –

 

Alstom is the leading company in the mobility sector, solving the most interesting challenges for tomorrow’s mobility. That’s why we value inquisitive and innovative people who are passionate about working together to reinvent mobility, making it smarter and more sustainable. Day after day, we are building an agile, inclusive and responsible culture, where a diverse group of people are offered opportunities to learn, grow and advance in their careers, with options across functions