A career at Lilium is for those who want to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology and customer experience.

As part of a team, you will tackle challenges and deliver something that has never been done before. By joining Lilium you will have the opportunity to work with a world-class entrepreneurial team of more than 950 people who are as passionate about changing the world as you are.

You will always act with safety and integrity in mind and embody our core behaviors of efficient and positive collaboration, ownership of time, continuous improvements and, ultimately delivering results.

We thrive on diversity and creating an inclusive culture, with more than 50 nationalities currently working hard to bring our vision of a sustainable world to life.

Your role and your team:

We are looking for an ambitious and experienced Supply Chain Operations Manager working closely with Lilium Senior Program Leadership, Logistics, Quality, Design, and Manufacturing Engineering as well as major suppliers to ensure program objectives are met and stay on schedule. Reporting to the Head of Supply Chain Structure & Interiors, you will be responsible for the entire operational supply chain activities for aircraft suppliers which are within your scope.

Your Day to Day:

• Work in a cross-functional team to identify and assess potential suppliers.
• Lead selected suppliers towards industrialization of new products.
• Act as a project manager towards the supplier and take responsibility for supplier schedule, capacity and change implementation.
• Actively contribute to the cross-functional team that will:
• Drive APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) activities at Suppliers.
• Implement data collection at the supplier for transparency on quality and production performance.
• Ensure the readiness of the supply base by launching capability assessments as well as capacity audits at relevant suppliers.
• Ensure compliance to the international regulations and customs processes.
• Work with the Supply Chain Quality Team to ensure that the supply chain will comply to all necessary quality standards of EASA 21G and EN9100.
• Implement proper risk management to avoid any disruption to the supply of items and program delays.
• Drive recovery actions internally and at suppliers in case of non-performance.
• Partake in the deployment of the supply chain control tower with visual monitoring of the performance and risks in the supply chain.
• Ensure all internal root causes for supplier non-performance (e.g. demand, technical specifications) are identified swiftly and addressed in an efficient collaborative way.
• Lead by example with uncompromising business ethics and respect for people.

Your Profile:

Required:

• Minimum qualifications / education: Bachelor of Engineering and/or Business Administration Degree.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in supply chain or technical project management roles out of which 2 in a similar position within a technology driven industry (ex. automotive, aerospace).
• Excellent communications and leadership maturity. Ability to build trust and consensus and secure commitment from all team members. Willingness to take risks in decision making.
• Can-do mindset, ability to understand and analyze a problem and come up with solutions.
• Eager to learn and adopt his/her style to a rapidly changing environment; puts the team first; robust and passionate to follow given objectives; uses failure as learning experience.
• Willingness to travel on demand within EU as well as worldwide for supplier visits.
• Fluent in English

Beneficial:

• Understanding of aerospace manufacturing processes relating to composites and metallic materials.
• Fluent in German

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Want to know more? Then view our 'Why join Lilium' page!

Life at Lilium:

The wellbeing of our employees is a high priority. In our HQ we have many initiatives such as free healthy food and drinks, free in-house gym and health days. In remote offices we offer online opportunities to stay connected and develop yourself as well including our culture club, learning terminal, Employee Assistance Program and many more.

Lilium is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.