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Your Role and Your Team

Your Day to Day

• Manage “end to end” global procurement, from forecasting/planning, purchasing, supplier development & monitoring, delivery to final payment
• Closely engage with internal cross-functional project teams (Engineering, Manufacturing, Program and Supply Chain) to align on technical solutions, supplier selection, need dates and prioritization
• Reflect buying market opportunities into the design departments
• Source new suppliers and build up a fast and agile supplier network by negotiating agreements and implementing frame contracts
• Qualify suppliers in collaboration with supplier quality management and assess them regularly in accordance to Lilium requirements
• Define and implement pragmatic supply and replenishment strategies together with Production Planning & Control and Logistics to ensure availability of material at all time
• Support setting up the future serial supply chain by actively transferring the knowledge from the R&D Procurement towards Serial Procurement
• Drive End-to-End purchase management from sourcing until goods receipt incl. supplier selection, RFQ and benchmark, purchasing and supplier management
• Ensure on time and on quality delivery, drive performance reviews with suppliers regularly
• Create and maintain ERP master data for suppliers and material
• Establish a great relationship between suppliers and Lilium, lead and support problem solving proactively by connecting all stakeholders
• Participate in supplier negotiations, represent supply chain requirements and ensure a standardized framework
• Plan, drive and lead various improvement projects, with special focus on agility, automation and digitalization, and deliver on time, budget and quality

Your Profile

• Minimum qualifications / education: Bachelor of Engineering and/or Business Administration Degree.
• Minimum 2-3 years of experience in supply chain, procurement, or technical project management roles, ideally within a technology driven industry (ex. automotive, aerospace).
• Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications.
• 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.
• Entrepreneurial, can-do mindset and self-starter with strong problem-solving skills.
• Analytical thinker with a result driven working style.
• Eager to learn and adopt his/her style to a rapidly changing environment and able to manage speed and stress; puts the team first; robust and passionate to follow given objectives; uses failure as learning experience.
• Fluent in English.

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