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Head of Transport North AmericaAirbus • Kinston, NC, United States
Head of Transport North America

Head of Transport North America

Airbus • Kinston, NC, United States
7 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Head of Transport North America

Reporting operationally to the Mobile Senior Director Ho Supply Chain Operations (Ho AAPO), the Head of Transport North America holds ultimate operational and strategic authority over all regional transportation activities. This role is directly accountable for driving the management, governance, and final decision-making for all cross-functional transformation projects within the new PIT team, while decisively steering the local operations and performance of Airbus affiliates across the region.

Key Pillars of Authority:

  • Strategic Operations Management: Directs and commands all North American transportation activities, moving past mere coordination to absolute operational ownership.
  • Executive Decision-Making & Transformation: Serves as the final authority on all transverse projects, driving the strategic evolution, performance metrics, and restructuring of the new PIT team.
  • Affiliate Governance: Exercises full management oversight over local operations, ensuring Airbus affiliates are aligned with global standards and regional performance targets.

The Head of Transport North America is accountable for the delivery on time and on quality of key PIT projects in the region, and is expected to contribute and lead portions of projects which will drive integration to the PIT team regionally and worldwide.

The Head of Transport North America is accountable to drive the synergies and efficiencies, ensuring bundling opportunities are realized, and managing and steering the various KPIs of PIT across the region. They are also accountable for the management of the interface to central functions related to compliance, audit, risks and opportunities, tools and processes.

In addition, the Head of Transport North America is accountable for harmonizing the PIT framework for the Airbus affiliates covered by the teams in the region. He/she is accountable for the local operational performance of PIT in those affiliates and the management of local stakeholders. He/she drives the integration of the local PIT operations within the regional and global PIT organization, processes and tools.

Main activities:

  • Design and implement North America Transport Operating model (30%)
  • Team Leadership & Development (20%)
  • Operations Management (20%)
  • Suppliers & Performance Management (10%)
  • Process & Project Management (10%)
  • Regional / cross divisional Transport network development (5%)
  • Reporting & Analysis (5%)

Organization structure

The jobholder reports:

  • Operationally/locally to the Mobile Ho Supply Chain Operations (Ho AAPO): HR process, local sites relationship, local regulations
  • Functionally to the VP Head of Transport PIT based in Toulouse: POA compliance, Adherence to process, Transport strategy, transformation project Improvement plan, Budget OP capex/opex, overall performance

As part of Transport team, he/she manages the North America Transport operations in coordination with North America Supply Chain Sites team, PIX central process teams, QPMT Transport Quality team, General Procurement teams.

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