Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Representative of both EU & US supply chain teams in China
- Develop and maintain strong and long-term relationships with suppliers & partners
- To ensure support at several stages of the project:
o Design phase: to ensure design to cost & compliance to the contract agreement:
 To attend design reviews and technical meetings to make sure technical specifications & quality requirements
are well-understood & taken into account by suppliers/partners.
 To ensure manufacturing requirements are taken into account in the design phases.
 Ease communication between STC & suppliers/partners and contribute to find agreement when needed.
o Manufacturing phase: to support the suppliers/partners' follow up of local suppliers on a regular basis.
o Perform quality inspection and factory acceptance of pieces of equipment manufactured by local suppliers.
- Support suppliers/partners in building relevant manufacturing & procurement plans, to support product industrialization & process qualification
- Build an effective communication on on-going projects between Safran TC offices and suppliers/partners in order to maintain stakeholders' cohesion and achieve project commitments
- Provide a direct feedback to the STC supply chain manager (EU) on a regular basis
- Business development: supplier prospection, negotiation, contract management
- Ensure arbitrage and co-decision on technical option in his scope. Give orientation to Senior
Management decision
- To support supplier/partner improvement to achieve STC strategic goals
- To raise any concern or deviation to the Chinese norms & rules for related components
- Edit lessons learned, improve practices for the benefit of the global team
- Provide translation services (verbal and written) when required

Soft/hard skills:
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written with a proven ability to be assertive
- Able to work in different cultures with successful outcome
- Trusted, well-organized, autonomous, self-motivated, driven, organized, able to multi-tasks, able to prioritize activities & build consensus with teams
- Self-starter with ability to work under pressure to deliver targets on time
- Negotiation & contract management skills
- Able to catch major concerns & raise to the relevant people
- Able to manage & survey suppliers/partners and co-develop a strategy to improve their performance
- Able and willing to travel up to 50% of the time both domestically and internationally, as required
- Able to locate and establish business relationships with key suppliers/partners
- Able to manage multiple project activities, communicate goals & objectives, identify and manage external stakeholders
- Able to apply PMI or equivalent methodology
- Proficient in MS Office programs (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook & MS Project)
- High fluent in Chinese and English. French is a plus.


Education/Experience:
- Master’s degree in technical fields such as (but not limited to) mechanical engineering (materials, welding, machining, assembly, NDT …)
- Master’s degree of Commerce is a plus
- Proven 5-8 years’ experience in design & industrialization follow-up with one or several suppliers
- Relevant experience in contract negotiation & management
- Knowledge in Chinese & international norms as well as in quality certifications is a plus