ATR - Head of Performance Improvement (H/F), Toulouse

Airbus is a leading aircraft manufacturer with the most modern and comprehensive family of airliners on the market, ranging in capacity from 100 to more than 500 seats. Airbus champions innovative technologies and offers some of the world’s most fuel efficient and quiet aircraft. Airbus has sold over 13.800 aircraft to more than 360 customers worldwide. Airbus has achieved more than 8,000 deliveries since the first Airbus aircraft entered into service. Headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Missions

**Portfolio*

Based on ATR top objectives and ambitions, aim of the Projects Portfolio is to ensure the projects launch is an accordance with ATR’s priorities upon demonstrated ROI assessment. In this context, the jobholder will be responsible for:

• Managing the portfolio of product development projects ensuring its aligned and synchronized with ATR Top Company Objectives
• Prioritizing topics based on their impact on Company’s performance and proposing “value driven” roadmaps
• Ensuring that all Company stakeholders are aligned on the same priorities
• Ensuring the optimum use of resources for product evolution roadmap execution
• Providing constant visibility on the execution of the projects constituting the Portfolio and monitoring of their performance and risks/opportunities
• Analyzing and steering proposals for new strategic projects and assisting other directorates in their framing and scoring
• Working in close collaboration with Controlling department for all major performance tools (Assumption Pack, Operating Plan, Workload analysis, Target follow up, Business cases etc.)

Business Performance

The aim of the Business Performance activity is to provide an holistic overview of business metrics or performance drivers at all levels of the Company:

• Coordinating with all functions the definition of Company yearly targets / LEADS along the following clusters: Customers, People, Performance, Financial, Sustainable, Quality. -Identifying jointly with directorates the relevant performance drivers (KPIs) at Company level and associated measurement means (metrics).
• Producing and updating (monthly) the “Company dashboard” and associated visual reporting giving the overview for ATR.
• Assessing how the business is performing versus targets, identifying risks & opportunities and suggesting mitigation or enhancement plans to protect and ensure goals are met (trigger for performance improvement).
• Defining and deploying the overall governance and operating model related to dashboard creation / update / improvement through associated routines, promoting “stand-up” reviews.
• Ensuring full digitalization and industrialization of various dashboards using technology like Power-BI,
• Coordinating the overall business performance network.

Continuous Improvement

Based on ATR top objectives and ambitions, aim of this “Performance Improvement” approach is to make sure we have improvement projects allowing to reach all of our goals as well as to drive a continuous change management culture across the Company:

• Prioritizing improvement projects based on their impact on Company’s performance and proposing “value driven” roadmaps to ATR’s Executive Committee.
• Analyzing proposals for new improvement projects, assisting in their framing and characterization
• Monitoring and follow up of targets, KPIs and major improvement projects and initiatives.
• Supporting the steering of strategic and transformation projects.
• Promoting change management mindset and transversality in the Company.
• Providing methodological support and training to the business

Financial Costing

The aim of the Financial Costing activity is to manage ATR’ Costing strategy and approach whilst providing costing analysis and support to the business:

• Being the process owner of the Financial Costing, e.g. responsible for documenting, deploying and continuously improving the process.
• Actively participating to the change board by providing on request costing quotation on modifications (internal but also from Partners), hence challenging proposed RC/NRC & RP/NRP impacts.
• Supporting Procurement directorate in the negotiation of offers from suppliers or partners by providing costing expertise.
• Contributing to aircraft new developments by assessing global project/program costs according to defined gates (ex: MG3, MG5, etc).
• Supporting projects launch in the definition of appropriate business case.
• Developing financial awareness across the Company.

Profile

• Field of study : 5-year degree in aeronautical or equivalent.
• Experience : minimum ~ 10 years of experience in the aeronautical field.
• Ability to make proposals and to build consensus.
• Tenacity, dynamism and determination for the success of initiatives & projects.
• Enthusiasm, high level of energy, ability to influence and to embark people.
• Capacity for coordination, adaptability, reliability.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (capacity to address top management).
• Strong analytical skills, attentive to details.
• Innovative spirit, think globally, used to challenge status quo.
• Knowledge in change management and disruptive ways of working.
• Experience in team management.
• Strong autonomy and initiative on problem solving.
• Fluent in English (negociation) and French (Italian is a plus) .- … but above all, you are ready to take off with us to keep connecting communities and businesses and provide the best possible products and support to our customers!