Value Stream Manager

Our client has an opportunity for a Value Stream Manager to join them on a contract basis. You will be defining, understanding and explaining all aspects of the strategy based upon business objectives.
Role: Value Stream Manager
Location: Filton - 100% onsite
Hours: 35 hours per week
Clearance: BPSS required to start
Hourly Rate: £35.03 per hour via Umbrella, inside IR35
What you'll be doing:

• The VSM WB Wing organization ensures the smooth flow of product and information End-to-End within the value chain to achieve on quality, on time and on cost WB Wings and ultimately contributes to the delivery of WB aircraft to the customer line and on to our Airline Customers.
• The Programme Managers within VSM WB Wing in the Filton Plant report to the Ho VSM WB Wing - Filton Plant.
• The role partners the plant to ensure that the overall Plant and VSM industrial customer needs and financial objectives are achieved. Furthermore, Value Stream Management evolves the industrial system to enable future production rates, new aircraft development and the competitive challenge against the five-year ambition.
• A Programme Manager VSM WB Wing in Filton:

• Works within a highly motivated team with whom it is enjoyable to evolve and get things done
• Lives the Airbus values and always strives to put Airbus first in decision making,
• Acts in a highly performing environment with the willingness to jointly achieve the company objectives
• Builds and maintains multi-functional and transnational interfaces inside Airbus, with our Industrial Partners and with our Supply Chain to ensure overall Industrial objectives achievement
• Strongly influences the organization to deliver against the overall VSM goals and priorities through the willingness to bridge functional, hierarchical and geographical boundaries
• Anticipates risks up and down the value chain, ensuring plans are in place to protect Quality Gates, R, S, H & O through the industrial system for Wing.
• Implements proactive early warning measures, establishing an MFT to ensure effective containment actions are in place
• Acts/plans ahead of the risk materialising and ensures stakeholders are communicated to in a proactive manner
• Seeks opportunities and is able to challenge and propose alternatives to the status quo in order to move Airbus towards its ambitions
• Drives a strong and fast decision-making process to address industrial opportunities, risks and short-falls with the right level of resource and competence to get them managed effectively
• Thinks "process" and prepares decisions in favour of the Value Stream and not a particular plant
• Substitutes as required for the Ho VSM - Filton Plant, and collaborates with the local VSM leaders in Filton, Bremen, Broughton and the FAL to ensure a robust industrial process and the exchange of good practices to enable an improvement of the industrial process
• Fosters multidisciplinary collaboration on site to support the operational success of the Value Stream
• Translates the company/programme strategy for the local VSM team and the plant management team
• Leads the Change Management process and End to End management of modifications within the Filton Plant
• In the event of a QSR - a quality escape either from the Plant or from the supply chain - coordinates and prioritizes the Industrial rework to minimize overall impact
• Coordinates overall business update and feedback loop process through regular A400M Programme Review Meetings (PRM)
• Coordinates Quality Gate & Service Level Agreements through the A400M industrial system from Supplier to FAL
• Ensures sufficient Budget allocation to manage the Business effectively - and monitors/aids control of adherence to Cost allocations

Requirements:

• Project Management Experience
• Leadership - Focus on people
• Experience in an Operational / supply chain
• Business Management - Experience of Budgets: RC/NRC, OpEx/CapEx, etc.
• Lean Fundamentals / Continuous Improvement culture
• Lean Fundamentals / Continuous Improvement culture
• Understanding of Airbus Financial System
• Teamworking
• Working beyond boundaries
• Airbus Quality systems
• Build a trustful and inclusive environment
• Challenge the norm - Pioneer the Future
• Quality Gate Process

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please apply immediately!
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