African Support Ecosystem Development Director at Airbus DS Optronics (Pty) Ltd

Activities: 

Support to the Ecosystem development strategy definition

• Continuous monitoring and understanding of existing capabilities and capacity in the African Aviation Ecosystem
• Proposing realistic cooperation projects and the associated cooperation mechanism (partnership, JV, services) to improve and grow the existing capacity / capability 
• Prioritizing cooperation opportunities in coordination with the relevant stakeholders (Regional management, Services Business Lines, Services Strategy management)
• In link with Services Business Lines, ensure consistency and adequacy of the scope of the cooperation projects, delivering the best possible value proposition to the partner and optimizing Airbus financial impact whilst ensuring alignment with Airbus African Support Strategy and coordination with Airbus Aftermarket Strategy
• Evaluate potential for revenue of the cooperation projects, ensuring safety remains priority

Ecosystem development project management and execution

• Leading Africa ecosystem development projects (in accordance with internal processes) until project execution or until cooperation is in running mode
• Establishing the most appropriate project structure,
• Ensuring validation of projects objectives and associated resources,
• Following-up project progress and deliverables, proposing and setting project indicators (KPI)
• Organizing and animating project management in a structured and agile way,
• Organizing progress reviews with the different project or work package leaders across Services business lines,
• Defining the financial and budgetary implications of the cooperation and get it validated,
• Ensuring that the required contractual set-up is in place (NDA, LoI, MoU, contractual agreement, JV, …);
• Implementing Risk & Opportunity approach to maximize chances of success 
• Ensuring consistency of local projects with other projects of Services growth project portfolio and of Airbus Services transformation platform
• Reporting to the head of Africa Support and the sponsors of the projects on the progress and deliverables
• Interfacing with the necessary institutions for synergies and funding (IATA, AFRAA, EU, Africa Union, Governments…)
• Roles and responsibilities can be adapted according to the department's evolving priorities. 
• The position may require frequent business trips across Africa and the jobholder must be available to travel accordingly

Skills/competencies: 

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience: 

• Educated to a 5-year degree level (or equivalent) in engineering or business. An MBA would be a plus
• Previous experience(s) in Commercial Aviation and/or Aviation Services