Head of Transport North America

Location: Al Qaţīf

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Job Description Position Summary Reporting operationally to the Mobile Senior Director Head of 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.

Accountabilities

• Develop and execute the regional transport strategy, ensuring alignment with global Airbus Transport Directorate PIT objectives and optimizing transport flows for all general cargo and oversize movements within and from North America.
• Lead and manage all transport development projects focused on enhancing efficiency and identifying synergistic opportunities across Airbus's North American footprint.
• Ensure the deployment of Airbus Core transport processes and monitor adherence to ensure compliance with POA transport accountability across all sites.
• Supervise all day to day transport operations, monitor the performance of transport service providers, and implement corrective actions to ensure high service levels and cost effectiveness.
• Ensure all transport operations adhere to relevant local, national, and international regulations, and safety standards, while proactively identifying and mitigating transport related risks.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of transport professionals located across various sites (Mobile Alabama, Mirabel Canada, Kinston North Carolina), fostering a collaborative and results oriented environment.
• Manage the transport budget for the region, identifying and implementing initiatives to optimize costs without compromising service quality or operational integrity.

Dimensions

• Airbus America FAL Mobile, Airbus Kinston site, Airbus Canada FAL Mobile & Mirabel, Airbus SAS US outbound flows to EU.
• Subordinate employees (FTE headcount):
  Operational (ops.): 4 in Mobile (5 in 2026);
  Functional: 2 in Kinston (functional leadership); 8 9 in Mirabel (functional leadership).
• Operating Budget (financial terms): 40 M€.
• Other dimensions relevant to the position:
  All Airbus North America sites; >200 pick up locations connected to the transport network; transport requests / year.

Main activities Design and implement North America Transport Operating model (30%)

• Build the NA Transport stakeholder management and Governance model.
• Establish and manage Roles & Responsibilities enabling multi sites, multi programme, multi division organisation with dedicated SLA & operating model.
• Build up the budget model between different sites/ organisations enabling simplification and synergies.
• Set up and follow up the reporting model to each site, division to provide full transparency.
• Drive synergies within the region.
• Identify efficiencies on the team: identify opportunities through analysis of functionalities, pain points, repetitive or non value add tasks.
• Drive working sessions with the team and drumbeat implementation.
• Integration of Airbus entities at regional level:
  • Ensure a robust definition of…