RSAF MRTT Program Local PMO & Liaison Manager

at  Airbus Defence and Space Saudi Limited

JOB DESCRIPTION:

1.- Local (KSA) PMO management : The candidate will be fully autonomous to manage the local Program Management Office in coordination with the RSAF MRTT Program Manager and the PMO in Spain. Activities include the following as a minimum:

• Management of customer/stakeholders communications as per the contractual deliverables.
• Official Customer Communications Management: translations, delivery and follow up of official communications.
• Active participation in internal meetings and meetings with Customer.
• MoM preparation and action items follow up.
• Support preparation and delivery to the Customer of Program Status Reports.
• Support MRTT sales campaigns if applicable (SMART, upgrades, etc…)
• Preparing and creating PO’s for external services if required.
• Contractual deliverables control and contractual evidences collection.
• Preparation and consolidation of Program Management Review presentations.
• Perform Invoicing Management and Payments Monitoring with customer.
• Support the Contractual documents development if required.
• Support Cost Control and Contract Monitoring.
• Support the Risk & Opportunity Management.

2.- Customer Liaison responsibilities: the candidate should team up with the Saudi Local Representative to achieve contract targets. Achieving a smooth contractual and trustworthy relationship with the main stakeholders (RSAF, MoD) is a primary target. The Liaison Manager should aim to achieve a similar level of Stakeholder Management relationship as the Local Saudi Representative so that, if required, together or in the absence of one of them, the work could continue smoothly. Other responsibilities include:

• Identification of risks and opportunities. Proposal and support to the implementation of the mitigation plans.
• Active participation in contractual/technical dedicated meetings with the Customer.
• Developing a network of contacts in the customer organization to ensure effective communication with the right person for business related matters.
• Follow up and resolution of outstanding processes under customer responsibility (ie. Invoicing/payments).
• Involvement and coordination to ensure that customer needs, priorities and concerns are transmitted to the Airbus organization and proper responsive actions are launched and communicated.
• Participation in the meetings with the customer to ease mutual understanding and targets achievements.
• Participation in the preparation and proper transmission of the information from the company to the customer and viceversa.
• Identification and proposal of new business opportunities.

3.- Offset organization support: The Industrial Participation Contract associated to the MRTT6 contract is executed in parallel and is run by the Offset organization with the corresponding Industrial Participation Manager. Nevertheless, the successful execution of the Industrial Participation Contract is also a contractual target of the MRTT6 contract. Therefore, the Liaison Manager should also support, if required and as required, the Offset organization to achieve the Industrial Participation targets.
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

EXPERIENCE LEVEL:

Professional

• Identification of risks and opportunities. Proposal and support to the implementation of the mitigation plans.
• Active participation in contractual/technical dedicated meetings with the Customer.
• Developing a network of contacts in the customer organization to ensure effective communication with the right person for business related matters.
• Follow up and resolution of outstanding processes under customer responsibility (ie. Invoicing/payments).
• Involvement and coordination to ensure that customer needs, priorities and concerns are transmitted to the Airbus organization and proper responsive actions are launched and communicated.
• Participation in the meetings with the customer to ease mutual understanding and targets achievements.
• Participation in the preparation and proper transmission of the information from the company to the customer and viceversa.
• Identification and proposal of new business opportunities