Obsolescence Manager

Location: Gorgonzola, Italy

Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.

Gorgonzola hosts Navigations Air Systems (NAS) domain. The activity of NAS domain: avionics, navigation and radar systems for civil air traffic and technologies supporting the activities of civilian and military pilots, ATC controllers and technicians of several airlines, air traffic control agencies and Air Force around the world. Italy is the Group’s Competence center for the design, production and delivery of Navigation Aids products and Competence Centre for the delivery of non-Radar Surveillance Products.

Key features of role for THALES:

- The role will lead a transversal team and multiple cross-functional contributors across the international organization of t
- Within this role falls the responsibility for the mastering of the Obsolescence Management process with proactivity, rigorousness and leadership in order to deploy all activities and actions requested to pursue the expected results.
- The role also covers the support to any Supply Chain disruption, specifically (but not only) related to electronics market shortages or sourcing difficulties leveraging the same Obsolescence Management team features.

Core Objective/Goal:

- Master the Obsolescence Management process and support the Supply Chain disruption for components and parts for the Business in order to minimize impacts for the business.
- Engage, and lead the multi-functional team that support the management of obsolescence.
- Identify, elaborate and codify all suitable solutions leveraging team contributions and own skills.
- In coordination with Product Design Authorits for each product develop proactive obsolescence monitoring and lifecycle planning (including product Lifetimes Buy Options, defining quantits and monitoring usage to predict production impacts).
- The role includes the complete follow-up of obsolescence management and Supply Chain disruptions activities toward the resolution of the case.
- It is included the elaboration and monitoring of KPIs on obsolescence management process, cases and associated status and resolution.

Detailed job description and responsibilities:

- Lead the Obsolescence Management process flow and deploy process steps:

- Control of products Bill Of Materials status
- Identification / Verification of cases of obsolescence
- Analysis of the impact on the system and alert the actors involved
- Collection of data on available supplies, using both historical and forward-looking
- Identification of the solutions and assessment of their technical and cost-effective viability
- Collection, analysis and archive product data for proactive control of obsolescence management
- Focus on solutions and planning
- Coordinate the various contributors participating to the process (i.e. Product Engineering, Product Design Authorities, Procurement, Supply Chain, etc.).
- Set and maintain updated all Obsolescence Management databases.
- Collect inputs for obsolescence cases, analyse and challenge data, identify most suitable solution and present business case for implementation of the same.
- Prepare periodic reports.
- Check, release and follow up purchase requests for procurement of Lifetimes Buy Options to cure obsolescence.
- Work in close relation with other key roles in order to ensure a strong global consistency of all electronics components and parts sourcing process activities.
- Support defining and tracking consumptions plan for stocked component and parts.
- Contribute in troubleshooting and root cause analysis for obsolescence and Supply Chain disruption domain.
- Contribute to optimise the recurrent costs and limit the non-recurrent costs of the products

Education
- Bachelor degree or equivalent qualification, engineering field is an advantage.

Needed skills:

- 3 to 5 years’ experience in the field of electronics components market (sourcing) and electromechanical industry
- Past experience in obsolescence management is valuable.
- Ability to lead, coach and manage a multifunctional team.
- Ability to liaise within international organization with peers.
- Ability to summarize and present business scenarios to management.
- Fluent in English written and spoken.
- IT savvy

Soft skills:

- Willingness to take over responsibilities.
- Open to challenges.
- An agile and proactive approach, with a demonstrated ability to take ownership of projects.
- A collaborative, solution-focused approach, and strong written and spoken communication skills.