Alejandro CABALLERO CESPEDES

Operations Leader and Manager | PMD ESADE

Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

About

Operations Transnational Leader on Manufacturing Engineering and Procurement domains with passion and determination. Empathic Leader. Teams Development. Business Strategy. Results oriented. Leading with the example. Speaking with data via Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Support. Mechanical & Industrial Engineer fluent in 4 Languages.

Experience

  • Airbus (On-site)
    • HO Manufactuting Engineering Foundations Operations
      Apr 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

      Head of an Operations Center of Excellence, managing a 34-person team across France, Germany, Spain, and India (15 internal, 19 subcontractors), impacting ~1500 Process Engineers by standardising shopfloors operations preparation across all AIRBUS Plants and Final Assembly Lines (FALs). Establishing Process, Methods & Tools for: Time Calculation (MTM-UAS), Work Instructions, SAP Management, Aircraft Configuration Management, Numerical Control, Metrology and their training paths, while ensuring Plant/FAL performance and process Adherence using Data Analytics & Business Intelligence (Palantir, SAP BI4, Google Analytics). -Managing Direct Budget of 5M€/year. Indirect Budget (Projects) of 10M€/year. Monitor budget obtainment and operating expenditure. - Fostering team members career and competences development. - Supporting Top-Management Strategic Dossier Definition. - Introducing Plants/FAL's Paint Points on Strategic Dossier. - Transforming strategic axis in operating clear actions and initiatives. - Supporting DDMS (Digital Design Manufacturing & Services), SAP and Digital Operations Business Partners. Leading with Procurement, the Business Operations Support subcontracting Cluster (15M€/year): KPI's creation, developing new Tier-1, make/buy strategy set-up and implementation.

    • Procurement Commodity Manager
      Apr 2018 - Mar 2020 · 2 yrs

      Leader of a 4 Members Multi-Functional Team (Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain) on Thermoplastics Commodity. Set-up, steer and implemention of the Thermoplastics Commodity Strategy (De-risking, Vertical Integration, etc.). Identifying new partners, and opportunities challenging the status quo in order to: Boost competitiveness, foster competition in the commodity, getting financial savings and new Tier-1 Development. Managing a 25M€/year portfolio via: - NDA (Non Disclosure Agreements) - RFP (Request For Proposals) /CFT (Call For Tenders) - RFI (Request For Information) - CRA (Collaborative Research Agreement) Contract negotiation, contract writing, management of the legal checks (with the AIRBUS Legal Department), executive sum-up and getting AIRBUS Composites Procurement Vice-President Signature. Supplier Relationship Manager (SRM).

    • Project Leader and Manufacturing Engineer
      Jul 2012 - Mar 2018 · 5 yrs 9 mos

      Project Leader on MTM+ of 6 members, managing 1,5M€/year for Time Calculation, Line Balancing and Production Control (Spain: 11.14/03.18) & Transnational Coordination to set AIRBUS Line Balancing Tool & Methods (France: 07.12/10.14).

  • Process Time Methods Engineer at SEAT, S.A.
    Jan 2011 - Jun 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Optimisation robotic welding shopfloor. MTM-UAS. LEAN Manufacturing.

  • Industrial Engineering Internship at SEAT, S.A.
    Mar 2009 - Dec 2009 · 10 mos

  • Mechanical Engineering Internship at Michelin
    Jul 2008 - Dec 2008 · 6 mos