Buyer – Aviation
£30,000 - £40,000
Mon – Thursday, 08:30 – 17:00, Friday 08:30 – 13:30.
Permanent
Bishops Stortford
Role Overview:
The Purchaser will be responsible for buying of all materials in a timely and cost-effective manner under the guidance of the Purchasing Manager. The ability to multitask and work under pressure are essential requirements of this role
Accountability:
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Experience:
Please can all interested candidates, please email your CV to josh@copello.co.uk or to discuss in more detail call me on 0 7435 806 852
£30,000 - £40,000
Mon – Thursday, 08:30 – 17:00, Friday 08:30 – 13:30.
Permanent
Bishops Stortford
Role Overview:
The Purchaser will be responsible for buying of all materials in a timely and cost-effective manner under the guidance of the Purchasing Manager. The ability to multitask and work under pressure are essential requirements of this role
Accountability:
- Ownership; take responsibility for your actions and their results, both positive and negative.
- Transparency: ensure the commerciality of the business is transparent to suppliers and stakeholders alike
- Integrity: be honest with stakeholder and about strengths and weakness, proactivity seeks feedback and that for others within your remit
- Problem solving; be proactive in identifying challenges and finding solutions rather than waiting for solutions to be presented.
- Team player: ensure you work well with others and activity promote collaboration with other stakeholders.
- Communicate effectively; maintain open and honest communications to ensure everyone understand the expectations and provide constructive feedback.
- Culture safe environment: create workplace where mistakes and viewed as learning opportunities; ensure team members feel supported and not micromanaged.
Responsibilities:
- Purchasing a wide range of materials in line with production requirements
- Timely placement of purchase orders and delivery of materials to ensure availability to production in line with production schedule
- Maintaining inventory levels within approved guidelines
- Resolving and investigating supply chain errors and examining via root cause analysis
- Ensuring parts and materials are purchased at the most competitive price
- Creating and updating daily shortage reports
- Continually improving purchasing methods in a bid to drive down external spend
- Identifying new suppliers including discount structures and volume rebates
- Progress chasing
- Monitor and update Inflite Engineering’s Approved Supplier List
- Ensuring the highest level of service is provided and maintained for both internal and external customers
- Assisting to ensure stringent material control is in place to ensure company targets are met with regards to spend, Inventory levels, usage, scrap etc. issuing Scorecards, managing WBR, MBR and QBRs where needed.
- Perform any other duties within your capabilities as directed by the Company.
- Performing of any other duties within your capabilities as directed by the Company
- Demonstrable experience in a similar role within a manufacturing environment
- The timely placement/fulfilment of Purchase Orders (PR-POs) and delivery of parts in-line with operational requirements.
- Responsible for monitoring, from time-time; shipments arriving from outside the UK
- Administer business workflow through ERP system to completion to ensure these Supplier driven targets are achieved (3-day for PR-PO for SLA).
- Able to work within the governance of QMS process and is aware of AS9100.
- Experience within aerospace industry desirable
- Purchasing a wide range of aircraft parts and materials in-line with operational procedures.
- Work with suppliers and internal departments providing daily continuity, feedback, and updates on open Orders.
- Effectively manage Supplier complaints.
- Help troubleshoot and manage Suppliers’ expectations.
- Computer literate with experience in ERP software and Microsoft Office.
- Excellent organisational and communication skills
- Provide feedback to the Supplier on non-compliant orders, relay technical information between the various stakeholders.
- Full Clean UK Driving Licence- due to location.
Qualifications:
- A high level of Supplier Relationship Management services experience with focus of delivering value.
- Conscientious, confident and computer literate.
- Well organised and articulate.
- Excellent attention to detail skills.
- A good working knowledge of Industry, Databases and appropriate software packages which are used across the company.
Experience:
- Data analysis; analyse Supplier data, determine integrity and trends and generate insights to inform decisions for the relevant stakeholders.
- Technical proficiency; expertise in using ERP/WMS/CRM platforms, Suppliers or otherwise, develop tools to automations and efficiency.
- Campaign management; drive commercial initiatives from start-end, work with other stakeholders to foster support to drive Supplier engagement and, thus yielding positive Supplier experience
- Cross-functional collaboration; work well with other stakeholders, ensure a collaborative culture is supported and ensure the business objectives are flown down to all levels
- Optimisation and Improvement; identity, implement methods of improving performance, strategy and streamline operation for efficiency and yield shareholder value.
Please can all interested candidates, please email your CV to josh@copello.co.uk or to discuss in more detail call me on 0 7435 806 852