Job Title: Strategic Buyer
Location:
Sunbury on Thames, SRY, GB, TW16 7EF
Business Unit:
Air Technology
Posting Date:
Aug 20, 2024
Job Description:
Scope of Role:
- Bring spend within their category under procurement management using set strategies
- Use said strategies to achieve optimal cost reduction, manage supplier relationships and risk.
- Accountable for identifying, setting and managing metrics to ensure suppliers achieve the required delivery and quality performance levels
- Work collaboratively, exhibit a strong sense of urgency to meet customer timelines, exhibit an intense curiosity/learning drive, successfully operate in a fast-paced environment, engage/influence key stakeholders, be extremely customer-focused, and continuously develop their business acumen
Main Duties/Responsibilities:
- Bring spend within the category under procurement management through theme execution/implementation, strategic management, and stakeholder alignment.
- Identify and develop new supplier opportunities, with improved focus on low-cost regions.
- Own relationships with key site and stakeholder leadership.
- Ensure the management of supplier relationships and risk.
- Implement sourcing strategies in collaboration with internal business partners and suppliers to reduce risks and costs.
- Identify, set, and manage metrics to hold suppliers accountable for performance and delivery.
- Drive results through the creation and management of competitive bidding processes.
- Analyse data and market trends for use in strategy creation and management.
- Work collaboratively with a strong sense of urgency to meet customer timelines.
- Engage and influence key internal and external stakeholders.
- Support Operational Purchasing team in relation to product flow, obsolescence and last time buys as required
Professional Knowledge & Experience:
- Aerospace or other regulated industry experience with technical ability to read drawings and understand manufacturing processes
- Degree in Purchasing & Supply or CIPs qualified an advantage
- Experience of strategic planning towards cost reduction, VA/VE, vendor management, vendor reduction programmes
- Excellent analytical skills, ability to create Excel Spreadsheets, presentations etc
- Proven track record in improving Supplier Relations, Cost reduction and lead-time reduction
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement techniques