Company: Safran Seats
Job field: Purchasing
Location: Cwmbran, Wales, United Kingdom
Contract type: Permanent
Contract duration: Full-time
Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award-winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality, and industrial design.
At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!
In the UK, Safran Seats specializes solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide-body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales, and Brackley, England.
The role of strategic buyer within Safran Seats GB supports a fast-paced business that designs, certifies, and manufactures aircraft seating of the highest quality and passenger-focused excellence.
The strategic buyer has supplier and programme facing activities, including commercial negotiations and also supplier performance objectives such as quality, cost, and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
1. To issue and monitor RFP's to suppliers using available engineering data.
2. Review and selection of suppliers based on proposals/quotations received.
3. Setup supplier data within the business ERP system.
4. Using MRP data to raise necessary PO's and work with a predetermined number of suppliers to ensure that materials ordered are delivered on time in full, and to the correct quality standards.
5. To develop relationships with suppliers.
6. To manage purchasing projects such as industrialisation of new products that include but are not limited to composite, metallic, and electrical components.
7. To manage supplier Long Term Agreements.
Job Requirements
Candidate skills:
1. Read and understand engineering drawings.
2. Demonstrable experience in problem-solving techniques.
3. Knowledge of Purchasing activity within a manufacturing environment.
No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you!
As a valued member of our team, these are just a few of the benefits you'll receive:
1. 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays.
2. Benefits Programme, with a number of schemes such as cycle to work, technology savings, retail discounts, and access to private healthcare.
3. Career Progressions opportunities such as company sponsorship and further training courses.
4. Family-friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoptive parents, shared parental leave, parental leave, and flexible working.
5. Equality & Diversity initiatives with internal groups for workplace engagement and involvement.
6. STEM engagement with schools, colleges, and universities and Charitable activities for all.
Please apply and submit your CV today! Once your CV has been reviewed, we will contact you with the next stages.
We're committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Safran Seats an inclusive place to work.
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