Safran

Buyer III

Safran • $90K — $105K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business/Economics or related field, preferred.
  • 5+ years of experience in purchasing.
  • Proven track record in developing and implementing sourcing strategies.
  • Strong negotiation skills with cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills for effective relationship building.
  • Creative problem-solving abilities and proactive attitude.

Responsibilities

  • Manage supply chain relationships and contracts for assigned commodities.
  • Coordinate quality and engineering changes with suppliers.
  • Secure and analyze quotes; negotiate prices with suppliers.
  • Develop long-term sourcing strategies for commodities.
  • Conduct supplier assessments regarding risk and capability.
  • Maintain a continuous supply of materials to prevent disruptions.
  • Monitor supplier performance and prepare relevant reports.

Benefits

  • Full-time permanent position with job security.
  • Opportunity to influence purchasing strategies and commodity roadmap.
  • Engagement in continual improvement initiatives like Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing.
  • Collaborative work environment involving engineering and program departments.
Full Job Description
Job details

Domain

Production

Job field / Job profile

Purchasing - Purchasing tools and methods

Job title

Buyer III

Employment type

Permanent

Professional category

Employees / Staff

Part time / Full time

Full-time

Job description

Summary of Job Purpose:

Support the purchasing department in managing low to medium complexity machine parts, Castings and Forgings used on gas turbine engines. Participate in the purchasing strategy and commodity roadmap definition; deploy best practices and tools to ensure cost reduction and supplier contracting objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Effectively manage supply chain relationships and contract for the assigned commodities and suppliers.
• Coordinates quality matters, engineering, and price changes between company components and suppliers. Expedites the procurement of parts and/or materials in short or critical supply.
• Under general direction, secures and analyzes quotations and negotiates prices and terms with U.S. and international suppliers, subject to management approval, for the purchase of fixed assets, parts, materials, products and/or services.
• Develops and implements long-term sourcing strategies.
• Supplier assessments (risk, maturity, capability and capacity). Obtain information from suppliers concerning product and/or service specifications, price, delivery dates, etc.
• Support the Purchasing Leader for defining the Purchasing roadmaps by providing inputs and results on the commodities and suppliers managed.
• Ensure adherence to the company Supply Chain management policies, procedures and Purchasing best practices.
• Maintain a continuous supply of materials to avoid any disruptions in manufacturing and/or customer service, performing all work with a sense of urgency and timeliness.
• Support tactical buyer's team by creating supplier contracts on time into the ERP system. Reconcile differences in price or quantity of received supplier products with the Accounts Payable and Receiving departments.
• Support the Engineering and Program departments during the industrialization of the new equipment.
• Monitors supplier performance, prepares reports and other records pertaining to the items or services purchased, cost, delivery, product or service performance, supplier performance and/or inventories, as applicable. Support Internal Quality and Logistic departments in case of supplier non-performance.
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to the company's objectives for 100% On Time Deliveries, Quality, 5S, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and any other improvement initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned

But what else? (advantages, specificities, etc.)

Required Competencies; Education / Knowledge / Skills and Abilities:
• Bachelor Degree in Business/ Economics or related field is desired with 5+ years of experience in purchasing.
• Experience in delivering competitive advantage to the business through development and implementation of sourcing strategies for the spend category;
• Ability to lead projects and negotiate with cross functional and cross market teams;
• Good business writing skills and ability to use networks to influence business activity and convince others;
• Excellent interpersonal skills with good relationship building skills;
• Ability to drive results and obtain information from a team;
• A proven team player with creative problem solving skills;
• Ability to multi task, problem solve, proactive with good presentation skills and self-initiative.
• Experience in gas turbine engines and SAP is plus

Physical Requirements:
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Candidate skills & requirements

Additional Information:
• The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or
• The scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

Annual salary

$90,000 to $105,000

Job location

Job location

North America, United States, California, San Diego

City (-ies)

4255 Ruffin road CA 92123 San Diego, États-Unis

Applicant criteria

Minimum education level achieved

Bachelor's Degree

Minimum experience level required

More than 5 years

ITAR Controlled Position: Select "Yes" if role requires U.S. citizenship/permanent residency

No

About Safran

Safran is a French multinational aerospace and defense company. It designs, manufactures, and sells aircraft engines, rocket engines, and other aerospace components. Safran is also involved in the defense industry, producing optronics, avionics, and other defense systems. The company has partnerships with several other aerospace and defense companies, including General Electric and Boeing. Safran has operations in over 60 countries and employs over 95,000 people.
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