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**Buyer**
**Permanent**
**Hybrid Working - 2 days WFH (after training)**
**Competitive Salary and Excellent Company Benefits**
**Farnborough**
**Are you an experienced buyer looking for a new position? Do you have experience purchasing for the Aerospace Industry? If so I have a great opportunity for you working with one of the leading global manufacturers of aerospace parts. They are lookingfor someone who has experience purchasing machined or electrical parts within a manufacturing environment.**
**Buyer**

**Materials**:

- Raising purchase orders, managing through to delivery - expediting parts where needed
- Analysis of supply failures and corrective action
- Be able to take responsibility for actions and keep hold of issues whilst delivering the solution to all root causes - not quick fixes.
- Identify risk within the supply chain and manage the appropriate plans to address these in line with recognised tools and standards
- Manage and maintain the purchase orders working within the logistics team to ensure that the suppliers OTIF is not impact when orders are split or pulled in.
- Inventory and stock turns are key to our business; this will be an important part of the buyers role in working with the supplier, operations and strategic buying in ensuring the correct balance of needs and cost.

**Suppliers**:

- Contact Suppliers to manage orders and support fluctuations in production demand ensuring the right parts flow through for production - driving down work order release impacts.
- Perform business and performance reviews of suppliers
- Take responsibility for a number of known ‘problem suppliers’, review history and take ownership for definition and deliver of actions to achieve a durable solution and recovery of performance.
- Build and maintain relationships with the suppliers

**Continuous Improvement**:

- Using principles of root cause analysis to support the implementation of corrective actions.
- Contribute to and lead key improvement projects related to systems and processes in use both within the department and cross-functionally.

**Buyer**
**Essential Experience/ Skills/ Qualifications**:

- Strong understanding of an MRP system and the supply chain relevant parameters influencing and driving the operational excellence of the business.
- Previous purchasing experience for machined parts or electrical in a manufacturing environment, with preference for Aerospace/medium batch high variety
- Previous proven experience expediting and driving improvements to OTIF
- Excellent PC skills and user knowledge of Microsoft Office - excel skills should be very strong: Vlookup, pivot

**Buyer**
**Desirable Experience/ Skills/ Qualifications**:

- Understanding and experience of export regulations and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
- Business/Commercial audit experience
- Experience in a Lean manufacturing / Supply Chain
- Best practice - CIPS
- Qualification in engineering or business discipline (ideally degree qualified) or experience in working in a technical environment.
- Continuous improvement and problem-solving experience