Procurement Lead

6 months ago

Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom Safran Electrical & Power UK Full time

**Procurement Lead**

**Pitstone, Tring, Hertfordshire**
**£ Competitive**

**Benefits**: 8% Bonus, Excellent Pension, 33 Days Holiday, Dental, BUPA, Workplace nursery scheme, Midday finish on Fridays, Enhanced family friendly policies, Wellbeing programme, Employee assistance programme including health and finance, Onsite subsidised canteen

**Skills**: SAP, AS9100, CIPS, Supply chain management, Production control systems, JIT, Purchasing, Leadership capabilities, Negotiating, Analytical

At Safran Electrical & Power, we recognise that aviation needs to innovate and change in order to protect our environment. We believe that future aircraft power systems will be hybrid-electric or full-electric, which is why we are working to develop and deliver advanced electrical solutions to help decarbonise flight.

If you want to help deliver this future, we are looking for enthusiastic and creative people to join our team.

The UK Safran Electrical & Power team has expertise in designing and developing electrical systems comprising generators, power conversion, distribution and control, with developing expertise in electric motors for aircraft propulsion.

As a Procurement Lead at Safran Electrical & Power you will be responsible for allocated suppliers across the commodity, expediting orders placed when necessary. You will act as the focal point for all day-to-day material requirements across a range of agreed suppliers, building relationships with key stakeholders, while also leading and coordinating with buyers to ensure deliveries are actioned on time. You will utilise your innovative capabilities to drive improvement within the procurement team, helping to find solutions within the supply chain.

**The Role**
- Act as the central point of contact for day-to-day material requirements from a range of suppliers
- Provide leadership and day to day management to assigned team of Buyers.
- Significant levels of coordination and communication with both internal and external stakeholders as part of a cross-functional global supply chain team
- Escalate issues with suppliers and buyers as and when necessary, whilst also resolving changes to planned supply, keeping line management updated
- Work closely with the Program Manager to ensure they are updated regularly on the status of supply for their programs, taking identified actions on behalf of the purchasing team
- Manage deliveries of purchase orders to be just in time for inventory management
- Drive improvement actions within the procurement team via KPI reviews and maintenance, helping to find solutions to common issues
- Work with suppliers to resolve issues that affect performance such as quality discrepancies, booking-in queries and invoice query resolution
- Coordinate with the commodity team for new vendor introductions

**Desirable Experience**
- Prior experience working within a manufacturing environment
- CIPS Level 4 or above is desirable
- Leadership experience beneficial
- Ability to communicate and build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of supply chain management
- Experience working with SAP would be beneficial
- Evidence of written English at interview stage

**Get involved**:
We also have a number of groups and forums onsite that you can get involved with, including Women at Safran, STEM ambassadors, employee forum, charity partnerships and wellbeing programme.

Our Wellbeing Programme in Pitstone aims to place employee wellbeing at the heart of our business, and we integrate it within all that we do. The programme is made up of four wellbeing committees; Healthy Minds, Physical, Social & Financial. Our enhanced family friendly policies re-enforce our commitment to providing a workplace that is both diverse and inclusive.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Leighton Buzzard: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Work Location: In person

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