Senior Strategic Buyer

3 months ago

Gloucester, United Kingdom GE Aviation Full time

The role of Senior Buyer is a highly impactful, strategic position and the work you'll be doing with your stakeholders is vital to ensure the success of our ambitious objectives. You will have the opportunity to contribute to continuous improvement of our procurement processes and tools and play a key role in helping to develop future supplier ramp-up strategies.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- You will be an advocate of procurement best practice and be a champion of system data integrity and operational efficiency.
- You will conduct market assessments, helping to identify potential new suppliers as well as manage new and existing supplier relationships, ensuring adherence to contractual KPIs, compliant procurement according to GE procurement practices and procedures to secure safety, quality, delivery, and cost on products/services.
- You will take ownership of the commercial negotiation and contracting process from RFI/RFQs through to contract award and order acknowledgement to ensure 100% on time order placement.
- You will partner with sourcing, fulfilment, engineering, finance, and programs.
- You will work with and analyze data and insights to identify where there are potential risks in our supply chain and take the lead in finding required solutions.

***Qualifications and experience**:

- BA/BSc degree or equivalent experience, or CIPS qualification.
- You will need to have demonstrable procurement experience within a highly regulated industry such as Aerospace or Automotive.
- Superb attention to detail and the ability to analyze and convey complex data into clear and concise reports is essential for success in this role.
- You must be comfortable operating in a system driven environment and using ERP systems.
- Proven experience developing strategic relationships with your suppliers that have resulted in category growth and contract management, negotiation, and data analysis skills.

**Desired experience**:

- You will ideally be an expert operator of ERP systems. Past experience of Syteline and/or Oracle is preferred.

**Flexible Working**:
GE supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance.

**Total Reward**:
At GE Aviation we understand the importance of Total Reward. Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible.

As a new joiner to GE we are pleased to be able to offer you the following as default in your benefit fund, which you then can tailor to meet your individual needs;
- Non-contributory Pension
- Life Assurance
- Group income protection
- Private medical cover
- Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible option to buy or sell

**Security Clearance**

Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security. Please see the link below for further details regarding the requirements for BPSS clearance: BPSS

**Right to Work**

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**Additional Information**:
**Relocation Assistance Provided**:No

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