Operational Buyer - Farnborough, United Kingdom - Owen Daniels Consultancy

Owen Daniels Consultancy
Owen Daniels Consultancy
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Farnborough, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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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 crossfunctionally.

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 problemsolving experience
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