Sub-contract Controller - Portsmouth, United Kingdom - StandardAero
Description
Build an Aviation Career You're Proud Of
Your work ties us all together, helping our teams function and operate. Experience opportunities to learn and be a part of an organization that has your back. And with competitive compensation and total rewards, you'll also enjoy our great perks.
Work with the latest technologies and techniques in the aviation industry to source materials, manage inventory, and coordinate logistics. You'll ensure we have what we need to service our customers.
As a Sub-Contract Controller you'll provide support to production programmes within the organisation, through timely processing of material required to be sent to sub-contract repair vendors, expediting as necessary to ensure material is returned to support the programme plan, considering cost, and ensuring quality requirements are met.
Key responsibilities and duties:
- Support the business in its subcontract repair needs
- Carry out order placement and associated activities and proactively expedite the resulting orders.
- Maintain and further supplier relationships
- Ensure that policies and operational practices provide effective repair of products that cannot be repaired inhouse
- Obtain best value for money for services undertaken through effective negotiation with existing or potential suppliers.
- Ensure compliance with internal Financial Authority Regulations
- Monitor supplier performance & manage supplier performance improvement.
- Ongoing monitoring of pricing structures, and establishment of pricing structures where none currently exist
- To continually develop product and supplier market knowledge
- Engage, support and obtain agreement from key stakeholders in respect of Supply agreement implementation
- Liaise with the Commercial and Finance department to ensure the credibility of suppliers.
- Contribute towards maintenance of the Vendor List, including supporting Quality with required documents for setting up and maintaining supplier approvals.
- Carry out transactional activities on Navixa and maintain compliance with policies procedures in the company Business Manual.
- Monitor the performance of current suppliers and the receipting activity and feedback observations to the Supply Chain and Logistics Manager on a regular basis.
- Work with Material Planners to review safety stock and exchange stock, identifying material that should be held within pool stocks to support production plans.
- Cross train with other areas to be able to cover during peaks of work or periods of absence, while maintaining and ensuring adequate levels of support to the business.
Support Material Review Boards (MRBs) to provide suggestions to the Business regarding alternative use of material or possible alternatives, in order to reduce cost or turn time.
Competencies:
Core:
Essential
- High level negotiating skills.
- Numerate and analytical.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to build effective relationships.
- Ability to bring a new dimension to procurement activities and continuous improvement
- Understanding & awareness of Contract Law
Functional:
Essential
- Financial awareness.
- High Degree of Computer literacy
- Highly organised and effective coordinating and planning skills.
Understanding and Awareness of Military & Commercial Aviation regulations
Organisational Relationships:
- Maintain excellent Customer and Supplier relationships.
- Effective stakeholder management (internal and external)
- Ability to work across organisational boundaries and communicate at all levels within the Business.
- Maintain excellent working relationship with all key business and support units.
- Work with Material Planners and Planner/Schedulers to ensure the production plan is kept up to date and material is scheduled and delivered in line with the production plan.
Professional Qualifications/Education and Training:
Essential
- Good IT skills include wide experience of word documents, Excel spreadsheets (including pivot tables and charts) and PowerPoint.
- General commercial awareness.
- Dealing with technical suppliers
CIPS (Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply) qualified and/or equivalent
Experience:
- Previous procurement experience with responsibility for delivery of procurement benefits including financial savings.
- Supply Chain background, with preferred emphasis on technical aspects within an aviation environment.
- Knowledge of procurement tools & techniques.
Benefits that make life better:
- 206 hours annual leave per year for employees working 37 hours per week, plus 8 public holidays
- 4% employer match pension scheme
- YuLife wellbeing services, including 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Program,
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