OVERVIEW
COMPANY NAME: Safran Cabin
JOB TITLE: Buyer Level 3
SITE LOCATION: Santa Maria, CA
# OF OPENINGS: 1
START DATES: TBD (open ended assignment)
COMPENSATION / SCHEDULE
Weekly Pay (on 40 hours) / PACKAGE RATE: Direct Hire
ST: 75 -80K
OT: X
PD: TBD
TRAINING:
BONUS: N/A
WORK SCHEDULE: First
Overtime: N/A
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSIDERATION
Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Experience: Minimum 6 years of supply chain/purchasing/sourcing experience
Computer Skills:
Week 1 – Responsibilities / Expectations / Culture / Environment
JOB DESCRIPTION – FORMATTED TO BE SHARABLE
Team Leadership
Role Assignment
Purchasing Execution
Supplier Management
COMPANY NAME: Safran Cabin
JOB TITLE: Buyer Level 3
SITE LOCATION: Santa Maria, CA
# OF OPENINGS: 1
START DATES: TBD (open ended assignment)
COMPENSATION / SCHEDULE
Weekly Pay (on 40 hours) / PACKAGE RATE: Direct Hire
ST: 75 -80K
OT: X
PD: TBD
TRAINING:
BONUS: N/A
WORK SCHEDULE: First
Overtime: N/A
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSIDERATION
Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Experience: Minimum 6 years of supply chain/purchasing/sourcing experience
Computer Skills:
- MRP system experience
- MS Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong written and verbal business communications abilities
- Self-starter with ability to drive improvement, meet timeliness and objectives
- Identifying problems working with teams to solve through leading actions collaboratively
- Ability to analyze and communicate requirements
- Ability to apply Supply Chain past experience to current environment and modify as needed.
- Ability to negotiate, influence, and win respect
- Ability to make timely decisions and take action
- Ability to provide information regarding tasks, plans, schedule and strategy to stakeholders.
- Customer service oriented
- Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain or program management
- Previous experience supporting manufacturing, aerospace preferred
- Ability to read and analyze engineering prints
Week 1 – Responsibilities / Expectations / Culture / Environment
JOB DESCRIPTION – FORMATTED TO BE SHARABLE
Team Leadership
- Point of escalation to material issues that require attention and present a risk for the buyers to successfully execute the procurement process to meet the required demand dates
- Coaches, trains, and mentors junior Purchasing Agents
- Identify and manage special projects and teams, as required
- Assist in the continuous improvement of the Purchasing organization
Role Assignment
- Acts as authorized agent of the company, making financial commitments and managing key supplier relationships to ensure supply chain performance
- Manages complex supplier accounts, requiring advanced knowledge of commodity, supply base, and program
- Responsible for key suppliers, significant spend, and challenging supply chain problem resolution
- Provides peer review and oversight to junior Purchasing Agents
- Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter
Purchasing Execution
- Make daily purchases and input into MRP system based on demand, while analyzing the quality, specifications, and delivery requirements
- Ensure just in time supply aligns with loaded demand to maintain inventory targets
- Send out quotations for bid on non-contracted items, and negotiate best price
- Interface with planning and purchasing Integrated Program Team (IPT) to ensure any changes in schedule or requirements are flowed down to suppliers
- Review purchase orders regularly and follow up on unconfirmed orders, past due items, etc.
Supplier Management
- Generate effective communication, good relationships, and a positive image with suppliers, promoting courtesy, objectivity, and fairness
- Act as authorized agent of the company and primary contact to assigned suppliers
- Proactively manage suppliers and regularly assess performance to ensure on-time delivery of quality product
- Manage program shortages and ensure supplier commitments are communicated to IPT Lead
- Review non-conformance reports (NCRs) against supplier product and communicate and coordinate disposition
- Identifies and mitigates risk, solves problems, and escalates as needed to IPT Lead and/or Purchasing Manager