Buyer

Your Role

As a Buyer, you will play a key role in ensuring Safran has the materials, services and supplier partnerships needed to deliver world-class products. You will support key projects across the business, working with advanced technologies and a diverse supplier base.

Location: Gloucester
\n Working Pattern: Hybrid
\n At Safran, excellence is a journey - and we'd love you to be a part of it. As a trusted global leader in aerospace, defence and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future where we can all succeed through a shared vision.

Key Responsibilities
\n - Work collaboratively within the Purchasing Team to support business strategy
\n - Implement supplier tendering and selection processes
\n - Negotiate and draft contracts with selected suppliers
\n - Steer industrialisation and digitalisation in line with Group CSR strategy
\n - Consolidate supplier assessments (quality, logistics, purchasing)
\n - Drive supplier improvement action plans to enhance performance and reduce costs
\n - Manage supplier relationships and ensure contractual compliance
\n - Maintain accurate purchasing data in internal systems
\n - Proactively resolve disputes and manage evolving needs
\n - Promote best practices across your supplier portfolio
\n - Support the Category Manager and coordinate actions where required
\n - Support source start-up processes
\n - Ensure compliance with laws, regulations and Safran internal standards

Essential
\n - Knowledge of purchasing methodologies and processes
\n - Proficiency in written and spoken English
\n - Strong numerical skills
\n - Highly organised, structured approach and able to work using own initiative
\n - Focused, task-oriented and resilient
\n - Strong communication, listening and negotiation abilities
\n - Understanding of Safran's technical environment
\n - Knowledge of industrial and purchasing policies, including contract law
\n - Familiarity with Lean-Sigma tools
\n - Previous experience within a purchasing team using purchasing information systems
\n Desirable
\n - Project management experience
\n - Business Administration qualifications or similar
\n - Customer Service training
\n - CIPS qualifications

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