Job Title:       Program Buyer

Job Type:      Permanent

Industry:       Aerospace

Location:       Gloucestershire

Salary:          £35-45k + Benefits

Profile

My client is a world leader in the design, development and manufacture of key aerospace/aviation equipment. They pride themselves on providing innovative systems which are reliable, robust and cost effective for their clients.

Role

Reporting to the Program Buyer Team Lead, you will be a member of the global commodity team.

The Program Buyer contributes to a high profile global purchasing strategy for a renowned and established program, in conjunction with the Program Buyer Manager and Purchasing Commodity teams.

Duties:

*Acts as an interface between Program, Development teams, Production, Quality, Finance and Purchasing in order to deliver work packages on time, on cost on quality.

*Leads and coordinates all actions to reduce cost for his/her related packages.

*Manages concurrent engineering with suppliers, partners and MD internal functions.

*Ensures that parts are purchased consistently within the defined industrial scheme

*Ensures that Purchasing commodity teams take into account Program objectives, constraints and strategy.

*Ensures compliance with the Purchasing processes.

*Assess and reports the program contractual coverage by all commodities

*Manages, tracks and reports program change and cost of change for purchased parts

*Support Program / Customer meeting, audits and interfaces as required.

*Coordination of the cross-functional team

*Tracks and reports on Roadmap progress

*Tracks and reports on cost evolution & cost reduction activities

*Represents Purchasing during MCB (Modification Control Board) and key program reviews

*Program Supply Chain Risks Register maintenance

*Builds budget for new developments

*Ensures Contract coverage

*Ensures that Concurrent Engineering is done with key suppliers

*Provide data to commodity buyers

 To make an application for this role or to find out more information please contact Mark Davis on mark.davis@omegaresource.co.uk or on 01453829529