Strategic Buyer

A successful market-leading aviation services business require a Strategic Buyer. A commercially focused procurement role, the Strategic Buyer will develop strong relationships with customers and suppliers, developing supply chain capability to support new and existing bids and programmes. An eye-for-detail, strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to spot cost saving opportunities will be integral to success in the role.

The Strategic Buyer will report to a Procurement Manager and be responsible for owning supply chain relationships and performance on a number of high-profile customer programmes.

Specific duties of the Strategic Buyer include:

Evaluate and assess supplier/subcontractor performance; interrogating and analysing pricing data, lead-times, OTIF/OTD, QCD, supply market competitor analysis
Procurement of direct aviation parts, services and associated consumables
Supply Chain Planning and Forecasting prior to going to market with scope o...