Senior Program Purchasing Lead; H​/F

Position: Senior Program Purchasing Lead (H/F)
Location: Whitby Region (Gormley)

Safran est un groupe international de haute technologie opérant dans les domaines de l'aéronautique (propulsion, équipements et intérieurs), de l'espace et de la défense. Sa mission : contribuer durablement à un monde plus sûr, où le transport aérien devient toujours plus respectueux de l'environnement, plus confortable et plus accessible. Implanté sur tous les continents, le Groupe emploie 110 000 collaborateurs pour un chiffre d'affaires de 31,3 milliards d'euros en 2025, et occupe, seul ou en partenariat, des positions de premier plan mondial ou européen sur ses marchés.

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Descriptif mission

Act as the senior Purchasing focal point within the Integrated Program Team (IPT) for a program or program family covering Build-to-Print (BTP), Build-to-Specification (BTS), systems, equipment, services, and related recurring

Provide cross functional leadership, coordination, and guidance to Program Purchasing team members, establishing priorities, allocating activities, resolving conflicts, and ensuring consistent execution across the full program scope.

Ensure Program, Production, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Purchasing strategies and priorities are fully aligned, clearly communicated, and respected by all relevant stakeholders.

Represent Program Purchasing in key program governance meetings, executive reviews, escalations, supplier reviews providing clear recommendations and decision ready information.

Coordinate closely with Purchasing Site Leaders, Commodity Managers, Commodity Buyers, and Industrialization Leads, and other functions to ensure timely completion of Purchasing deliverables.

Establish and maintain effective Program Purchasing governance, routines, and ways of working, including regular progress reviews, action tracking, prioritization, and escalation paths.

Prepare, maintain, and drive Program Purchasing documentation and management tools, including the Program Purchasing Plan, Purchasing Roadmap, integrated activity plan, dashboards, cost models, risk registers, and program overviews.

Lead the Purchasing contribution to bids, estimates, and program financial reviews. Ensure recurring cost (RC) and non-recurring cost (NRC) targets, budgets, assumptions, supplier quotations, contractual coverage, and cost evolution are accurate, current, and aligned with the Program and Commodity Purchasing teams.

Coordinate Purchasing activities through major program milestones, from bid and supplier selection through development, industrialization, certification, production ramp-up, and in-service support.

Ensure customer, technical, contractual, quality, cybersecurity, export control and logistical requirements are understood and flowed down to Purchasing teams and suppliers as applicable.

Drive procurement schedule performance, including RFQ launch and quotation receipt, supplier selection, contractualization, purchase-order placement,…