Aftermarket Buyer

Safran Cabin Aftermarket Buyer

Local candidates strongly preferred, must be able to work onsite. No relocation benefits. Here, we craft excellence together. Your mission? Making the journey the most enjoyable part of the trip. Join our first-class team to reinvent in-flight experience. In the role of Buyer you'll play a pivotal part on our supply chain team. The Aftermarket Buyer role is unique as it supports critical post-delivery operations by sourcing and procuring aerospace components for spare parts, system upgrades, and maintenance programs.

This position demands a strong familiarity with a broad range of aircraft parts and aftermarket programs, enabling swift response to urgent customer requirements and sustained operational performance. The position plays a key role in sustaining aircraft readiness, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance through agile supply chain coordination and vendor management.

• 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

• 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 Demand and Program Managers 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.

• 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

• Education :
  Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience :
  Minimum of 3+ years of experience in purchasing, preferably in the aerospace or aviation industry.
• Computer Skills : MRP system experience, MS Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Other Skills :
  Strong written and verbal business communications abilities, understanding of engineering principles and ability to interpret technical drawings, self-starter with ability to drive improvement, meet timeliness and objectives, identifying problems working with teams to solve through leading actions collaboratively, ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, high-pressure environment, excellent analytical organizational skills, utilize Excel functions (including VLOOKUP) and PowerPoint for analytical reporting and presentations, coordinate with operations and logistics teams to ensure timely and accurate sourcing of materials, monitor and report on purchasing KPI's, ensuring targets are met and that your deadlines are consistently adhered to, review and adjust planning orders for accuracy, proactively correcting discrepancies to meet customer demands and production schedules, 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

• Certified Procurement Professional (CPP)
• Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)
• Previous experience supporting manufacturing, aerospace preferred
• Ability to read and analyze engineering prints

Does require fluent communication in English. Traveling may be required. Protracted or irregular hours may be required.