Aftermarket Buyer

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 Aftermarket Buyer 2 you'll play a pivotal part on our purchasing team. The Safran growth strategy centers on three imperatives: growing company market share, customer satisfaction and achieving operational excellence.

The Aftermarket Buyer 2 role is responsible for acquiring goods and services at a competitive price, ensuring that goods are of top quality, and facilitating delivery of goods via issuance and management of a purchase order. The role also analyzes demand and plans supply, ensures efficient execution of requirements and purchasing actions, manages supplier delivery, quality, cost performance and improvement.

• Manages complex supplier accounts, requiring advanced knowledge of commodity, supply base, and program.
• Responds to urgent customer requirements and sustains operational performance.
• Maintains aircraft readiness, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance through agile supply chain coordination and vendor management.
• Act as authorized agent of the company, making financial commitments and managing key supplier relationships to ensure supply chain performance.
• Provides peer review and oversight to junior Purchasing Agents.
• Makes daily purchases and inputs into MRP system based on demand, while analyzing quality, specifications and delivery requirements.
• Ensures just‑in‑time supply aligns with loaded demand to maintain inventory targets.
• Solicits quotations for non‑contracted items and negotiates best price.
• Interfaces with planning and purchasing Demand and Program Managers to flow down schedule or requirement changes to suppliers.
• Reviews purchase orders and follows up on unconfirmed orders, past‑due items, etc.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 3 years of purchasing experience, preferably in the aerospace or aviation industry.
• MRP system experience.
• MS Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint).
• Strong written and verbal business communication abilities.
• Understanding of engineering principles and ability to interpret technical drawings.
• Self‑starter who drives improvement, meets timeliness and objectives.
• Problem‑solving skills, teamwork, and collaborative action.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast‑paced, high‑pressure environment.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Proficiency with Excel functions (VLOOKUP, etc.) and PowerPoint for reporting.
• Ability to coordinate with operations and logistics teams to source materials on time.
• Ability to monitor and report on purchasing KPIs and meet targets.
• Ability to adjust planning orders to correct discrepancies.
• Experience applying supply‑chain expertise to contemporary environments.
• Strong negotiation, influence, and decision‑making skills.
• Customer‑service orientation.

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

• All employees have an affirmative duty to protect and maintain the confidentiality of Safran’s products.
• As business conditions change, all employees must react productively and handle other essential tasks as assigned.
• Duties may vary slightly based on products produced at division.
• Listed duties are not exhaustive; the company may modify responsibilities as needed to meet business and organizational needs.

This job posting has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group.