Senior Specialist, Procurement

About Acron Aviation (Avionics - Aftermarket):

Acron Aviation designs, engineers, and manufactures certified avionics systems that support safety-critical flight operations across commercial and military aviation. Our avionics portfolio includes surveillance, recorders, displays, and related systems developed in regulated environments and deployed on aircraft worldwide. Through our Aftermarket organization, we support operators, OEMs, and maintenance providers by delivering technical expertise, product support, reliability improvements, and lifecycle sustainment solutions that maximize system availability and customer value.

This work requires close collaboration across engineering, operations, quality, and customer support teams to ensure safe, reliable, and effective in-service performance.

At Acron our ambition is to relentlessly reimagine and reshape the value chains by which we deliver results to our customers, suppliers, and internal/external stakeholder communities in pursuit of innovations to creating safer skies. Acron employees strive to achieve world-class results through our values of always putting our customers first, displaying ownership of our results, moving fast and speaking candidly. We currently seek a Procurement Specialist that thrives in complex cross functional environments and is highly skilled in the application of planning and purchasing fundamentals, continuous improvement, supplier engagement and team building processes to achieve our vision.

This position is part of the Acron Avionics Business Unit and will be located in Grand Rapids, MI. This role requires the selected candidate to work on site during first shift hours.

We are seeking a dynamic, high-energy Procurement Specialist to plan and procure direct materials required to support aerospace manufacturing operations. This role manages end-to-end purchasing including MRP-driven order execution, PO change management, supplier performance management, inventory optimization, cost containment, and data analytics to ensure materials arrive on time and meet all quality and technical specifications. Candidates should bring deep expertise in ERP materials management tools, advanced analytical capabilities, and experience in a high-mix, high-complexity aerospace environment.

Acron’s Suppliers our viewed as extensions of our internal factory which requires candidates to possess strong collaboration and communications to build sustainable business partnerships.

The ideal candidate is a transformational Procurement Specialist driven to reinforce cultures of excellence with demonstrated and sustained experience in Lean principles and continuous improvement methodologies. Acron seeks candidates who can influence and drive problem solving disciplines and operational excellence across the end-to-end value stream while maintaining accountability for delivering to the MRP and ensuring our plans are operating realities.

• Material Planning & Procurement Execution
• Execute purchase orders for direct materials based on MRP signals, forecasting, and production requirements. Manage action/exception messages in ERP system
• Ensure supply continuity by proactively identifying shortages, expediting when necessary, and adjusting orders according to changing schedules

• Maintain accurate and complete SAP material master data, purchasing info records, and vendor data
• Supplier Relationship & Performance Management
• Manage daily communications with suppliers; drive on time delivery, corrective action requests, and regular performance reviews
• Participate in supplier selection, qualification, set-up in SAP and development activities in partnership with Quality and Supply Chain leadership
• Resolve supply chain…