Procurement Engineer

Location: Freckleton

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work for BAE Systems at their Warton site as a Procurement Engineer within their Air Sector. This role will work as part of a busy team of 10 people, we are looking for someone pro-active with excellent negotiation skills.

Key duties will include;
- Develop and maintain supplier relationships, manage supplier performance and improvement activities.
- Manage the order book, including raising orders, resolving queries, maintaining forecast dates, enabling payment of invoices.
- Develop and maintain relationships with internal customers.
- Working closely with other functions across the business to manage the order book.

You will also be involved in;
- Raising orders from requisitions
- Managing order book update calls with suppliers
- Managing payment plans and order book data on the Purchasing Systems (EMS POM and INFOR LN)
- Attending customer calls and providing updates
- Clearing queries to get goods booked in
- Processing Certificates of Achievement and invoices to payment
- All the above tasks are measurable and monitored against internal KPIs.

The job holder will have previous procurement experience, ideally working within the manufacturing sector. Previous experience with ERP/MRP systems and reporting toolsets (Infor LN & Tableau) would be an advantage.

Good communication skills are essential to provide effective stakeholder management as well as tenacity in problem solving. A high level of Microsoft office skills is also required with a particular focus on Excel (V/Xlookups, Pivot Tables, Conditional Formatting, etc.)

This is a full time role working 37 hours a week with 3 days a week required on site, but workload may require ad-hoc additional days.

If you are interested in this opportunity please get in touch.

Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.

Buyer; vendor management; supply chain; procurement; purchasing; supplier management; risk management; negotiation; supplier performance; purchase orders; ERP systems; MS Office; influencing skills; shipping; ITAR; spares and repairs; RFQ; invoicing; SAP;
Order book management, Infor LN, Tableau