OSP Buyer in Hampshire

Currently located in Titchfield, Hampshire, Eaton's Aerospace business stands as a global leader in aerospace fuel systems. Our site is undergoing a significant and exciting transformation as we relocate to a newly constructed facility in Daedalus. This state‑of‑the‑art site will serve as the Centre of Excellence for aerospace manufacturing across Europe, marking a new era of innovation and excellence. We pride ourselves as a premier supplier of fully integrated fuel systems for fixed and rotary‑wing aircraft. We boast extensive fuel and air system test facilities, facilitating comprehensive testing across a range of conditions with various fuel types.

What You’ll Do

The position focuses on purchases for indirect material and services from major suppliers, strategic commodities, and multiple locations. The position manages the assigned indirect material supply base for Titchfield to ensure uninterrupted supply at optimum cost, quality, and service for each site. Must be dedicated to maintaining strategic relationships and creating new ones within the supply base. Maintains an essential balance between supplier quality, delivery expectations, and cost reduction metrics for all indirect material purchases. Champion the assigned supply chain driven metrics and tracking for the Aerospace Business.

Critical Outputs

• Manages indirect material supplier relationships and opportunities for cost‑out and product/supplier improvement, while ensuring adequate service levels are met.
• Acts and applies skillful negotiations with internal and external suppliers; conducts problem resolution and settles disputes; develops win‑win solutions, and creates positive relations with tact and expert judgment.
• Identifies opportunities and ensures compliance to existing corporate indirect material supply contracts for the assigned sites, increases supply chain managed spend, cost reductions, and category leverage.
• Monitors new supplier add requests and consolidates the current or new diverse supply base spend into leveraged spend categories and contracts.

Essential Functions:

• Manages and maintains all assigned current supplier contacts, business relationships and commercial responsibilities for the assigned sites.
• Develops and helps facilitate cost‑out projects and commodity strategic actions, while assisting the corporate indirect material commodity teams implement projects for the sites assigned.
• Facilitates supplier questions on accounts payables and supports any necessary activity for disposition of invoice resolutions and/or payment issues.
• Facilitates cross‑functional collaboration with others to identify new areas of opportunity and achieve the greatest outcomes in support of SCM strategic goals and initiatives.
• Develop applicable skills in supply chain processes, and gain experience in analyzing and interpreting total cost management drivers when developing cost‑out sourcing strategies.

Qualifications

• 2+ years’ experience working within a supply chain or material management function, desirably within Aerospace.

Skills

• Possesses expert knowledge and experience in successfully developing commodity strategies, deploying sourcing initiatives, and project managing cost‑out and supplier improvement programs.
• Shows track records for demonstrating leadership, and thinking and acting strategically.
• Demonstrated experience with commodity products and suppliers.
• Excellent communication, customer service, and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, operations, SCM personnel, and external suppliers.
• Knowledgeable on ERP system operations, functions, and interfaces.
• Enterprise reporting systems and data mining.
• Skilled in Microsoft office applications, heavily influenced on Excel.
• Knowledgeable of commercial terms, practices, contract terms and conditions in the corporate setting.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• Great company benefits
• We make your aspirations matter – Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible
• We make your growth matter – We invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University
• We make your contributions matter – reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people’s lives and the through power management technologies
• We make your wellbeing matter – We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it’s about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen.

The successful applicant will be in contact with US ITAR controlled technology, goods and information. As a condition of employment, employees with access to US ITAR controlled technology and goods may be required to undergo an additional screening process as part of the recruitment process. All positions may require participation in video and in‑person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job‑related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.