Location: Denham Salary: Highly competitive salary and benefits package Application Deadline: Monday, April 14, 2025 Job Summary What you’ll be doing Martin-Baker is the world’s leading manufacturer of ejection seats, helping to protect aircrew in the world’s most advanced military aircraft. Our mission is simple - to save aircrew lives. Join us on this mission as a Senior Buyer within the Indirect Sourcing department, based in Denham. You’ll join a highly professional team which has built a strong reputation for building winning relationships with suppliers and stakeholders at Martin-Baker. You’ll be responsible for sourcing and purchasing indirect materials and services, supporting Environmental Test, Seat Test, Programmes and Inspection functions. Key aspects of the role include strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, vendor management, internal stakeholder management and ensuring compliance with budgetary guidelines. You’ll collaborate with various internal departments and colleagues to identify sourcing requirements, streamline processes, and enhance operational efficiencies. This is an exciting time to join Martin-Baker and make an impact. As a Senior Buyer, you'll be the primary point of contact for suppliers, managing supplier relationships including performance against KPI indicators, proactively identifying and managing risks (of materials and parts); identifying new suppliers via tendering and performing RFO exercises. Contract management including reviewing key contract clauses, working internally with MBA legal team to ensure that risk is mitigated. You'll support colleagues across several functions including Environmental Test, Seat Test, Inspection, Programmes, Engineering Metrology and X-Ray, working in conjunction with Commodity Managers to research and evaluate suppliers, actively ensuring that products, services and materials are supplied to the required technical quality standards. Further aspects of the role include generating and maintaining supplier data using internal systems to support finance and governance processes and complying with sourcing policies. You’ll build winning relationships with suppliers to identify bottlenecks, problems and solutions. The future of engineering and manufacturing is changing. To future-proof your career Martin-Baker will always keep investing in your development. That’s a long-term promise. Because we want to learn from you, so keeping your skills up to date is important to us, and important for our future. We’re after people who are curious and enjoy solving problems. Characteristics
Senior Buyer (Indirect Sourcing Team) - Environmental Test, Seat Test,Inspection & Programmes [...] employer: Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd
Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Ltd is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Denham where innovation meets dedication. Employees benefit from a strong focus on professional development, a culture of continuous improvement, and the opportunity to contribute to life-saving technologies. With a commitment to health and safety, as well as a supportive team atmosphere, this role not only promises meaningful work but also fosters personal and career growth.
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