Buyer

Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for additional Buyers to join our growing supply chain team. This role will be based across our Staverton site. Ontic is more than just a business; we are a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We are committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.

The Role: As a buyer, you will be responsible for quality, cost and delivery performance for allocated suppliers, ensuring the purchased parts and/or services are supplied on time to support OE production and spares requirements in line with business system needs. You will also be required to support the internal MRO spares requirements directly or via 3rd party distribution contracts. You will be required to lead specific supplier relationships, manage the introduction of new suppliers with the support of the SQA team, assess and manage the supply risks by identifying and implementing countermeasures to mitigate or eliminate the risk of supply.

Key Responsibilities:

• Schedule, place and manage all purchasing documentation including, but not limited to, design data packs, request for quotations and purchase orders to support the business material demand and meet business financial budget.
• Attend internal supply meetings as and when required to support Value Stream forecasts and customer demand reviews.
• Ensure design data revisions are up to date with suppliers.
• Manage Open Order Book in collaboration with suppliers and production planning.
• Maintain Supplier manufacturing lead-times within business system.
• Project and communicate cost variances, positive or negative, and deliver opportunities for total cost of acquisition reduction suggestions and plans to support business financial budgets.
• Resolve invoice queries with accounts payable team.
• Organise and lead supplier business reviews to review and address supplier performance.
• Maintain good working relationships with SQA team.
• Collaborate across all business teams and encourage/present positive supply chain working relationships with key stakeholders.
• Undertake supplier site visits as and when required.

About you: At Ontic, our culture is integral to making sure we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skillset, we are also looking for someone who will thrive within our recognition and empowerment culture. To be successful in this role, you'll need to have experience working within a purchasing role previously, ideally within a manufacturing environment.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Excellent negotiation, organisational and communication skills.
• Commercially minded with an ability to deliver "outside of the box" solutions to commercial problems.
• Positive can-do attitude.
• Total cost of acquisition analytical skills desirable.
• Strong IT skills, including working knowledge of MS office and ERP systems (Visual and/or Syteline preferred but not essential).
• Ability to be self-motivated and a confident decision maker within business approval guidelines.
• Capability to work independently and as part of a team cross-functionally and within the function demonstrating respect and understanding.

Benefits: At Ontic, we care about your financial, physical, and mental wellness so we offer a range of benefits to support this. We care about what matters to you and have a valued culture of recognition and empowerment, accompanied by benefits that support work/life balance. Our benefits package highlights include:

• Up to 29 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays.
• 10 hours paid volunteering time.
• Annual goal share bonus scheme for all employees.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Discounts and offers from a range of retailers.

Best place to work: We are more than the sum of our parts. And we have been recognised internally and externally for being so: We were ranked #9 in Best Companies' Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback. 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic. No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Our values: Our values are intrinsic to everything we do: We share a common sense - we are a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision. We have the freedom to choose - we are challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo. We create the opportunity - we are change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit. We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!