NPI Purchasing Lead - Engineering

Location: Pitstone, Buckinghamshire

Salary: Competitive

Skills:

• DFM, DFA, DFX
• Degree in Engineering discipline
• Negotiating
• Strategic
• Influential
• Technical
• Aerospace or Automotive experience

Benefits:

• 8% Bonus
• Excellent Pension
• 33 Days Holiday
• Dental
• BUPA
• EV scheme
• Workplace nursery scheme
• Midday finish on Fridays
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Wellbeing programme
• Employee assistance programme including health and finance
• Onsite subsidised canteen

At Safran, we craft excellence together. As a global leader in aerospace, defence, and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation, and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future. We are looking for passionate individuals to join our Supply Chain team as a NPI Purchasing Lead at our Pitstone site.

We understand that diversity and inclusion make teams stronger and more effective, and as an organisation, we are committed to fair and equitable employment practices for everyone and are proudly a Disability Confident Employer. We encourage anybody to apply if you can demonstrate a variety of skills and experience relevant to the requirements of this role.

Your Role:

You will be accountable for the development and delivery of effective purchasing strategies and supplier readiness for future projects within the exciting electric propulsion systems marketplace for a global leading aerospace organisation. You will play a key role developing and implementing a purchasing strategy to support these new productions from concept, through prototyping and into production.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Purchasing strategy and management of new projects, mainly with suppliers.
• Conduct Purchasing research of new suppliers and technologies that drive the new products into a price and performance competitiveness.
• Lead the Purchasing activities to support these projects using Purchasing tools.
• Keep track of cost, line of balance and ensure material availability for the different builds, following the main Program Schedule.
• Negotiate pricing aligned to the project needs through PPAP, Qualification and ultimately production handover.
• Partner with commodity and industrialisation teams for best supplier selection and contractual flow down.
• Negotiate with identified external supply chain and ensure material cost drivers are understood and visible to the programme teams/engineers.
• Lead all design to cost design for manufacture and design for quality activities to achieve the expected product cost is achieved by the extended supply chain.

What You'll Bring:

Essential:

• Degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent in similar discipline.
• Experience working within an aerospace, automotive or manufacturing environment.
• Strong purchasing and negotiation skills, and good commercial awareness.
• Ability to understand and interpret technical drawings.

Desirable:

• Good working knowledge of SAP.
• Ability to communicate and influence people of varying levels within the organisation.
• Understanding of DFM/DFA/DFX methodology.

If you're ready to take your career to new heights and be part of a company that's crafting the future of flight, apply today.

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