Buyer 3
Company: Safran
Location: Garden Grove
Posted on: May 20, 2023
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Job Description:
The Safran growth strategy centers on three imperatives: growing
company market share, customer satisfaction and achieving
operational excellence. The buyer role is responsible for acquiring
goods and services at a competitive price, ensuring that goods are
of top quality, and facilitating delivery of goods via the issuance
and management of a purchase order. Analyzes demand and plans
supply in accordance, ensures efficient and quality execution of
requirements and purchasing action messages, manages supplier
delivery, quality, and cost performance and improvement.
Are you passionate about technology or aviation? Come invent the
solutions of tomorrow in the aerospace and defense industry, with
an international group where innovation, teamwork and continuing,
daily education are fundamental values. Join us!
Team Leadership
---Point of escalation to material issues that require attention
and present a risk for the buyers to successfully execute the
procurement process to meet the required demand dates
---Coaches, trains, and mentors junior Purchasing Agents
---Identify and manage special projects and teams, as required
---Assist in the continuous improvement of the Purchasing
organization
Role Assignment
---Acts as authorized agent of the company, making financial
commitments and managing key supplier relationships to ensure
supply chain performance
---Manages complex supplier accounts, requiring advanced knowledge
of commodity, supply base, and program
---Responsible for key suppliers, significant spend, and
challenging supply chain problem resolution
---Provides peer review and oversight to junior Purchasing
Agents
---Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter
Purchasing Execution
---Make daily purchases and input into MRP system based on demand,
while analyzing the quality, specifications, and delivery
requirements
---Ensure just in time supply aligns with loaded demand to maintain
inventory targets
---Send out quotations for bid on non-contracted items, and
negotiate best price
---Interface with planning and purchasing Integrated Program Team
(IPT) to ensure any changes in schedule or requirements are flowed
down to suppliers
---Review purchase orders regularly and follow up on unconfirmed
orders, past due items, etc.
Supplier Management
---Generate effective communication, good relationships, and a
positive image with suppliers, promoting courtesy, objectivity, and
fairness
---Act as authorized agent of the company and primary contact to
assigned suppliers
---Proactively manage suppliers and regularly assess performance to
ensure on-time delivery of quality product
---Manage program shortages and ensure supplier commitments are
communicated to IPT Lead
---Review non-conformance reports (NCRs) against supplier product
and communicate and coordinate disposition
---Identifies and mitigates risk, solves problems, and escalates as
needed to IPT Lead and/or Purchasing Manager.
Additional description
---All employees have an affirmative duty to protect and maintain
the confidentiality of Safran's products.
---As business conditions change it is necessary that all employees
productively react and handle other essential tasks as assigned now
or in the future.
---Tasks may vary slightly based on products produced at
division.
---Duties listed above are not intended to be an exhaustive list of
all duties and responsibilities required. The company may modify
responsibilities as needed to meet business and organizational
needs.
Safran Cabin headquarters are in Huntington Beach, California, with
a global presence of over 10,000 employees at 39 sites. Site
locations are in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Canada,
Germany, France, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Tunisia and
Thailand. SAFRAN Cabin serves over 400 airlines and leasing
companies globally and delivers to all airframe OEM manufacturers
with a heritage spanning over 80 years in the industry.
Safran's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goes beyond our
facility walls. We value and support the communities where we live
and work. One of Safran's values and CSR pillar is Corporate
Citizenship that helps drive economic, social and cultural progress
by sharing our gifts with those around us.
The expected salary range for this position is between $64,500 -
$100,760 USD. Actual compensation will be determined based on
experience, education, and other factors permitted by law.
Travel specifictity
May require some travel.
Candidate skills & requirements
Experience: Minimum of 6 years of supply chain/purchasing/sourcing
experience
Computer Skills:
---MRP system experience
---MS Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint)
Other Skills:
---Strong written and verbal business communications abilities
---Self-starter with ability to drive improvement, meet timeliness
and objectives
---Identifying problems working with teams to solve through leading
actions collaboratively
---Ability to analyze and communicate requirements
---Ability to apply Supply Chain past experience to current
environment and modify as needed.
---Ability to negotiate, influence, and win respect
---Ability to make timely decisions and take action
---Ability to provide information regarding tasks, plans, schedule
and strategy to stakeholders.
---Customer service oriented
Additional Preferred Skills: (not required)
---Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain or program
management
---Previous experience supporting manufacturing, aerospace
preferred
---Ability to read and analyze engineering prints
At Safran, diversity & inclusion is a source of richness that adds
quality of life, performance, and innovation. We welcome diverse
contributions and provide equal employment opportunity to all
individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual
orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital status,
pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability/medical
condition, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic
characteristics or information, or any other characteristic
protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Annual salary
64,500 - 100,760
Job location
Job location
North America, United States, California
City (-ies)
Garden Grove
Applicant criteria
Minimum education level achieved
Bachelor's Degree
Minimum experience level required
More than 5 years
Additional Languages preferred
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