Buyer 2

Job Summary:
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.

Summary of Duties:
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 solid working 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

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.
Your Career: Safran is committed to providing internal mobility to our employees. We operate globally so the sky is the limit of where your Safran journey can take you.
Your Development: Safran employees have free access to Safran University courses and external tuition reimbursement for approved programs or certifications.
Your Benefits: Our suite of comprehensive benefits include health care (medical, dental and vision), life insurance, 401(k) savings plans with company match, paid time off, Safran Perks with BenefitHub – Employee Discounts & Rewards Marketplace for consumer products/services and more!

Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Experience: Minimum 3 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