Senior Buyer

Job Title: Senior Buyer

Reports To: Purchasing Manager

Department: Purchasing

Summary:

This position is in our Saginaw, Michigan facility. The below list of duties and responsibilities are not meant to be all-inclusive, and employees may be asked to perform other job-related tasks by their supervisor or manager.

Seeking an Aerospace Strategic Sourcing Engineer who will be responsible for finding suppliers who can provide components and processes to produce complex parts and devices (electromechanical systems) for Aeronautical and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) applications. The person in this position will be a member of the Strategic Procurement Aerospace Team and will participate in cross functional product development and industrialization teams.

Main Responsibilities:

• Collaborates on the development of long-term strategic purchasing plans for various commodities
• Collaborates on the development of cost reduction plans
• Collaborates on cost savings programs, inventory reduction and other strategic projects
• Collaborates with planning to obtain the Capacity Analysis of the supply chain
• Collaborates with the Aerospace Engineering Service, Technical Management, and Supplier Quality to find new potential suppliers for NPI and R&D projects
• Searches for new suppliers and informs Supplier Quality on the need to approve new suppliers
• Participates in commodity risk analysis
• Evaluates suppliers’ core competencies and competitive positioning using cost models
• Conduct negotiations with suppliers
• Updates and processes supply contracts and LTAs (Long Term Agreements)
• Requests, processes, and analyzes RFQs and Quotes
• Participates in continuous improvement projects within the department, implements the recommendations and measures their impact through KPIs
• Develops and maintains partnership relationships with suppliers
• Participates in design-to-cost activities and make-or-buy decisions

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering is preferred
• Min. 5 years of supply chain experience
• Excellent command of English

Specific Skills:

• Good understanding of technical design, bill of material (BOM), materials and processes
• Good Project Management skills
• Familiar with the use of Basic Negotiation Techniques
• Solid knowledge of the Supply Chain process and Strategic Procurement
• Personal Skills
• Ability to work toward objectives
• Excellent Team player
• Aptitude for problem solving
• Outstanding communication and relationship skills

Language, Math, and Reasoning Ability:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, drawings, procedure manuals, set-up sheets, blueprints, government regulations, and technical procedures. Ability to define problems and collect data, establishes facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to understand the speech of another person.Ability to speak clearly so listeners can understand.

Computer Skills:

• Basic operating skills are required.
• Good working knowledges of MRP systems, Excel, and MS-Office

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, bend, twist, stoop. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary
• Benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision, and PTO

About Spark Talent Acquisition:

Spark Talent Acquisition is a Michigan-headquartered recruiting and staffing company that connects great talent with great employers. We understand that finding a new position can be stressful and identifying top talent can be challenging. For us to maximize successful placement and retention, we start by listening to and understanding each of our clients. We believe in face-to-face interaction and having a solid understanding of our client’s business before placement. We pride ourselves in team development as it matches our purpose as an organization to continually create career opportunities.