NPI Buyer

Overview

In this role you will lead the sourcing and purchasing for New Product Introduction programmes, coordinating multiple vendors and cross-functional teams from concept to production handover. You enable early supplier engagement, design-for-manufacture, and robust supplier selection to support Safran’s NPI roadmap. You will drive QCD targets while aligning supplier activity with future product roadmaps in an aerospace context. This is a fast-paced opportunity to shape how we scale new technologies.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Excellent Pension and bonus scheme
• 33 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
• Dental and BUPA cover
• Workplace nursery scheme
• Wellbeing programme

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple vendors & projects simultaneously
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and liaise with multiple sites on multi-site programs
• Coordinate sourcing activity and align commodity strategies with supplier selection and product roadmap
• Promote and deploy Design for Manufacture with early supplier engagement across NPI phases
• Challenge design requirements to control scope and prevent over-engineering
• Create and close RFQ/RFP packages with supplier panels
• Perform risk analysis to resolve supply issues and meet commitments
• Negotiate and report on Quality, Cost, Delivery targets and ensure compliance with Safran quality requirements

Key requirements

• Purchasing/sourcing experience in a manufacturing environment
• Strong commercial awareness
• Proven negotiation and supplier liaison experience
• Ability to influence across engineering, design and manufacturing functions
• Excellent interpersonal skills across functions and seniority
• Motivation to learn and perform in a fast-paced prototyping environment
• Experience with metrics and data presentations, strong written and verbal communication

• cross-functional collaboration
• negotiation
• communication
• purchasing/sourcing in manufacturing
• RFQ/RFP management
• Design for Manufacture (DFM) engagement

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