Senior Buyer Indirect

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity set the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet.

Senior Buyer Indirect

Job Summary

Negotiation and implementation of country-specific corporate contracts for GKN Aerospace. Implement commodity strategies, developed by Category Managers, which leverage GKN Aerospace’s spend to deliver significant annual improvements in cost and service levels. Coordinate implementation of contracts through the P2P function at sites and manage compliance. Work with cross-functional stakeholder teams to identify business needs and implement supporting contracts.

Job Responsibilities

• Accountable for delivery of the targeted savings identified as part of annual planning reviews to improve bottom line profitability of GKN Aerospace.
• Negotiate contracts not covered by regional/global strategies where leverage opportunities are identified within country/area of responsibility.
• Contribute to ongoing development of Aerospace commodity strategy for areas of responsibility.
• Actively participate in stakeholder teams within country/area of responsibility to deliver improvements in contracts (cost, performance, quality) for GKN Aerostructures.
• Work with all layers of the GKN Aerospace organisation to communicate and gain buy-in/support to commodity strategies.
• Provide analysis and information to senior management on plans and benefits of actions.
• Lead key negotiation activities with senior-level representatives of suppliers to deliver benefits to the business.
• Establish data/fact-driven analysis of potential opportunities for procurement activities.
• Manage Requests for Proposal / auction activities within commodities across country/area of responsibility.
• Work with sites to ensure compliance to corporate contracts.
• Contribute to the development of commodity budgets/forecasts and liaise with sites to embed locally.

Job Qualifications

• Knowledge of procurement activities within commodities of responsibility.
• Knowledge of supply markets for relevant commodities.
• Extensive negotiation experience and skills.
• Strong communication skills.
• Minimum of 3 years indirect commodity experience, with 2–3 years in the aerospace industry preferred.
• Ability to engage stakeholders across other functions/sites.
• Good analytical skills.
• Experience of working within a cross-site, cross-function environment.
• Willingness to challenge the status quo to find benefits/opportunities.

What’s in it for you?

Besides an innovative and international work environment that offers you a good work-life balance, we offer opportunities to learn and grow, a competitive salary, pension plan, 29 vacation days / 13 ADV days, and travel allowance (from 10 km single journey) as well.