Buyer

Job DescriptionYour RoleAs a Buyer, you will play a key role in ensuring Safran has the materials, services and supplier partnerships needed to deliver world-class products. You will support key projects across the business, working with advanced technologies and a diverse supplier base.Location: Gloucester
Working Pattern: Hybrid
At Safran, excellence is a journey - and we'd love you to be a part of it. As a trusted global leader in aerospace, defence and space, we are proud to be a company where diversity, innovation and opportunity come together to shape a sustainable future where we can all succeed through a shared vision.Key Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively within the Purchasing Team to support business strategy
- Implement supplier tendering and selection processes
- Negotiate and draft contracts with selected suppliers
- Steer industrialisation and digitalisation in line with Group CSR strategy
- Consolidate supplier assessments (quality, logistics, purchasing)
- Drive supplier improvement action plans to enhance performance and reduce costs
- Manage supplier relationships and ensure contractual compliance
- Maintain accurate purchasing data in internal systems
- Proactively resolve disputes and manage evolving needs
- Promote best practices across your supplier portfolio
- Support the Category Manager and coordinate actions where required
- Support source start-up processes
- Ensure compliance with laws, regulations and Safran internal standards

Knowledge of purchasing methodologies and processes
- Proficiency in written and spoken English
- Strong numerical skills
- Highly organised, structured approach and able to work using own initiative
- Focused, task-oriented and resilient
- Strong communication, listening and negotiation abilities
- Understanding of Safran's technical environment
- Knowledge of industrial and purchasing policies, including contract law
- Familiarity with Lean-Sigma tools
- Previous experience within a purchasing team using purchasing information systems
Desirable
- Project management experience
- Business Administration qualifications or similar
- Customer Service training
- CIPS qualificationsJBRP1_UKTJ