Meggitt is a global engineering group specializing in extreme environment products and smart sub-systems for aerospace, defense and energy markets. We employ over 11,000 people across manufacturing facilities in Asia, Europe, North America, with regional bases in India and the Middle East.

Role Summary

This position is responsible for managing and supporting both NPI and Operational procurement. The role will consist of creating the weekly supplier schedule reports, securing acknowledgements from the sub-suppliers, maintaining MRP records accordingly and expediting all parts to ensure we deliver to the system dates, monitoring / reporting allocated performance KPI's. Obtaining quotations, raising purchase orders, maintaining the costing databases and supporting the overall purchasing function with ongoing projects.
It is expected that the buyer will have knowledge & experience of working with, managing and developing suppliers to support the current & future business needs. As a buyer it is also expected that they will be experienced in reducing / eliminating risk and ensuring continuity of parts supply from sub-suppliers identifying cost reduction opportunities that support the direct and indirect cost reduction targets. Experience of framework agreements (LTA) and the ability to understand and interpret engineering drawings is advantageous.

Core Responsibilities

• Working closely with engineering on NPI projects
• Creating the weekly supplier schedule reports
• Securing acknowledgements from the sub-suppliers
• Maintaining MRP records
• Expediting all parts to ensure we hit the system dates
• Obtaining quotations, raising po's and supporting the purchasing function with projects
• Working with suppliers to support the current & future business needs
• Reducing risk and ensuring continuity of parts supply from sub-suppliers
• Identifying cost reduction opportunities
• Liaise with production to arrange sub contract operations as required
• Investigating and resolving invoice queries

Skills, Experience & Capabilities

• Strong purchasing background
• Knowledge and experience within supply chain, a successful track record of negotiating with a variety of suppliers, using different approaches & methodologies
• Good Risk management mindset, proactive in identifying and dealing with potential business risks
• Experienced in procuring parts from commodity suppliers & also specialist manufacturers making customs parts or those suppliers providing specialist services
• Proactively seeking opportunities for the business to reduce cost & lead-time
• Organized & professional individual
• Good interpersonal and communication skills with ability to drive tasks to completion
• Experience of managing expectations of multiple stakeholders
• Proficient in using an ERP System or similar system