Aftermarket Buyer 2
Safran Cabin Inc.
Garden Grove, California
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JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$70,310–$101,090
LOCATION
Garden Grove, California
POSTED
7 days ago
Here, we craft excellence together. Your mission? Making the journey the most enjoyable part of the trip.
Join our first-class team to reinvent in-flight experience. In the role of Aftermarket Buyer 2 you'll play a pivotal part on our Planning team.
The Aftermarket Buyer role is unique as it supports critical post-delivery operations by sourcing and procuring aerospace components for spare parts, system upgrades, and maintenance programs. This position demands a strong familiarity with a broad range of aircraft parts and aftermarket programs, enabling swift response to urgent customer requirements and sustained operational performance. The position plays a key role in sustaining aircraft readiness, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance through agile supply chain coordination and vendor management.
Join our first-class team to reinvent in-flight experience. In the role of Aftermarket Buyer 2 you'll play a pivotal part on our Planning team.
The Aftermarket Buyer role is unique as it supports critical post-delivery operations by sourcing and procuring aerospace components for spare parts, system upgrades, and maintenance programs. This position demands a strong familiarity with a broad range of aircraft parts and aftermarket programs, enabling swift response to urgent customer requirements and sustained operational performance. The position plays a key role in sustaining aircraft readiness, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance through agile supply chain coordination and vendor management.
- Acts as authorized agent of the company, making financial commitments and managing key supplier relationships to ensure supply chain performance.
- Manages complex supplier accounts, requiring advanced knowledge of commodity, supply base, and program.
- Responsible for key suppliers, significant spend, and challenging supply chain problem resolution.
- Provides peer review and oversight to junior Purchasing Agents.
- Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter Supplier Management Purchasing Execution.
- Make daily purchases and input into MRP system based on demand, while analyzing the quality, specifications, and delivery requirements.
- Ensure just in time supply aligns with loaded demand to maintain inventory targets.
- Send out quotations for bid on non-contracted items, and negotiate best price.
- Interface with planning and purchasing Demand and Program Managers to ensure any changes in schedule or requirements are flowed down to suppliers.
- Review purchase orders regularly and follow up on unconfirmed orders, past due items, etc.
Safran Cabin is #1 worldwide for aircraft interiors.
Here, you will build your skills and grow with a community of experts to enrich yourself every day.
Here, collaboration is embodied within the diversity of our teams all around the world.
Here, we're cutting our emissions, not your ambitions.
Together, let's shape the sustainable future of aeronautics.
Your Benefits:
Here, you will build your skills and grow with a community of experts to enrich yourself every day.
Here, collaboration is embodied within the diversity of our teams all around the world.
Here, we're cutting our emissions, not your ambitions.
Together, let's shape the sustainable future of aeronautics.
Your Benefits:
- Our suite of comprehensive benefits include health care (medical, dental and vision), life insurance, 401(k) savings plans with company match, paid time off, and employee discounts & rewards for consumer products/services and more!
- Management roles may be eligible for a bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable incentive plan.
At Safran Cabin, we provide equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, age, national origin, ancestry, disability/medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic characteristics or information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.
The expected salary range for this position is between $70,310 - $101,090 USD. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, education, and other factors permitted by law.
Candidate Skills & Requirements/Qualifications:
The expected salary range for this position is between $70,310 - $101,090 USD. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, education, and other factors permitted by law.
Candidate Skills & Requirements/Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience: Minimum of 3+ years of experience in purchasing, preferably in the aerospace or aviation industry.
Computer Skills:
• MRP system experience.
• MS Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint).
The Safran growth strategy centers on three imperatives: growing company market share, customer satisfaction and achieving operational excellence. The Aftermarket Buyer 2 role is responsible for acquiring goods and services at a competitive price, ensuring that goods are of top quality, and facilitating delivery of goods via the issuance and management of a purchase order. Analyzes demand and plans supply in accordance, ensures efficient and quality execution of requirements and purchasing action messages, manages supplier delivery, quality, and cost performance and improvement. This role requires a diverse purchasing background and a thorough understanding of supplier performance, quality requirements, and documentation/certification processes. The ideal candidate will possess strong negotiation and contract administration skills, as well as the ability to mentor lower-level buyers and expeditors.
This job posting has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group.
• MRP system experience.
• MS Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint).
The Safran growth strategy centers on three imperatives: growing company market share, customer satisfaction and achieving operational excellence. The Aftermarket Buyer 2 role is responsible for acquiring goods and services at a competitive price, ensuring that goods are of top quality, and facilitating delivery of goods via the issuance and management of a purchase order. Analyzes demand and plans supply in accordance, ensures efficient and quality execution of requirements and purchasing action messages, manages supplier delivery, quality, and cost performance and improvement. This role requires a diverse purchasing background and a thorough understanding of supplier performance, quality requirements, and documentation/certification processes. The ideal candidate will possess strong negotiation and contract administration skills, as well as the ability to mentor lower-level buyers and expeditors.
This job posting has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee within this position. The actual duties, responsibilities and qualifications may vary based on assignment or group.
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