Highlights
This position works closely with suppliers and internal departments to support customer orders, manage backlog, monitor delivery performance, and provide purchasing and inventory reports throughout the company. The Buyer is responsible for purchasing aerospace products and materials while ensuring competitive pricing, supplier quality, timely delivery, and appropriate inventory levels.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Glastonbury, CT |
| Industry | Aerospace and Defense |
| Company Size | 5,000 to 9,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1957 |
| Website | https://www.heico.com/ |
Description
The Buyer is responsible for purchasing aerospace products and materials while ensuring competitive pricing, supplier quality, timely delivery, and appropriate inventory levels. This position works closely with suppliers and internal departments to support customer orders, manage backlog, monitor delivery performance, and provide purchasing and inventory reports throughout the company.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform purchasing-related data entry and maintain accurate procurement records.
- Purchase a variety of aerospace products, materials, and components.
- Identify and evaluate suppliers based on pricing, quality, reliability, and delivery performance.
- Review and analyze price proposals, financial reports, market information, and other relevant data to determine reasonable pricing.
- Negotiate pricing, delivery schedules, terms, and other agreements with suppliers.
- Issue and manage purchase orders from placement through delivery.
- Monitor customer orders to ensure materials and products are procured on time.
- Identify potential supply or delivery issues and work with suppliers and internal teams to resolve them.
- Track and report customer backlog, supplier performance, and on-time delivery results.
- Extract and analyze data daily to create visual reports for departments throughout the company.
- Manage inventory levels to support operational needs while remaining within established budget targets.
- Maintain effective relationships with suppliers and internal departments.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives related to purchasing, inventory management, supplier performance, and reporting.
- Travel to supplier locations, trade events, or other business sites as required.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain management, operations, finance, or a related field required.
- Minimum of three years of relevant professional experience required.
- At least three years of manufacturing experience required.
- Aerospace industry experience preferred.
- Purchasing, procurement, inventory management, or supply chain experience strongly preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and Outlook.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to review pricing, financial information, inventory data, and supplier performance.
- Ability to create clear visual reports and communicate data to different departments.
- Excellent organizational, planning, and time-management skills.
- Strong attention to detail and data-entry accuracy.
- Strong English verbal and written communication skills.
- Effective negotiation and supplier-management skills.
- Ability to prioritize multiple assignments and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to identify problems, evaluate available information, and recommend practical solutions.
Travel Requirements
- Approximately 20%–30% travel is required.
Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled
About Company
HEICO Corporation is a successful and growing technology-driven aerospace, industrial, defense and electronics company. For more than 60 years, HEICO has thrived by providing customers with innovative and cost-saving products and services.
HEICO's products are found on large commercial aircraft, regional, business and military aircraft, as well as on a large variety of industrial turbines, targeting systems, missiles and electro-optical devices.
HEICO Corporation is a New York Stock Exchange listed company (NYSE: HEI and HEI.A) and has also been ranked as one of the 100 "World's Most Innovative Growth Companies", 100 "Best Small Companies" and 200 "Hot Shot Stocks" by Forbes over the past decade. With headquarters in Hollywood, Florida, and multiple locations around the world - HEICO provides over 1 million square feet of design, manufacturing, repair, overhaul, distribution, sales and support capabilities.
HEICO Corporation operates in two segments, the Flight Support group and the Electronic Technologies group. The Flight Support group designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, distributes and overhauls FAA-approved parts that extend over the entire aircraft, from the engines all the way to hydraulic, pneumatic, electromechanical, avionic, structures, wheels and brakes and even interiors.
The Electronic Technologies group produces electrical and electro-optical systems and components serving niche segments of the aerospace, defense, communications, and computer industries. The Electronic Technologies group is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and sale of electrically and electro-optical engineered products used in the aerospace, defense, space, and electronics industries.
By combining state-of-the-art technologies, a team of highly skilled Team Members and an indisputable commitment to quality, both segments have constantly delivered invaluable solutions to customers over the years, helping to position them as leaders within their industries.