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Company : Safran Cabin

Job field : Supply chain

Location : Marysville , Washington , United States

Contract type : Permanent

Contract duration : Full-time

Required degree : High School Diploma/GED Equivalent

Required experience : More than 3 years

Spoken language(s) :

English Fluent

Salary range : $67,740 - $84,870

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Job Description

Job Summary:

The Safran growth strategy centers on three imperatives: growing company market share, customer satisfaction and achieving operational excellence. The buyer 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.

Summary of Duties:

Role Assignment

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 solid working knowledge of subject matter

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 Integrated Program Team (IPT) 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.

Supplier Management

Generate effective communication, good relationships, and a positive image with suppliers, promoting courtesy, objectivity, and fairness

Act as authorized agent of the company and primary contact to assigned suppliers

Proactively manage suppliers and regularly assess performance to ensure on-time delivery of quality product

Manage program shortages and ensure supplier commitments are communicated to IPT Lead

Review non-conformance reports (NCRs) against supplier product and communicate and coordinate disposition

Identifies and mitigates risk, solves problems, and escalates as needed to IPT Lead and/or Purchasing Manager

Complementary Description

Safran Cabin headquarters are in Huntington Beach, California, with a global presence of over 10,000 employees at 39 sites. Site locations are in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Germany, France, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Tunisia and Thailand. Safran Cabin serves over 400 airlines and leasing companies globally and delivers to all airframe OEM manufacturers with a heritage spanning over 80 years in the industry.

Safran's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) goes beyond our facility walls. We value and support the communities where we live and work. One of Safran's values and CSR pillar is Corporate Citizenship that helps drive economic, social and cultural progress by sharing our gifts with those around us.

Your Career: Safran is committed to providing internal mobility to our employees. We operate globally so the sky is the limit of where your Safran journey can take you.

Your Development: Safran employees have free access to Safran University courses and external tuition reimbursement for approved programs or certifications.

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, Safran Perks with BenefitHub – Employee Discounts & Rewards Marketplace for consumer products/services and more!

Job Requirements

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Experience: Minimum 3 years of supply chain/purchasing/sourcing experience

Computer Skills:

MRP system experience

MS Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint)

Other Skills:

Strong written and verbal business communications abilities

Self-starter with ability to drive improvement, meet timeliness and objectives

Identifying problems working with teams to solve through leading actions collaboratively

Ability to analyze and communicate requirements

Ability to apply Supply Chain past experience to current environment and modify as needed

Ability to negotiate, influence, and win respect

Ability to make timely decisions and take action

Ability to provide information regarding tasks, plans, schedule and strategy to stakeholders

Customer service oriented

Additional Preferred Skills: (not required)

Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain or program management

Previous experience supporting manufacturing, aerospace preferred

Ability to read and analyze engineering prints

Locate your future workplace

12810 State AveWA 98271

Marysville

Washington United States

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Safran is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.