Sub Contract Buyer

This Buyer position is a unique opportunity to play an important role within Leonardo; a global high-tech company on the Yeovil site, that designs, manufactures and supports state of the art helicopters.
As the Home of British Helicopters, you will be uniquely placed to see the output of your labours every day. We have over 45,000 employees worldwide with just over 7,000 being based in the UK.
This unique opportunity requires a varied and diverse skillset; offering the opportunity to learn and develop, using both on-the-job training and our myriad of e-learning platforms.
Similarly, you will have exposure to a wide range of functions/ disciplines within the company to build a network in order to deliver the contract. 
 
Key tasks:

• Send request for quotations
• Review and negotiate quotations
• Raise Purchase Orders
• Carry out supplier reviews
• Manage blocked invoices
• Manage Quality Notifications
• Manage supplier qualification

What do we need?

• Someone who is confident, able to get the information required and able to challenge where appropriate, whilst maintaining good relations working at many levels within the business – in other words, excellent interpersonal skills
• Someone who can cope independently with high workload in a pressured environment and be able to prioritise effectively
• Someone who is keen and able, with support, to embrace new challenges and to learn new skills.
• Someone who is competent user of MS Office applications and able to use MS Excel effectively – using Pivots, VLookups and some understanding of formulas is a ‘must have’ and ability to confidently manipulate large data sets to create reports essential.

 
What would be an advantage, but if you don’t have it, it can be taught.

• Some experience in managing similar activity in equivalent sector
• To have some knowledge or experience of the aerospace sector
• To have worked with SAP
• Some experience in purchasing or supply chain management