Senior Buyer

Company: 804 Technology
Location: Houston
Posted on: February 3, 2025

Job Description:

Procurement Specialist (Sr. Buyer)

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Lead sourcing actives and negotiations for low to high value aerospace and industrial type components to optimize cost opportunities, contract coverage, and secure supply continuity.
Undertake contractual and price negotiations with new and existing suppliers to mitigate commercial risk and optimize commercial advantage for current and future programs.
Carry out in depth cost breakdowns analysis (including cost estimation) and negotiate the lowest TCA in order to contribute to the divisional cost saving targets.
Drive cost reduction and resourcing programs to support strategy execution ensuring impact on existing supply chains are managed.
Develop and deliver robust and integrated Commodity and Supplier strategies to provide supply chains capable of providing business needs across all stakeholder areas.
Ensure a close cooperation with internal customers to ensure customer care and early involvement.

Ability to work in a complex, fast changing global organizational environment.
10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing/commodity management.
Outstanding Excel skills.
Outstanding communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Excellent commercial, contractual, and project management acumen.
Familiarity with component Manufacturing processes and Quality
Knowledge of working with a global supplier base, in a matrix environment.
Bachelor's degree required; Masters degree and/or CIPS desired
Manufacturing and Energy experience preferred but not required.

Integrates Procurement in the project management process and organizes, controls and monitors all Procurement activities in a project.
* Participates in project/sales meetings as project core team member to exert a shaping influence at an early stage and to optimize internal workflows and processes.
* Establishes proper sourcing and Procurement processes and controls all Procurement resources and activities in the project.
* Analyzes customer inquiries during bid preparation / opportunity management phases and exactly understands the customer's functional needs in order to include (supplier) innovations.
* Supports project calculation with reliable material cost data.
* Analyzes scope of supply and contract agreements, carries out risk analyzes and introduces negotiation recommendations.
* Analyzes sales and operations planning in respect of starting / new projects, assessing and controlling of material costs within the whole project business in order to ensure the involvement of Procurement.
* Drives Procurement strategies in projects and ensures their implementation.
* Heads up contractual and price negotiations and/or supports the specialist buyers responsible for particular material fields.
* Clarifies internal indicators for project controlling and compiling all relevant information to submit qualified reports.
* Forwards systematically all relevant Procurement related project information

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