Buyer

Morson Talent currently have an exciting new position for a Buyer to join our prestigious aerospace client based in Yeovil. This role is a contract role until December 2025.

To agree contracts with a supply base to acquire specific goods and services for internal and external customers on time and within budget and to the correct quality standard. This may include agreeing contracts with new suppliers, including agreement with, and support of, new terms and conditions. Critical to this role is the requirement to prioritise your work to discharge tasks and activities effectively to meet the needs of the business. You will conduct procurement activity in a way that optimises commercial advantage for the business and minimises risk.
Main activities will include, but not be limited to:
- Understand the service and or goods that are or will be required by the company.
- Select appropriate suppliers from existing approved suppliers, (or recommend new suppliers and obtain approval from their manager), that can deliver goods or services in accordance with the company requirements for quality, cost and delivery.
- Establish appropriate contracts to deliver the goods or and services that meet the business needs.
- For development contracts, prior to the client’s receipt of first conforming article and for non-hardware contracts, you will be responsible for project managing the contract through to timely completion ensuring compliance to contract condition.
- Drive and direct critical activities with your suppliers to ensure on time delivery of goods and or services to the correct contract conditions.
- Identify and manage risks and issues within contract.
- Maintain and have available accurate and up to date contract documentation, negotiating and incorporating any applicable contract changes.
- Monitor and review targeted and actual performance, (Delivery, quality, and cost), with your suppliers
- You may be required to monitor and act on MRP (material requirement planning) exception messages with a view to maintaining a balanced order book.
- Maintain appropriate contact with relevant stakeholders and seek to develop an effective relationship with them during the work or project being discharged.
- Understand future business needs as they affect their suppliers - specifically future cost and lead time reduction targets.
- Develop and maintain good communication with your line-manager and/or task/project sponsor and encourage open discussion on progress and problems relating to the discharge of those tasks or projects and other activities upon which you are engaged.
- Establish good working relationships with your team, other members of the Directorate, other areas of the business, and suppliers with which you interact.
- Liaise with other employees from other areas of the business whenever possible and appropriate, to better understand their perceptions and expectations of your output and performance.
- When undertaking any activity, comply with processes and standards as defined in the COS, associated Functional Manual and in accordance with applicable regulatory and/or legislative procedures and controls.
- Demonstrate compliance through appropriate controls and adequate record keeping and documentation.
- Conduct reviews of those company processes and procedures that you own, in accordance with issued review schedules, or as directed by your line manager.
- Monitor all projects for conformance to standards and produce the appropriate documentation for the department.
- You should take a considered critical approach to using company-wide processes and, where such usage impacts on your or your ability to discharge your responsibilities, it must be referred to the appropriate process owner.
- Assist others in the scoping of larger projects on costing, estimates, resource, capabilities, and statement of works, to ensure the business requirements are met in a cost-effective manner.
- Assist your manager or team leader in estimating and scoping your tasks.
- Minimise the costs of all tasks upon which you are engaged, through effective planning and better understanding of overall project requirements.
- Ensure that tasks are carried out to the agreed budget and that any changes to tasks and budgets are discussed and agreed with the internal budget holder, you line manager, or team leader.
- Agree with Line Manager or Team Leader, your specific tasks, projects and activities, and understand how those requirements will be monitored, and plan your own time and work accordingly.
- Oversee the activities of more junior colleagues who may be assisting you in the discharge of your own work.
- Provide reports and returns on tasks and activities you undertake to your line managers.
- Ensure all tasks assigned and undertaken are then performed to identified cost and time constraints.
- Take ownership of your own personal and professional development.
- Develop an understanding of project planning, resource and cost management principles and endeavour to apply them to your own work when practical.
- Seek to identify any opportunities that may be beneficial to the company.
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Good communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to influence internally and externally and solve problems using own initiative or on occasion by seeking assistance.
- Advanced team working skills and capable of co-ordinating of some multi-functional team activity.
- Computer literate (knowledge of SAP would be an advantage).
- Relevant procurement or commercial experience.
- Have and maintain a valid driving licence.
- Able & willing to travel alone or as part of a team within the UK and overseas.
- Aware of & willing to abide by the attached Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply professional code of ethics.
Regular Remote Worker (20% onsite)