Senior Buyer - Facilities

Senior Buyer (Indirect Sourcing Team) - Facilities portfolio

Location: Denham, Middlesex

Salary: Excellent salary and benefits package

Application Deadline: Monday, April 14, 2025

Job Summary

Martin-Baker is the world’s leading manufacturer of ejection seats, helping to protect aircrew in the world’s most advanced military aircraft. Our mission is simple - to save aircrew lives.

Join us on this mission as a Senior Buyer within the Indirect Sourcing department, based in Denham. You’ll join a highly professional team which has built a strong reputation for building winning relationships with suppliers and stakeholders at Martin-Baker.

You’ll be responsible for overseeing the procurement of goods and services related to Facilities Management.

Key aspects of the role include strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, vendor management, and ensuring compliance with budgetary guidelines. You’ll collaborate with various internal departments and colleagues to identify sourcing requirements, streamline processes, and enhance operational efficiencies. There are some high impact projects coming up involving the Facilities function, you’ll be involved with shaping project plans and the suppliers involved with these activities. This is an exciting time to join Martin-Baker and make an impact.

As a Senior Buyer, you’ll be the primary point of contact for suppliers, managing supplier relationships including performance against KPI indicators, proactively identifying and managing risks; identifying new suppliers via tendering and performing RFX exercises. Contract management & negotiation (including reviewing key contract clauses, working with the legal team to ensure risk is mitigated). You’ll support colleagues across the Facilities and Health & Safety functions, working in conjunction with Commodity Managers to research and evaluate suppliers, actively ensuring that products, services and materials meet the scope and comply to the required quality standards.

Further aspects of the role include generating and maintaining supplier data using internal systems to support finance and governance processes and complying with sourcing policies. You’ll build winning relationships with suppliers to identify bottlenecks, problems and solutions.

The future of engineering and manufacturing is changing. To future-proof your career, Martin-Baker will always keep investing in your development. That’s a long-term promise. Because we want to learn from you, so keeping your skills up to date is important to us, and important for our future. We’re after people who are curious and enjoy solving problems.

Characteristics & Skills

• Extensive sourcing and procurement experience across facilities categories, with a full understanding of building and site construction, health and safety regulations, and Government building regulations.
• Proven project management experience with longer term project timescales.
• Strong communication, influencing and relationship building skills with colleagues and suppliers.
• Experience of supporting multiple sites across the UK (or a large manufacturing site) relating to sourcing/procurement of facilities suppliers, including dual source, single source, and sole source suppliers.
• Knowledge of SAP or related MRP/ERP systems and import/export requirements.
• Experience of working in regulated industries would be very beneficial, such as defence, healthcare, medical, automotive, construction or engineering.
• Practical problem solving and project management skills.
• Share and demonstrate the Martin-Baker Values.

You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside experts who will help you to obtain a wide understanding of an engineering business within the Sourcing function, you’ll develop new skills and gain strong industry experience.

Where you’ll be based

• Denham, Middlesex.

Your benefits in detail

• An established accounting study package and recognised qualifications at a world-renowned British engineering company.
• Highly competitive 9% non-contributory pension scheme (18 +).
• 4x salary Life Assurance.
• Lunchtime finish on Fridays.
• Personalised training and development plan.
• Healthcare Plan.
• 25-days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• Martin-Baker + (retail discounts platform).
• Occupational Health team.
• Workplace Nursery Benefit scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.

We believe in equal opportunity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is respected. We want you to be able to do your best work.

All candidates will be treated equally and fairly, regardless of their background, or any characteristic protected by law. Candidates will be selected entirely on their skills and competencies and in alignment with each role’s specifications and / or requirements. All published adverts will be aligned with the Company’s Diversity and Inclusion commitment.

For all successful candidates, Martin-Baker will undertake background security checks. As part of this, we will need to confirm your identity, employment history and address history to cover the past five years as well as your nationality, immigration status and criminal record.