Purchasing Data Manager

Company : Safran Seats

Job field : Purchasing

Location : Cwmbran, Wales, United Kingdom

Contract type : Permanent

Contract duration : Full-time

Are you interested in working at the business end of Aerospace, where airline brand meets innovative passenger experience? Then your next opportunity could be with Safran Seats, an industry award winning, premium designer and manufacturer of First and Business Class seating and technology. Our passenger experience prides itself on innovation, customization, quality and industrial design.

At Safran Seats, we are unique within aerospace, as we interface with both the world's biggest airlines and airframers alike, with the largest seats portfolio of all seats suppliers. One day you could be liaising with one of the world's largest airframers, and the next, some of the biggest airline brands around the world!

In the UK, Safran Seats specialises solely in the First Class and Business Class seating markets for wide body aircraft, with industrial and engineering teams in Cwmbran and Newport, Wales and Brackley, England.

The purpose of this role is to work closely with stakeholders across the SGB Purchasing team to lead the daily data management agenda e.g. creation/maintenance of Purchasing KPI's covering Quality, Cost and Delivery metrics.

Key Responsibilities

1. Engineering Change Request (ECR) management for purchased parts
2. Creation/maintenance of Purchasing KPI's (including but not limited to:
1. Purchase Price Variance (PPV)
2. Purchase Requisitions
3. Invoice management
4. Product sourcing
3. Creation and development of processes alongside the PM&T specialist

Job Requirements

1. Read and understand engineering drawings
2. Willingness and ability to work across all areas of operations
3. Team Management / Leadership skills
4. Knowledge of Purchasing activity within a Manufacturing environment
5. Ideally some knowledge of activity in an Engineering environment

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you!

As a valued member of our team, these are just a few of the benefits you'll receive:

1. 25 days holiday + UK Bank Holidays
2. Benefits Programme, with a number of schemes such as cycle to work, technology savings, retail discounts and access to private healthcare
3. Career Progressions opportunities such as company sponsorship and further training courses
4. Family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoptive parents, shared parental leave, parental leave and flexible working
5. Equality & Diversity initiatives with internal groups for workplace engagement and involvement
6. STEM engagement with schools, colleges and universities and Charitable activities for all

Please apply and submit your CV today! Once your CV has been reviewed, we will contact you with the next stages.

We want Safran Seats to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, can be themselves and know they can reach their full potential. We embrace and celebrate our differences through various initiatives and support colleagues through a number of staff networks.

We're committed to building a strong, diverse workforce and making Safran Seats an inclusive place to work.

Specificity of the job

UK / International