Technical Buyer

A rapidly growing international aerospace organisation is seeking a permanent Technical Buyer to join its expanding team in Cheltenham, offering a salary of up to -55,000.

This opportunity has arisen due to continued business growth and recent acquisitions, creating a key role within the procurement function. The successful candidate will join a well-established team and benefit from excellent career progression opportunities over the coming years/

To be considered, candidates should have previous purchasing or procurement experience gained within a technical manufacturing environment.

Role responsibilities of the Technical Buyer include:

• Manage the end-to-end procurement process, including RFQs, supplier negotiations, purchase order placement, and conversion of demand into supply.
• Evaluate and manage supplier performance across cost, quality, delivery, lead times, capability, and commercial suitability to ensure business requirements are met.
• Maintain supplier orderbooks and delivery commitments, proactively managing risks and resolving issues to support on-time delivery and production continuity.
• Review technical documentation, including drawings, specifications, bills of materials, and design data, ensuring suppliers receive and work to the latest revisions.
• Maintain accurate ERP/MRP system data, including pricing, lead times, delivery schedules, order status, and supplier master data.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Quality, Production, Planning, Finance, and Suppliers, to resolve supply, quality, commercial, and invoice-related issues.
• Drive supplier performance and continuous improvement through business reviews, site visits, cost reduction initiatives, risk management, compliance activities, and new supplier introduction support.

Person Specification of the Technical Buyer:

• Proven purchasing/procurement experience within manufacturing, aerospace, or engineering environments, sourcing engineered components, materials, and services.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, specifications, and bills of materials to support procurement activities.
• Strong supplier relationship and orderbook management skills, ensuring cost, quality, and delivery objectives are met.
• Commercially astute with excellent negotiation, communication, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience using ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft Office in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Strong organisational and analytical skills, with the ability to manage priorities, mitigate supply risks, and support continuous supplier performance improvement.

Salary

Up to -55k

Role predominently on site working, with the opportunitiy to discuss some hybrid working

This role will be well suited to you if you have held a role within purchasing or procurement as a buyer, engineering buyer, manufacturing buyer, strategic buyer, senior buyer, purchasing engineer, supply chain buyer, commodity buyer, category buying, sourcing specialist, aerospace buyer, components buyer, technical buyer, project buyer, procurement officer, purchasing specialist, purchasing officer or category specialist.