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Safran

Aftermarket Buyer 1

Safran, Garden Grove, California, United States, 92641

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Safran Cabin Purchasing Garden Grove, California, United States

Permanent, Full-time

No Degree, First experience

English Fluent

$22.14 - $34.79/hr USD

Job Description Here, we craft excellence together. Your mission? Making the journey the most enjoyable part of the trip. Join our first-class team to reinvent in-flight experience. In the role of Buyer 1 you'll play a pivotal part on our supply chain team. The Safran growth strategy centers on three imperatives: growing company market share, customer satisfaction, and achieving operational excellence.

The Aftermarket Buyer 1 role is responsible for acquiring goods and services at a competitive price, ensuring that goods are of top quality, and facilitating delivery of goods via the issuance and management of a purchase order. Analyzes demand and plans supply in accordance, ensures efficient and quality execution of requirements and purchasing action messages, manages supplier delivery, quality, and cost performance and improvement.

The Aftermarket Buyer role is unique as it supports critical post-delivery operations by sourcing and procuring aerospace components for spare parts, system upgrades, and maintenance programs. This position demands a strong familiarity with a broad range of aircraft parts and aftermarket programs, enabling swift response to urgent customer requirements and sustained operational performance. The position plays a key role in sustaining aircraft readiness, customer satisfaction, and regulatory compliance through agile supply chain coordination and vendor management.

Role Assignment

Acts as authorized agent of the company, making financial commitments and managing key supplier relationships to ensure supply chain performance

Manages stable supplier accounts, requiring basic knowledge of commodity, supply base, and program

Responsible for low risk suppliers, moderate spend, with peer team lead oversight

Purchasing Execution

Make daily purchases and input into MRP system based on demand, while analyzing the quality, specifications, and delivery requirements

Ensure just in time supply aligns with loaded demand to maintain inventory targets

Send out quotations for bid on non-contracted items, and negotiate best price

Interface with planning, higher level buyers, Demand and Program Managers to ensure any changes in schedule or requirements are flowed down to suppliers

Review purchase orders regularly and follow up on unconfirmed orders, past due items, etc.

Supplier Management

Generate effective communication, good relationships, and a positive image with suppliers, promoting courtesy, objectivity, and fairness

Act as authorized agent of the company and primary contact to assigned suppliers

Proactively manage suppliers and regularly assess performance to ensure on-time delivery of quality product

Manage program shortages and ensure supplier commitments are communicated to IPT Lead

Review non-conformance reports (NCRs) against supplier product and communicate and coordinate disposition

Job Requirements Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Experience: 0-3 years of supply chain/purchasing/sourcing experience, preferably in the aerospace or aviation industry

Computer Skills: MRP system experience, MS Office Skills (Excel, PowerPoint)

Other Skills: Willingness to learn and develop new competencies, strong written and verbal business communications abilities, self-starter with ability to drive improvement, meet timeliness and objectives, identifying problems working with teams to solve through leading actions collaboratively, ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, high‑pressure environment, ability to analyze and communicate requirements, utilize Excel functions (including VLOOKUP) and PowerPoint for analytical reporting, ability to negotiate, influence, and win respect, ability to make timely decisions and take action, ability to provide information regarding tasks, plans, schedule and strategy to stakeholders, customer service oriented

Additional Preferred Skills: Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain or program management, ability to read and analyze engineering prints

But What Else? (Advantages, Specific Features, Etc.) General Notes: All employees have an affirmative duty to protect and maintain the confidentiality of Safran's products. As business conditions change it is necessary that all employees productively react and handle other essential tasks as assigned now or in the future. Tasks may vary slightly based on products produced at division. Duties listed above are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required. The company may modify responsibilities as needed to meet business and organizational needs.

Working Conditions: Does require fluent communication in English. Employment status is full-time. Traveling may be required. Protracted or irregular hours may be required. Relocation to another facility may be required.

Company Information Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets. Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking. Safran Cabin designs, certifies, manufactures and supports innovative aircraft cabin interiors, equipment and systems, providing airlines and OEM Customers with distinctive aircraft branding, and their passengers with a safe, comfortable and enjoyable flying experience.

7330 Lincoln Way, Garden Grove, California, United States

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