Senior Buyer

Metrea; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Subsidised gym membership / Well hub

Electric Car scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrificed pension scheme

Free lunch on office days

Enhanced Parental Leave

30 days annual PTO + bank holidays

Bonus Scheme

Personal development opportunities

Job summary

Metrea seeks a procurement professional to manage end-to-end purchasing across UK and EU operations. You will balance tactical buying with strategic supplier management, ensuring supply continuity, cost control, and contract compliance in a multicultural environment.

Ideal candidates have 3–5 years in procurement within Aerospace/Defence, strong PO management, and ERP experience (AMOS, D365). The role is hybrid, based in London, with 10–20% travel and a focus on sustainable sourcing.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years of procurement experience in a relevant sector.
• Experience in Aerospace/Defence or Aerospace Maintenance environments.
• Strong PO management and procurement process knowledge.
• Excellent negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency with ERP systems (AMOS, D365) and understanding Incoterms.

Responsibilities

• Execute end-to-end tactical purchasing, converting requisitions into POs and contracts with timely delivery and quality.
• Coordinate with UK/EU suppliers; act as escalation point for delivery or quality issues.
• Support mid-tier contract negotiations focusing on price, SLAs, and payment terms; monitor KPIs.
• Maintain procurement data accuracy and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to meet demand requirements; ensure compliance with policies and ESG goals.

Skills

Negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Sourcing experience

Multicultural collaboration

Autonomous working

Understanding Incoterms

Education

CIPS qualification or equivalent

Tools

AMOS

D365

Job description

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to‑end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia‑Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It’s a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Position Summary

Reporting toMetrea’sProcurement Manager, this rolewillprimarilyexecute and manage end-to-end procurement activities across the UK and EU operations. This role balances day-to-day tactical purchasing with proactive commercial delivery, ensuring continuity of supply, strict cost control, and rigorous supplier contract compliance across borders.This role requires the ability tooperateeffectively in a multicultural, multilingual supplier environment with experience sourcing across multiple European markets.

What You’ll Do

Procurement Execution

• Execute end-to-end tactical purchasing activities, converting business requisitions into robust purchase orders (POs) and contracts, ensuring timelydelivery andproduct quality


• Resolve issues as they occur and mitigate Aircraft on Ground (AOG) root causes

Supplier Coordination

• Manage day-to-day operational issues with UK and EU suppliers, acting as the primary escalation point for delivery or quality defects


• Supportcommercial negotiations on mid-tier contracts, focusing on price, service levels, and payment terms (optimizing working capital)


• Monitor and report on supplier KPIs, contract compliance, and savings KPIs

Cost & Process Control

• Maintain procurement data accuracy


• Identifyand implement cost-saving opportunities

Stakeholder Support

• Work closely with internal stakeholders to support business requirementstoensure demand requirements are met


• Parter with Logistics to verify the origin of goods to claim tariff-free movement

Compliance

• Ensure compliance withinternal policies andUK/EU regulatory frameworks including GDPR, Modern Slavery Act, and relevant procurement legislation


• Drive ESG and sustainability initiatives within the supply base, including carbon reduction and ethical sourcing

What You Bring

• Minimum 3-5 years of Procurement experience


• Experience inAerospace / Defence /AerospaceMaintenanceenvironment


• Demonstrated effective purchase order management


• Demonstrated strong negotiationskills


• Ability tooperateeffectively in a multicultural, multilingual supplier environment


• ProficiencyinFamiliarity with ERP systems (e.g., AMOS, D365)


• Able to work autonomously as well as work with and influence stakeholders


• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to quickly synthesize, distil and draw conclusions onlarge amountsof disparate data


• Proficiencyin understanding andutilizingappropriateIncoterms and import/export requirements

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Experience sourcing across multiple European markets with understanding of regional supplier dynamics


• CIPS qualifiedor equivalent procurement certification preferred


• Ability to interpret technical drawings and specifications

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance


• Subsided gym membership / plans throughWellhub


• Electric Car scheme


• Cycle to work scheme


• Salary sacrificed pension scheme


• Free lunch on office days


• Enhanced Parental Leave


• 30 days annual PTO plus b/h


• Bonus Scheme


• Personal development opportunities

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

The employee will have the legal right to work in theUKand will be able to producerightto work documentation.

AAP/EEO Statement

MetreaManagement Limited (MAM) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race,color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to6:00p.m.

Work Environment

Hybrid,Hammersmith, 3 days per week.

Travel

10-20%

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.