Senior Engineering Buyer

Lockheed Martin; Ampthill; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the defense industry is seeking a Senior Engineering Buyer for a 6-month contract based in Ampthill. The role focuses on procurement across various programmes, ensuring supplier performance meets quality and cost requirements. The successful candidate will work within a flexible environment, managing relationships and procurement activities that support complex projects.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Engineering Buyer or related role.
• Experience with complex drawn items and high-volume production.
• Ability to work independently and manage supplier engagement.

Responsibilities

• Manage the procurement process including RFQ issuance and negotiations.
• Negotiate supplier contracts to ensure best value.
• Develop and maintain key stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Contract negotiation

Supplier performance management

Stakeholder relationship management

Procurement best practice

Communication skills

Education

CIPS

Relevant Bachelor’s degree

Job description

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We're looking for a Senior Engineering Buyer to join our team on a 6 month contract, based from our Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. This role benefits from our 4xFlex working pattern, offering a 4 day working week Monday - Thursday and hybrid working with typically 3 days a week onsite.

This role is part of the Lockheed Martin UK Supply Chain Organisation managing the total supply chain for goods and services to meet a variety of programme and business requirements.

Focussing on managing supplier delivery, it primarily supports the development and production in Armoured Vehicles, Platform Integration, Special Projects and Weapons areas & domains to meet domestic and international programme and business needs. LMUK (Ampthill) has a worldwide supply base although predominantly in the UK, Europe, Middle East and the US.

Success requires experience of working in a functional organisation and a blend of proven skills including relationship building and achievement of deliveries on time and in full, through the ability to successfully negotiate and manage procurements, ranging from simple to complex subcontracts. This will be coupled with effectively working within a multi-disciplinary product team including Engineering, Operations and Quality.

The role focusses on supporting a variety of programmes and undertakes activity across multiple categories of goods and services including simple to complex build to print in commodity areas including PCB's, box-builds, cable harnesses, mechanical, COTs and MOTs.

Responsibilities may extend across the product life cycle and include:

• Undertaking the procurement process including issuing RFQ’s, Invitation to Tender, Terms and Conditions, negotiations, bid evaluations, and award of contract .
• Holding a procurement delegation and signing supplier agreements and purchase orders within this limit.
• Negotiating with suppliers to ensure best-value is achieved.
• Managing supplier performance to meet Technical, Schedule, Quality and Cost requirements.
• Developing and maintaining stakeholder relationships with key internal and external business contacts to achieve mutual benefit.
• Ensuring procurement activities are compliant with internal/legislative procedures, and that risks are identified and managed.
• Providing the key interface between internal customers and suppliers to ensure that communication is effectively managed, and issues and risks are fully understood and managed.
• Supporting internal and external reviews of supplier performance as required.
• Contributing to the continual improvement of the supply chain processes.

The successful candidate must achieve the appropriate level (SC) of security clearance. More details can be found here.

Required skills, qualifications and experience

• Proven experience as a Senior Engineering Buyer or related role.
• Buying experience for complex drawn items (Mechanical Assemblies, PCB-A).
• Experience within a high volume, fast production rate environment.
• Excellent understanding of procurement best practice.
• Capable of managing complex schedule and cost challenges..
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to effectively manage stakeholders’ expectations at a variety of levels.
• Able to complete tasks under minimal guidance / supervision
• High level of supplier engagement, delivering successful outcomes

Desired Skills

• Supply chain experience in the defence environment
• CIPS

Business Environment

Lockheed Martin (UK) Ampthill is a rapidly changing, dynamic part of the Lockheed Martin Corporation with both domestic and international customers. It consists of business areas focusing on Platform Integration, Ground Based Air Defence, Special Projects and Weapons, which provide a variety of products and services to the Ministry of Defence and other customers. We are looking for talented individuals to join the company, in return we offer an exciting and challenging career path and excellent work/life balance with a 4 day week (Mon-Thurs) and flexible working arrangements.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockheed Martin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and reflect our values of doing what's right, respecting others and performing with excellence. By engaging with all our employees' diverse talents and experiences every day, we can innovate different and better, creating cutting edge solutions and unparalleled customer value.

We know that diversity of thought leads to better solutions for our customers. Our top priority is finding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested in the position, we’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team and would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the criteria set out in our job advert. In addition, we are committed to inclusion of all individuals and will make reasonable adjustments to our applications process. If you require assistance or adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [e-mail] or call 023 92 458 000.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Supply Chain

• Industries

  Defense and Space Manufacturing

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