Senior Global Buyer – Aerospace Materials & Subcontracts

ICOMAT; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Career growth opportunities

Innovation culture

Global impact

Job summary

ICOMAT in Gloucester and Swindon is seeking a Procurement Buyer who owns every supplier—selection, price, terms, and performance—across two sites. You will turn demand into purchase orders in SYSPRO, manage the open PO book, and secure deliveries at the right price, with the right paperwork, on the agreed dates.

This role focuses on negotiating best value, driving supplier performance, and keeping MRP/ERP data clean to protect project timelines.

Qualifications

• Proven buying or procurement experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP / MRP purchasing.
• Real negotiation experience: price, lead time, terms, and recovery when a supplier misses.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing processes and bills of material, and of how an empty shelf becomes a late part.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, and real comfort with data.
• Accuracy under pressure; a wrong figure in MRP becomes a late part.
• Clear, direct communication with Production, Engineering, Stores, Quality, Finance and suppliers.
• Ability to hold multiple priorities across two sites without losing the thread.
• Willingness to travel regularly between Gloucester and Swindon, and a full UK driving licence.
• A continuous improvement mindset and the appetite to build a broad knowledge of how we manufacture.

Responsibilities

• Convert MRP demand into purchase orders in SYSPRO, accurately and on time.
• Own the open purchase order book commercially. renegotiate, find alternatives or escape when dates are not held.
• Raise one purchase order per material requirement for the business.
• Ensure non MRP items carry correct requisition and sign off before a PO is raised.
• Keep PO numbering, part numbers and GL coding clean at entry.
• Resolve invoice, price and receipt queries with Finance; own Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) & Days of Inventory Outstanding (DIO).
• Own supplier base end to end: identification, approval, onboarding, performance and replacement.
• Negotiate price, lead time, minimum order quantities, call off schedules and payment terms.
• Select on total value: cost, quality, quantity, delivery and service.
• Consolidate demand across Gloucester and Swindon for volume pricing.
• Build a second source for every critical material; manage subcontract processing."
• Run supplier reviews on data: on-time delivery, rejects, responsiveness.

Skills

Procurement experience

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Communication

Multitasking

Travel willingness

Continuous improvement

Attention to detail

Education

CIPS qualification

Tools

SYSPRO

ERP/MRP systems

Job description

ICOMAT in Gloucester and Swindon is seeking a Procurement Buyer who owns every supplier—selection, price, terms, and performance—across two sites. You will turn demand into purchase orders in SYSPRO, manage the open PO book, and secure deliveries at the right price, with the right paperwork, on the agreed dates.

This role focuses on negotiating best value, driving supplier performance, and keeping MRP/ERP data clean to protect project timelines.