Strategic Purchasing Manager - Aerospace & Defense

Senior plc; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

401K matching

Paid time off

Wellness benefits

Job summary

Senior plc is seeking a Purchasing Manager in California to lead strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and contract management. You will interview and hire staff, oversee training, and develop purchasing specifications while ensuring policy compliance. The role requires strong communication, budgeting, and ERP/MRP experience.

Join a collaborative team offering a market‑leading salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting or economics; seven years of progressively responsible experience in purchasing, including three years in the metal industry and two years local experience.
• Comprehensive knowledge of purchasing methods and procedures in the industry including versatility in the techniques of specification writing.
• Extensive knowledge of markets, particularly local sources of supply of market practices and pricing methods.
• Knowledge of MRP, MAPICS Manufacturing software; Microsoft Excel and Word.

Responsibilities

• Purchasing policy and planning
• Departmental staff recruitment, development, training and management
• Purchasing project prioritization and management
• Managing purchasing information and systems, and purchasing services
• Managing purchasing staff, suppliers, relationships, SLA’s (service level agreements)
• Setting (if no QA function), monitoring and managing quality and QA systems
• Effective proactive liaison with other departments as necessary to forecast, plan to meet, and to supply demand to relevant quality
• Effective proactive liaison with other departments regarding operating, resourcing services as necessary, e.g. IT
• Negotiating and administration of purchasing contracts
• Make or buy policy analysis and decisions
• Rent or buy policy evaluation and decision/ recommendation
• Cost saving budgeting and targeting
• Setting and planning how to achieve supplier accreditation and service level management
• Administration and reporting as necessary
• Accounting evaluation and financial justification including capital versus revenue
• Outsourcing strategy/ development/ management
• Payment terms negotiation, optimization and management
• Stock and materials management
• Warehousing, distribution, shipping management (if applicable, or effective liaison with these functions/ departments)
• Packaging and transport regulatory awareness, compliance and information communication
• Health and safety compliance
• International trading issues/ imports/ legal, awareness and management
• Follow all Senior policies and procedures.
• Other duties with the work as assigned.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting or economics

Seven years of progressively responsible experience in purchasing, including three years in the metal industry and two years local experience

Tools

MAPICS Manufacturing software

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Job description

Senior plc is seeking a Purchasing Manager in California to lead strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, and contract management. You will interview and hire staff, oversee training, and develop purchasing specifications while ensuring policy compliance. The role requires strong communication, budgeting, and ERP/MRP experience.

Join a collaborative team offering a market‑leading salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.