Senior Buyer – Space Careers Brampton

Overview

Position Title: Senior Buyer

Company: MDA

Location: Brampton, On, Canada

Job Description

The Senior Buyer will work closely with the Operations and product development teams to source, negotiate and procure, materials and services to meet the company’s operational requirements in line with company objectives. Taking in to account price, quality and delivery and to ensure continuity of supply.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure continuous supply of required goods and materials and communicate any supply issues, which may pose a risk or impact on business delivery targets or customer expectations.
• Research and evaluate areas of opportunity and reduce costs where possible.
• Develop creative and innovative procurement processes
• Develop ideas and strategies to improve operational efficiency, add value, aid business performance and work towards a strategy of continuous improvement.
• Negotiate contracts, improved prices and terms of business with suppliers and review opportunities to make business savings utilizing negotiation and procurement best practice tools and methods.
• Access and evaluate suppliers and undertake performance reviews to ensure contract compliance and manage performance improvement activities.
• Effectively interact cross-functionally primarily with Planning, Quality, Engineering, Production, Finance, Materials and other Departments as required.
• Competency using ERP and PLM software packages

Requirements:

• Effectively manage multiple competing priorities
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and time management skills
• Initiative to investigate problems, develop solutions and obtain results
• Working knowledge of the CGRP, ITAR and Offsets