Requirements
Ensure supplier and delivery commitments are met.
- Understand supplier lead times and logistic requirements to ensure inventory availability.
- Contract and supplier review
- Inventory availability
- Fill rates
- Annual supplier performance reviews
Collaborate with operations to define material service requirements.
- Manage purchase orders to meet organizational demands.
- Understand TechOps requirements; MEL, Deferred maintenance items, etc. to ensure aircraft reliability and readiness.
- Identify interchangeable parts and seek engineering approval to procure
- Manage backorder reports
- Expedite orders to meet urgent requirements
Develop and manage purchasing cost saving opportunities.
- Identify Supplier price breaks, minimum order quantities and compare to JIT requirements to achieve spend cost effectiveness.
- Streamline logistic requirements.
- Identify PMA & other cost saving opportunities
- Consolidate supplier orders and shipments
Support inventory planning to ensure inventory levels and fill rate are met
- Establish min max levels and to optimize inventory usage versus supplier lead times.
- Inventory turns
- Minimize surplus
Negotiate supplier agreements.
- Work with our partners to establish agreements with fixed pricing.
- Establish deliverables that support our inventory logistic needs.
- Establish approved price catalog
- Avoid purchases outside approved contracts
Decision Participant (Influences)
- Monitor supplier performance.
- Track & Manage borrows and loans.
- Continuous improvement; contracts and supplier annual performance reviews.
- Streamline logistic flow and sales cycle to ensure timely return of components.
- Supplier contract negotiations
- Inventory levels
- Min/Max requirements.
Functional Competencies
- Self-initiative and ability to work independently with little supervision.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Excellent computer skills; proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Must be able to work 12-hour shifts.
Behavioral Competencies
- “Safety always in everything we do, caring for others.”
- Demonstrate the ability to work through complexity to identify root causes and develop effective and simple solutions.
- Tenacious problem solving and continuous improvement mindset.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Foster and develop teamwork and leadership that embraces our company’s “Purpose, Values and Vision”.
Requirements
Basic Requirements
- Move throughout the office or line maintenance environments for extended periods of time (up to 10-12 hours per day).
- Ability to work through multiple problems/solutions prioritizing and sequencing the execution of issues to manage and resolve them quickly and effectively.
- Possible travel for supplier meetings, or issue resolution up to 25%.
- Comfortable and casual-dress business environment, with occasional requirement for full business attire for meetings or presentations.
Education / Experience Requirements
- College degree in business or related field preferred; in lieu of a degree a combination of relevant education and experience will be considered.
- 1+ years in airline / aviation experience or analytics
- Project management experience
- Previous purchasing and/or inventory planning experience
May perform other responsibilities, as assigned. Responsibilities and duties may change when circumstances dictate. (e.g., emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs or technical developments, etc.)
