Junior Buyer
Company
Location
Christchurch, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
5/21/2025
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Description
We are looking for a Junior Buyer to join our Christchurch, Dorset team!
As a Junior Buyer for our Christchurch location, you will build relationships with suppliers and exceed our customers’ expectations. Analyse demands and consider different ways of working with our suppliers to sustain continuity of supply e.g. consignment stock, vendor managed inventory etc. Contain and avoid material cost increases and achieve a year-on-year cost reduction within the defined area of responsibility.
This role requires a dynamic and energetic Buyer capable of solving the root cause of problems and delivering the solution. They shall operate in a fast-paced environment and shall be capable of being flexible in managing and prioritising a number of issues. A highly varied role where negotiation and influencing skills will be utilised. The role also requires an individual who can span both day to day operational demands and strategic supply chain activities.
Location: Christchurch, Dorset
We Take Care of Our People
Work-life balance through our Hybrid working, flexitime program and condensed work week (role dependent) I Paid Time Off I Retirement with Employer Match I Health and Wellness Benefits I Learning and Development Opportunities I Competitive Pay I Bonus Scheme I Recognition I Employee Stock Purchase Plan I Inclusive & Supportive Culture *
Your Challenge
What You Bring:
Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solution division is a trusted, proven leader, delivering superior products and services that meet the defense and aerospace industries' toughest challenges with best-in-class value. In 2017, Curtiss-Wright relocated its Avionics, Sensors & Controls and Industrial Business Units into a brand new, purpose-built 160,000 ft2 facility at Bournemouth International Airport.
The state-of-the-art facility has extensive design and manufacturing capabilities as well as in-house environmental stress screening. The facility is committed to quality and excellence in manufacturing for our flight recorder, air data computer, video management systems, computing systems, mission displays and video recorder products.
As the design center of excellence for flight recorders and air data computers, the units had to be lightweight and small – crash survivability requirements exceeding the existing standards for commercial aircraft.
Our Values
Environmental, Social and Governance
No unsolicited agency submittals please. Agency partners must be invited to participate in a search by our Talent Acquisition Team and have signed terms in place prior to any submittal. Resumes submitted directly to any Curtiss-Wright employee or affiliate will not qualify for fee payment, and therefore become the property of Curtiss-Wright.
Compliance Statement
This position may require exposure to export-controlled information and subject to additional security screening. In the event information provided during the security screening reveals ineligibility to access export-controlled information, any offer of employment may be reconsidered or withdrawn.
Curtiss-Wright is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, age, ancestry, legally protected medical condition, family care status, marital status, religion, veteran status, national origin, or any other legally protected status. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition.
For US Applicants: EEO is The Law – click here for more information.
If you require accommodation due to a disability at any time during the recruitment and/or assessment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.
As a Junior Buyer for our Christchurch location, you will build relationships with suppliers and exceed our customers’ expectations. Analyse demands and consider different ways of working with our suppliers to sustain continuity of supply e.g. consignment stock, vendor managed inventory etc. Contain and avoid material cost increases and achieve a year-on-year cost reduction within the defined area of responsibility.
This role requires a dynamic and energetic Buyer capable of solving the root cause of problems and delivering the solution. They shall operate in a fast-paced environment and shall be capable of being flexible in managing and prioritising a number of issues. A highly varied role where negotiation and influencing skills will be utilised. The role also requires an individual who can span both day to day operational demands and strategic supply chain activities.
Location: Christchurch, Dorset
We Take Care of Our People
Work-life balance through our Hybrid working, flexitime program and condensed work week (role dependent) I Paid Time Off I Retirement with Employer Match I Health and Wellness Benefits I Learning and Development Opportunities I Competitive Pay I Bonus Scheme I Recognition I Employee Stock Purchase Plan I Inclusive & Supportive Culture *
Your Challenge
- Purchase components as required and directed in line with requirements generated via the MRP system, ensuring OTIF requirements are achieved.
- Review MRP requirements and make informed decisions from outcome. This will include the push out and pull in of demand driven by the planning system.
- Undertake operational tasks as required e.g. proactively expedite orders to ensure there is no impact to operational and end customer demand.
- With a full understanding of our supplier capabilities, issue Requests for Quotations in line with business demand for current or new business opportunities.
- Conduct supplier negotiations for both current and new business.
- Ensure all purchasing activities are completed in a controlled and professional manner in line with the demands of the business.
- Support the development of suppliers in line with the needs of the business with specific focus on Growth and Innovation.
- Perform other such duties commensurate with the nature and level of the post as may be reasonably required.
- Support the Purchasing Manager with the selection and development of preferred suppliers and collaborative partnerships
- Interface with other departments to resolve problems.
What You Bring:
- Experience in a purchasing role
- Computer literate and competent with MS Office
- Working knowledge of MRP systems
- Diligent and well organised
- Good negotiation skills
- Degree in a business related topic (engineering, business etc).
- Formal Purchasing qualifications/training and/or willingness to learn
- Ability to read engineering drawings
- An engineering background / qualification
- Experience of working in the Aerospace industry with specific exposure of purchasing of electronic components, printed circuit board assemblies, machining, fabrication
Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solution division is a trusted, proven leader, delivering superior products and services that meet the defense and aerospace industries' toughest challenges with best-in-class value. In 2017, Curtiss-Wright relocated its Avionics, Sensors & Controls and Industrial Business Units into a brand new, purpose-built 160,000 ft2 facility at Bournemouth International Airport.
The state-of-the-art facility has extensive design and manufacturing capabilities as well as in-house environmental stress screening. The facility is committed to quality and excellence in manufacturing for our flight recorder, air data computer, video management systems, computing systems, mission displays and video recorder products.
As the design center of excellence for flight recorders and air data computers, the units had to be lightweight and small – crash survivability requirements exceeding the existing standards for commercial aircraft.
Our Values
Environmental, Social and Governance
No unsolicited agency submittals please. Agency partners must be invited to participate in a search by our Talent Acquisition Team and have signed terms in place prior to any submittal. Resumes submitted directly to any Curtiss-Wright employee or affiliate will not qualify for fee payment, and therefore become the property of Curtiss-Wright.
Compliance Statement
This position may require exposure to export-controlled information and subject to additional security screening. In the event information provided during the security screening reveals ineligibility to access export-controlled information, any offer of employment may be reconsidered or withdrawn.
Curtiss-Wright is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, age, ancestry, legally protected medical condition, family care status, marital status, religion, veteran status, national origin, or any other legally protected status. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition.
For US Applicants: EEO is The Law – click here for more information.
If you require accommodation due to a disability at any time during the recruitment and/or assessment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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