Senior Supply Chain Buyer
Company
Location
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Posted At
3/27/2025
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Description
Job Description
The opportunity
Leonardo is a global leader in defence electronics and delivers mission critical systems for situational awareness, electronic warfare and surveillance across land, sea and air. The Radar and Advanced Targeting line of business, based in Edinburgh, is uniquely positioned as one of the world's top manufacturers of radars, lasers and infra-red countermeasure systems.
An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen to join our Edinburgh Supply Chain function as a Senior Supply Chain Buyer in our Radar and Advanced Targeting line of business. The successful candidate will report to the Supply Chain Team Leader for the specific sector.
What you’ll do as a Senior Supply Chain Buyer
The Senior Supply Chain Buyer will be responsible and accountable for the acquisition of material from our external supply chain partners ensuring that supply meets our MRP demand. The Senior Supply Chain Buyer will use the defined Supply Chain reporting toolsets to manage and develop suppliers.
Key Responsibility Areas
You really must have
You must be eligible for full security clearance. For more information and guidance please visit https //www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels
Life at Leonardo
With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.
Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 8,000 are based at 8 sites throughout the UK.
At Leonardo UK, we believe that a diverse and inclusive work environment unlocks our people’s full potential and drives innovation and creativity. We work hard to offer a welcoming, accessible and inclusive place to work for all of our people, creating a culture where everyone can thrive, feel safe and have a sense of belonging and connection.
Primary Location
GB - Edinburgh
Contract Type
Hybrid Working
Hybrid
The opportunity
Leonardo is a global leader in defence electronics and delivers mission critical systems for situational awareness, electronic warfare and surveillance across land, sea and air. The Radar and Advanced Targeting line of business, based in Edinburgh, is uniquely positioned as one of the world's top manufacturers of radars, lasers and infra-red countermeasure systems.
An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen to join our Edinburgh Supply Chain function as a Senior Supply Chain Buyer in our Radar and Advanced Targeting line of business. The successful candidate will report to the Supply Chain Team Leader for the specific sector.
What you’ll do as a Senior Supply Chain Buyer
The Senior Supply Chain Buyer will be responsible and accountable for the acquisition of material from our external supply chain partners ensuring that supply meets our MRP demand. The Senior Supply Chain Buyer will use the defined Supply Chain reporting toolsets to manage and develop suppliers.
Key Responsibility Areas
- Manage portfolio of external supply chain partners & associated purchase orders
- Chairing regular reviews with suppliers
- Ensure material supply meets MRP demand
- Ensure timely issuance and submission of responses to standard SC toolset including
- Be accountable for the management of Supplier delivery performance throughout the Contract lifecycle in line with defined Key Performance Indicators (KPI's).
- Identify risk and opportunity, working collaboratively with stakeholders to help define mitigation activities.
- Maintain joint action plans using SharePoint Portal
- Deploy the appropriate SAP activity in order to carry out your job effectively e.g. PO date maintenance
- Support and mentor team members
You really must have
- Awareness of Trade / Export Compliance
- Negotiation skills
- Ability to influence
- Effective and flexible communication skills
- IT literate (must have MS Office, Excel & SAP knowledge)
- CIPS accreditation or working towards, but not essential
- Exposure to defence/aerospace contracting
You must be eligible for full security clearance. For more information and guidance please visit https //www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels
Life at Leonardo
With a company funded benefits package, a commitment to learning and development, and a flexible approach to working hours focused on the needs of both our employees and customers, a career with Leonardo has never offered as many opportunities or been more accessible to as many people.
- Flexible Working Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us
- Company funded flexible benefits Access to private healthcare, dental schemes, Workplace ISA, Go Green Car Scheme, technology and lifestyle options (£500 annual allowance)
- Holidays 25 days plus bank holidays, option to buy/sell leave and to accrue up to 12 additional flexi leave days per year
- Pension Award winning pension scheme (up to 15% employer contribution)
- Wellbeing Employee Assistance Programme with access to free mental health support, financial wellbeing support and network groups to demonstrate our ongoing commitment to diversity & inclusion (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity)
- Lifestyle Discounted Gym membership, Cycle to work scheme
- Training Free access to more than 4000 online courses via Coursera and Linkedin Learning
- Referral Incentive You can earn a reward for successfully referring a friend or family member
- Bonus Scheme in place for all employees at management level and below
Leonardo is a global high-tech company and one of the key players in Aerospace, Defence and Security. Headquartered in Italy, Leonardo has over 45,000 employees, of which 8,000 are based at 8 sites throughout the UK.
At Leonardo UK, we believe that a diverse and inclusive work environment unlocks our people’s full potential and drives innovation and creativity. We work hard to offer a welcoming, accessible and inclusive place to work for all of our people, creating a culture where everyone can thrive, feel safe and have a sense of belonging and connection.
Primary Location
GB - Edinburgh
Contract Type
Hybrid Working
Hybrid
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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