Buyer

Om företaget
GKN Aerospace is one of the world’s largest independent first tier suppliers to the global aviation
industry. With over 100 year’s aerospace experience, we harness our considerable knowledge and
advanced manufacturing technologies to supply high-value, integrated assemblies in both metallic and
composite materials.

GKN Aerospace Sweden AB, with 2000 employees, is located in Trollhättan Sweden. GKN Aerospace
Sweden AB is a part of GKN Aerospace Engine Systems (“AES”). AES have 4,000 people working in
12 manufacturing sites in Sweden, Norway, USA and Mexico.

Dina arbetsuppgifter
This Buyer role will support the direct procurement at GKN Aerospace Sweden, mainly with
machined and fabricated parts. The role requires both strategic and operational skills together with
high ability to work autonomously to meet the objectives. You will have close collaboration with
internal and global stakeholders such as production and value streams, strategic planning,
engineering, legal, and the commodity team.

Key Responsibilities
We are looking for someone that is interested in working as a buyer with responsibility to handle
ongoing contracts with suppliers and to be responsible for the service level of your suppliers. You will
mainly work within the commodity of Machining and Fabrication
- Purchase of Production material
- Manage changes in demand and update delivery schedules to the suppliers
- Manage performance of your suppliers including supplier relations
- Participate in production planning to secure production availability.
- Monitor deliveries
- Responsible for site procurement change control, export control and ITAR fulfilment
- Managing your suppliers to fulfill their responsibilities according to the contract
- Support in developing and implementing strategies in coordination with global Commodity
Management
- Working in a commodity, you will be part of a team with colleagues from other sites within
GKN Aerospace and responsible for implementing the strategies etc. in GKN Aerospace
Sweden.
- The working environment is international, with majority of the current suppliers located in
Europe and USA.
- Responsibilities for KPI’s such as, Purchase order arrears, inventory, product price variance
and on-time delivery

Din profil
Qualifications / Experience / Skills
We are looking for someone who has a business mindset and is interested in a proactive way of
working with a high technical content. We believe a successful candidate will possess the following
qualities:
- Target oriented and a proactive way of acting
- Able to work independently, within a team and as a team leader
- Creative both in way of thinking and acting
- A high degree of flexibility to adapt to new situations
- Always a lean and solution oriented approach
- Customer focus and supplier relation skills
- Minimum bachelor degree in engineering and/or economics
- Very good English skills both oral and written
- Proficient in MS Office tools and SAP
- Knowledge of aerospace products and technologies is preferable
- 1-3 years’ experience from Commercial assignment

Om oss
Our partner is the recruitment company Premier. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to call recruitment consultant / consulting manager Anders Kristiansen on tel. 0707-858647. You can send in your application via Premier's website, www.premier.se as soon as possible, but no later than 2022-07-30. In this process, we will work with ongoing selection, so feel free to send your application today.
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