Buyer – High Wycombe Copello are working with a defence client who are looking for a Buyer to join the Procurement team. You would be responsible for managing the end-to-end supply chain by ensuring effective procurement and competitive sourcing of materials, components, major work packages, and services, deploying appropriate commodity strategies aligned with business needs, driving supplier performance to meet SOTIF and SDPPM targets and identifying cost-saving opportunities through process improvements to support year-on-year savings against standard costs. Key responsibilities * Manage the end-to-end supply chain relationship with a specified group of vendors so as to ensure the best possible quality, cost, delivery and overall supplier reliability for the Business * Negotiate and issue purchase orders directed by purchase requisition from planner or MRP action message and in accordance with planned inventory strategies * Review MRP requirements to ensure component deliveries are scheduled in line with production requirements; reviewing and issuing purchase orders and making necessary changes to requirements, schedule and price * Analyse and process supplier notifications * Manage the communication of and expedition of all engineering changes and schedule changes * Monitor the delivery status of scheduled receipts to ensure on time delivery to need * Apply SOF principles to build and manage effectiv...