Senior Program Purchasing Lead

Safran est un groupe international de haute technologie opérant dans les domaines de l'aéronautique, de l'espace et de la défense. Sa mission : contribuer durablement à un monde plus sûr, où le transport aérien devient toujours plus respectueux de l'environnement, plus confortable et plus accessible.

SLS est le leader mondial des trains d'atterrissage, roues & freins, et systèmes associés, pour avions civils, militaires, hélicoptères. Nous maîtrisons l'ensemble du cycle de vie de nos produits, de la conception et la fabrication jusqu'à la maintenance.

Descriptif mission :

• Act as the senior Purchasing focal point within the Integrated Program Team (IPT) for a program or program family covering Build-to-Print (BTP), Build-to-Specification (BTS), systems, equipment, services, and related recurring.
• Provide cross functional leadership, coordination, and guidance to Program Purchasing team members, establishing priorities, allocating activities, resolving conflicts, and ensuring consistent execution across the full program scope.
• Ensure Program, Production, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and Purchasing strategies and priorities are fully aligned, clearly communicated, and respected by all relevant stakeholders.
• Represent Program Purchasing in key program governance meetings, executive reviews, escalations, supplier reviews providing clear recommendations and decision ready information.
• Coordinate closely with Purchasing Site Leaders, Commodity Managers, Commodity Buyers, and Industrialization Leads, and other functions to ensure timely completion of Purchasing deliverables.
• Establish and maintain effective Program Purchasing governance, routines, and ways of working, including regular progress reviews, action tracking, prioritization, and escalation paths.
• Prepare, maintain, and drive Program Purchasing documentation and management tools, including the Program Purchasing Plan, Purchasing Roadmap, integrated activity plan, dashboards, cost models, risk registers, and program overviews.
• Lead the Purchasing contribution to bids, estimates, and program financial reviews. Ensure recurring cost (RC) and non-recurring cost (NRC) targets, budgets, assumptions, supplier quotations, contractual coverage, and cost evolution are accurate, current, and aligned with the Program and Commodity Purchasing teams.
• Coordinate Purchasing activities through major program milestones, from bid and supplier selection through development, industrialization, certification, production ramp-up, and in-service support.
• Ensure customer, technical, contractual, quality, cybersecurity, export control and logistical requirements are understood and flowed down to Purchasing teams and suppliers as applicable.
• Drive procurement schedule performance, including RFQ launch and quotation receipt, supplier selection, contractualization, purchase-order placement, industrialization, capacity validation, and delivery readiness.
• Anticipate and secure critical and long lead requirements, including raw materials, forgings, billets, bars, tooling, and supplier capacity, while considering market conditions, lead times, cost exposure, and production ramp up needs.
• Identify, assess, and proactively manage Program Purchasing risks and opportunities in accordance with Safran requirements. Lead mitigation plans, remove cross functional bottlenecks, and escalate critical issues with proposed recovery actions.

Qualifications :

• University or College degree/diploma, preferably in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field.
• Typically, 7 or more years of progressive experience in Purchasing, Supply Chain, Program Management, Engineering, or a related discipline, preferably in aerospace or another highly regulated industry.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex development or industrial programs and coordinating cross-functional or transversal teams without direct authority.
• Solid understanding of product development, industrialization, manufacturing processes, supplier capacity, and program milestone management.
• Working knowledge of APQP, DVI/PPAP, AS9100, risk management, change control, export control, and applicable customer or regulatory requirements.
• Knowledge of strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, contract management, cost analysis, recurring and non-recurring cost control, and purchasing.
• Strong analytical, financial, and project management skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear priorities, recommendations, and executive-level summaries.
• Proven ability to anticipate risks, lead recovery plans, make sound recommendations, and influence decisions across multiple functions and organizational levels.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to lead senior level meetings and supplier discussions.
• Strongly organized, rigorous, proactive, and results oriented, with demonstrated tenacity and relationship building capability.
• Ability to coach and guide team members, promote collaboration, and drive consistent ways of working.
• Fluent in English, French is an asset.

Feeling hesitant because you don't meet all of the job requirements? Don't be! Safran Landing Systems (SafranLS) is committed to creating an inclusive, diverse and equitable team and encourages all applicants to apply.

SafranLS offers accommodations for people with disabilities in all parts of the hiring process and will work with applicants to meet accommodation needs that are made known to SafranLS in advance.