Director of Purchasing

DEDIENNE AEROSPACE: World leader for civil and defense aerospace tooling and ground support equipment generates value for its customers by offering world-class products and services, including design engineering, large manufacturing capacities, and worldwide after-sales services.

DEDIENNE AEROSPACE has been chosen as a key partner by several leading OEMs in the aerospace industry. As we accelerate our development within the US market, we are looking for individuals who share our passion for excellence.

With locations in Florida, Ohio, Texas, and other states coming soon, DEDIENNE AEROSPACE is strategically positioned to support the US aerospace industry. Our global presence ensures we can offer our customers the best worldwide support.

We are looking for an experienced and strategic Purchasing Director to lead our purchasing department for the Americas sites (USA, MX and CAN). The Purchasing Director will play a crucial role in managing the complete procurement process, which involves identifying reliable suppliers, negotiating advantageous contracts, and fostering strong vendor relationships. This position is vital in ensuring the timely and cost-effective acquisition of goods and services, contributing to our organization's overall efficiency and success. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional negotiation skills and a keen understanding of market trends to secure the best possible prices for our company.

Committed to achieving high performance and success, you are looking to join a dynamic and innovative organization. Your strong management skills allow you to work closely with other departments and identify internal areas for growth and development. At DEDIENNE AEROSPACE, our history of success demonstrates our dedication to individuals prepared to contribute to our ongoing growth and achievements.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop competitive negotiations to drive cost reduction initiatives with the global supply base, while meeting capacity and quality requirements.
• Manage supplier contracts and long-term agreements with preferred suppliers to ensure that market trends, supplier performance, and future business needs are aligned.
• Collaborate with supporting resources (Engineering, Quality, Global Supply Chains, Logistics, and Regional Teams) to achieve plan, ensure adequate cycle time to procure materials, and escalate critical materials from supplier base to meet customer demands.
• Leads teams in identification of opportunities to meet objectives for supplier reduction, creation of value, supply chain improvement, and customer satisfaction.
• This position will execute events across multiple categories and is a key position in delivering cost savings targets.
• Will need to network across our company and build strong relationships with stakeholders and develop negotiation strategies which help support their business.
• Identify opportunities for competitive bidding.
  
  

Development of existing purchasing network.

Requirements

• Experience in aviation tooling procurement and sourcing.
• Ability to successfully manage complexity and multiple priorities.
• Ability to analyze complex data sets, distill key insights into action, and create compelling business recommendations.
• Thorough knowledge of aircraft and turbine engine technical publications (blueprints, EM's, IPC's, etc.)
• Metal-mechanical manufacturing processes knowledge and shop environment scheduling skills.
• Experience in made to order production model.
• Knowledge of inventory management and/or warehousing management information systems
• Develops, maintains, evaluates, and manages tooling logistics programs including coordination for operations, planning, maintenance and dispatching
• Performs purchasing management operations that involve planning, coordinating, or evaluating the procurement's actions required to support multiple tools
• Knowledge of planning, programming, budgeting and executing of purchasing and supply chain programs.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Availability to travel 50% of the time.
  
  

COMPETENCIES

• Bachelor's in Mechanical engineering plus 10 years of experience or Master Degree plus 7 years of experience.
• Experience in the aviation tooling industry is required.
• Minimum of 5 years of Purchasing related experience or demonstrated knowledge, skills, and abilities to performs the above- mentioned tasks.
• Knowledge of machine shop environment.
  
  

Compensation

• Competitive base salary plus bonuses
• Excellent benefits package
  
  

Additional Requirements

• Employment is contingent upon the satisfactory outcome of pre-employment screening activities, including a background check.
• Eligible to work for any employer within the US.