What you’ll do:

• Actively manage and develop team members.
• Agree and measure challenging targets, achieving these through process improvement, working across team boundaries and within a self-learning culture.
• Ensuring compliance with Engineering Policy, Statutory Airworthiness requirements, Safety Standards, Company Standing Instructions and Health and Safety Legislation.
• Manage the repair and overhaul of material within internal workshops and subcontracted suppliers.
• Manage budgets ensuring total cost of ownership.
• Plan and manage the material requirements for Aircraft and Programmes modifications.
• Ensure all quotes, scrap and exchanges are actioned in the Service Centre teams as well as actioning of planned orders and purchase orders.
• Be the focal within the Commercial & Supply Chain organisation for the ownership & escalation of all critical/AOG material issues.
• Evaluate potential suppliers and take responsibility for subsequent sourcing decisions.
• Maintain the contractual arrangements that exist with suppliers, seeking opportunities to reduce complexity, reduce costs and improve services for your category.
• Ensure the value negotiated in any contract is maintained through its life by continual assessment of current available data, making changes as required through

What you’ll bring to British Airways:

• Proven procurement experience.
• Proven inventory management experience.
• Demonstrable ability to identify root cause issues and deliver effective solutions
• Coaching & interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrate effective presentation, written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Long term problem solving.
• IT and SAP literacy, and particularly MRP.
• Customer focus.
• Ability to manage spend within budget.
• Innovative and adaptable to the management of change.

Your experience:

• Formal business related qualification to HNC / HND or equivalent experience.