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Summary: This role involves efficiently managing procurement for components and general expenses, ensuring timely delivery, cost-effectiveness, and quality standards while supporting team performance and company profitability. Highlights: 1. Manage procurement of raw materials and general expenses 2. Ensure delivery timelines, cost, quantity, and quality standards 3. Support team performance and maximize company profitability Published 05\.12\.2026 Company : Safran Aerosystems Job field : Purchasing Location : Chihuahua , Mexico Contract type : Permanent Contract duration : Full\-time Required degree : Bachelor's Degree Required experience : More than 3 years Professional status : Administrative staff Spoken language(s) : English Fluent \# 2026\-179571 Published 05\.12\.2026 **Job Description** ------------------- Efficiently carry out procurement activities for components (raw materials) and certain general expenses for the assigned division. Through effective communication with the Materials and Manufacturing teams, ensure delivery timelines, cost, quantities, and expected quality standards are met, in alignment with the company's inventory objectives. The role may support more than one division, while also ensuring system integrity and enabling strong team performance, meeting customer needs, and maximizing company profitability. Material procurement; knowledge of the materials area (purchasing, inventory control, warehousing, shipping, and planning); implementation of engineering changes (ECN); MRP; inventory management models (basic level); JIT systems (basic level); Kanban systems; full proficiency in arithmetic operations; strong focus on meeting performance metrics. **Job Requirements** -------------------- Strong analytical skills; ability to work effectively with constantly changing priorities and deadlines; leadership skills (ability to organize and lead teams); teamwork; initiative; dynamic; responsible; trustworthy; adaptable; eagerness and ability to learn; excellent verbal and written communication skills; customer\-oriented, with a focus on meeting the needs of both internal and external clients; ability to deliver presentations in public in both Spanish and English. **But what else? (advantages, specific features, etc.)** -------------------------------------------------------- Purchase Order (PO) creation * Send monthly procurement plan to suppliers (raw materials) * Review and analyze purchase orders according to planning, approved by the buyer * Issue purchase orders to suppliers and request delivery dates * Follow up on purchase orders (POs) * Ensure suppliers comply with the delivery plan * Shortage management * Supplier priority management * Manage ERP planning messages (expedite, defer, cancellations) and develop action plans * Handle supplier\-related conflicts * Manage and follow up on returns to suppliers * Handle receiving discrepancies (quantities, documentation, etc.) * Manage shipping discrepancies * Master procurement planning * Review and update the master procurement plan * Analyze alignment between internal planning and customer planning (interface with corporate teams) * Send planning according to schedule, at least monthly * Inventory management * Support warehouse operations to ensure inventory accuracy * Minimize inventory investment * Prevent obsolescence * Ensure quality and integrity of data for material planning * Provide feedback to the Materials Manager regarding errors or potential parameter optimization **Company Information** ----------------------- Safran is an international high\-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27\.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets. Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking. Safran Aerosystems is one of the world leaders in aviation systems dedicated to aircraft and helicopter safety, as well as fluid and fuel management. The company is a key player in the field of flight safety (oxygen, evacuation, floatation) and participates in the decarbonization of aviation through enabling sustainable alternative fuels and new engine architectures. It has 5,200 employees in 7 countries. ### **Locate your future workplace** Av Ishikawa \# 1001 31170 Chihuahua Mexico