Operational Buyer - Intern
Date: Mar 4, 2025
Location: Bristol, GB
Company: GKN Aerospace Careers
Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job Summary
GKN Aerospace is the world's leading independent first tier supplier of aircraft structures, components, assemblies and engineering services to the Global Aviation Market.
We’re seeking an intern to join our Procurement Department in Filton, Bristol. This exciting role offers hands-on experience in procurement operations, supplier management, and project leadership within a leading engineering organisation. You’ll manage supplier accounts, drive improvement projects, and contribute to delivering key performance objectives.
How You'll Contribute!
The role offers the opportunity to gain valuable experience in all aspects of procurement as well as the experience of working within a leading engineering organisation.
Working within the Procurement operations team, this role will be accountable for the management of numerous small to medium supplier accounts. The role will also include project management of various supplier improvement projects,
within the Procurement organisation. The role requires leadership skills to deliver against supplier and business performance objectives focused on procured parts delivery.
Key Accountabilities will be:
- Accountability for the supplier relationship and daily interface
- Project management of supplier improvement projects and accountable for ongoing supplier performance
- Accountable for ensuring 100% on time delivery from suppliers
- Daily communication with internal and external customers
- Accountable for ensuring a monthly multi-function team (MFT) review is taking place with key suppliers
- Accountable for the daily maintenance of supplier promise dates to ensure that the most up-to-date and accurate information is held
- Contribute towards and support the Procurement Operations Manager to deliver the sales, inventory and operations performance forecast monthly and support delivery of the forecast
- Ownership of the supplier scorecard process to ensure that supplier performance is communicated to all levels of the supplier and is regularly reviewed as part of the MFT reviews
- Ensure prompt supplier payment by clearing any invoice queries
Required
Applicants should be studying towards a business related degree and have the
following capabilities:
- Excellent computer skills (MS Office, Excel and PowerPoint)
- Good team working skills
- Excellent writtenand verbal communication skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Good organisational and decision making skills
- Good commercial acumen
What We'll Offer!
Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:
- Competitive salary dependent on experience
- Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
- Life Assurance 8 x salary
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Flexible working hours including the ability to finish at 12noon on a Friday
- Income protection
- Shopping discounts
- Cycle To Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Virtual GP Clinic for you and immediate family
- A collaborative, dynamic working environment
As well as a competitive package we’ll offer you a world of opportunity. We want to see your career fly! We’ll support your career progression by providing you with learning and development opportunities. That’s the beauty of being part of a global business, once you’re on board you never know where you career journey may take you!
We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
