Role: NPI Buyer Location: Cheltenham Duration: 12 months Rate: 25.99/hour PAYE About our client: Our client is a leading aerospace engineering company specializing in jet engines, avionics, and integrated systems for both military and commercial aircraft. They operate major UK facilities, including maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) sites. Purpose of the role The Buyer / Fulfiller supports the NPI Program Sourcing Leads with the day-to-day work that keeps programmes on schedule: raising and managing purchase orders, keeping the orderbook accurate, chasing deliveries and getting First Article Inspection (FAI) approvals signed off. You take direction from one or more Program Sourcing Leads and make sure the right parts arrive at the right time, to the right quality, on the agreed terms. Core Responsibilities Raise and manage purchase orders for the programmes you support, with the right prices, terms and delivery dates. Create, change, acknowledge and close purchase orders in the ERP system against programme demand. Keep the orderbook accurate day to day (dates, quantities and acknowledgements) and keep the system tidy. Work the open orderbook daily, clearing past-due, unconfirmed and mismatched lines. Chase suppliers to confirm and meet their delivery dates and pull orders in or push them out as priorities change. Line up First Article Inspections with suppliers, Quality and Engineering, and track them through to approval. Flag supply risks, shortages and late ..... full job details .....