Senior Buyer

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Position Summary

Reporting to Metrea’s Procurement Manager, this role will primarily execute and manage end-to-end procurement activities across the UK and EU operations. This role balances day-to-day tactical purchasing with proactive commercial delivery, ensuring continuity of supply, strict cost control, and rigorous supplier contract compliance across borders. This role requires the ability to operate effectively in a multicultural, multilingual supplier environment with experience sourcing across multiple European markets. 

What You'll Do

Procurement Execution 

• Execute end-to-end tactical purchasing activities, converting business requisitions into robust purchase orders (POs) and contracts, ensuring timely delivery and product quality
• Resolve issues as they occur and mitigate Aircraft on Ground (AOG) root causes

Supplier Coordination 

• Manage day-to-day operational issues with UK and EU suppliers, acting as the primary escalation point for delivery or quality defects
• Support commercial negotiations on mid-tier contracts, focusing on price, service levels, and payment terms (optimizing working capital)
• Monitor and report on supplier KPIs, contract compliance, and savings KPIs

Cost & Process Control 

• Maintain procurement data accuracy
• Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities

Stakeholder Support 

• Work closely with internal stakeholders to support business requirements to ensure demand requirements are met
• Parter with Logistics to verify the origin of goods to claim tariff-free movement

Compliance 

• Ensure compliance with internal policies and UK/EU regulatory frameworks including GDPR, Modern Slavery Act, and relevant procurement legislation
• Drive ESG and sustainability initiatives within the supply base, including carbon reduction and ethical sourcing

What You Bring

• Minimum 3-5 years of Procurement experience
• Experience in Aerospace / Defence / Aerospace Maintenance environment 
• Demonstrated effective purchase order management
• Demonstrated strong negotiation skills
• Ability to operate effectively in a multicultural, multilingual supplier environment
• Proficiency in Familiarity with ERP systems (e.g., AMOS, D365)
• Able to work autonomously as well as work with and influence stakeholders
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to quickly synthesize, distil and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data
• Proficiency in understanding and utilizing appropriate Incoterms and import/export requirements

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Experience sourcing across multiple European markets with understanding of regional supplier dynamics
• CIPS qualified or equivalent procurement certification preferred
• Ability to interpret technical drawings and specifications

Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance    
• Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub    
• Electric Car scheme    
• Cycle to work scheme    
• Salary sacrificed pension scheme    
• Free lunch on office days   
• Enhanced Parental Leave   
• 30 days annual PTO plus b/h  
• Bonus Scheme  
• Personal development opportunities 

Work Authorization / Security Clearance

The employee will have the legal right to work in the UK and will be able to produce right to work documentation.    

AAP/EEO Statement

Metrea Management Limited (MAM) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 

Work Environment

Hybrid , Hammersmith, 3 days per week.

Travel

10-20% 

Our Firmware

At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.

Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.