Senior Buyer & Strategic Sourcing Specialist

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Buyer & Strategic Sourcing Specialist based in United States. The Senior Buyer & Strategic Sourcing Specialist will help manage and scale procurement and supply chain operations within a fast-growing, mission-driven environment. This hands-on role combines day-to-day purchasing with strategic sourcing across technical components, hardware, materials, and manufactured goods. You will partner closely with Engineering, Hardware, Manufacturing, Finance, and Program teams to ensure materials are sourced at the right cost, quality, and timing. The role also focuses on anticipating supply risks, strengthening supplier relationships, and improving procurement predictability. You will help establish scalable processes, strengthen supplier quality and compliance, and improve visibility across the supply chain. This is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership of procurement operations while helping build a more structured and resilient supply function. Accountabilities: - Own the end-to-end purchasing process for hardware, components, materials, and other operational requirements, from requisition through delivery. - Source, evaluate, negotiate with, and manage suppliers to optimize cost, quality, lead times, availability, and commercial terms. - Lead RFP and RFQ processes for strategic sourcing, major components, contract manufacturing, and other procurement requirements. - Negotiate pricing, payment terms, minimum order quantities, lead times, and other supplier agreements. - Manage purchase orders, order confirmations, delivery schedules, expedites, and supplier follow-up. - Partner with Engineering, Program, and Production teams to understand bills of materials, production schedules, engineering changes, and upcoming material requirements. - Support new product introductions by incorporating sourcing and material requirements early in the development process.

- Proactively identify supply constraints, long-lead items, component obsolescence, and supplier risks before they affect programs or customer delivery. - Manage DMSMS and component obsolescence risks through mitigation strategies such as alternative sourcing and lifetime buys. - Monitor inventory requirements and purchasing trends to improve material availability while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory. - Track key supply chain metrics, including supplier performance, lead times, on-time delivery, purchase price variance, and material availability. - Partner with Finance to ensure purchasing decisions align with budgets, forecasts, and approval processes. - Support the shipment of production hardware and equipment to customers and field teams when required. - Manage supplier selection, qualification, performance, ongoing relationships, and Approved Supplier List maintenance. - Maintain supplier documentation, including certifications, vendor surveys, W-9s, and other required records. - Ensure purchase orders include applicable Supplier Quality Requirements and contractual flowdowns. - Maintain receiving documentation such as packing slips, Certificates of Conformance, and incoming inspection records within procurement systems. - Support counterfeit parts prevention, authorized distributor sourcing, supplier corrective actions, and non-conformance resolution. - Ensure procurement activities comply with applicable company, customer, contractual, quality, and regulatory requirements. - Improve procurement workflows, documentation, reporting, operating processes, and data accuracy across business systems. - Identify manual or inefficient processes and implement improvements that increase visibility, predictability, and scalability across procurement and supply chain operations. Requirements: - 5+ years of experience in purchasing, procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain, or a related function.