Senior Strategic Buyer

Description

Beewise is scaling toward serial production, and we’re looking for an experienced Senior Strategic Buyer to lead the commercial and contractual aspects of a large-scale procurement program involving multi-million-dollar annual spend.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with significant ownership of supplier negotiations, commercial agreements, cost optimization, and supply-risk management.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies to support serial production and scale-up.
• Take a hands-on role in leading negotiations with strategic suppliers and contract manufacturers, including pricing, payment terms, agreements, and supply commitments.
• Drive cost optimization through benchmarking, cost analysis, and volume-based negotiations.
• Manage commercial and supply risks related to lead times, MOQs, inventory, forecasts, capacity, and engineering changes.
• Develop alternative and dual-sourcing strategies for critical components.
• Partner closely with Operations, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Quality, and Supply Chain.
• Provide visibility into supplier readiness, commitments, savings, and key risks.
  
  

• 10+ years of strategic procurement or sourcing experience in hardware or manufacturing companies.
• Proven experience managing significant procurement spend and complex global supplier negotiations.
• Experience supporting NPI-to-serial-production transitions and production ramp-ups.
• Strong commercial understanding of supplier agreements, pricing, payment terms, and supply-chain risk.
• Experience sourcing electronic, electromechanical, and mechanical components and working with contract manufacturers.
• Strong negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Independent and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Fluent English; Spanish is an advantage.
• Willingness to travel internationally as needed.