Senior Sourcing Specialist

<div>Join the Wingtra team and become part of this venture-backed robotics scaleup with a global and international team of 125+ dedicated Wingtranauts who want to see their actions have a positive and lasting impact on the world. Founded more than 8 years ago at ETH Zurich, Europe’s leading robotics university, our goal is to build the best aerial robots to digitize the world at the push of a button and set the basis for faster and better decisions. Wingtra provides efficient and reliable data solutions to a variety of industries ranging from mining, construction and agriculture to humanitarian organizations, environmentalists and wildlife monitoring groups. </div><div><br></div><div>We are reaching for the stars and together we might just get there. Open communication, asking hard questions and valuing diverse viewpoints are but a few things that will help us achieve our goals. Above all we will never stop learning and striving to help each other reach our maximum potential.</div><br><strong>Responsibilities</strong><br><div> <li>Plan your sourcing. You take the bill of materials and build a sourcing plan for each commodity. You weigh criticality, lead time and single or dual source options.</li> <li>Find the right suppliers. You run market scans, requests for information and requests for quote. Then you shortlist the suppliers worth a closer look.</li> <li>Judge capability together. You work with R&amp;D, Production, Finance and Compliance to build one clear view of what each supplier can do.</li> <li>Negotiate the deal. You agree pricing, volume tiers, tooling and payment terms. You also set up the NDAs, supply agreements and long-term agreements that back them.</li> <li>Set suppliers up properly. You onboard new suppliers and keep vendor data, price breaks and lead times current in our ERP system.</li> <li>Lead supplier qualification. You coordinate our tiered qualification process, including quality agreements and first-article inspections.</li> <li>Audit on site and remotely. You check suppliers for quality management, traceability and compliance. You also screen them against trade compliance requirements.</li> <li>Keep builds moving. You place and expedite orders for prototype, validation, pilot and pre-series builds. You track supplier performance on delivery, price and quality.</li> <li>Bring costs down. You work with suppliers on cost reduction, using should-cost and landed-cost models.</li> <li>Grow our supplier base. You qualify suppliers for additional production sites and regions, reusing existing qualification records.</li> <li>Make it repeatable. You document sourcing processes, templates and playbooks, so the purchasing team can take over mature suppliers.</li> </div><br><strong>Requirements</strong><br> <li>You have 6+ years in sourcing, purchasing or new product introduction for hardware products, across a variety of product types, complexities and technologies.</li> <li>You can read technical drawings and specifications, and you work closely with engineers.</li> <li>You’re willing to travel regularly, including international trips of several days.</li> <li>You’ve audited suppliers hands-on or worked within a quality management system such as ISO 9001.</li> <li>You have working knowledge of trade compliance rules.</li> <li>You’ve used an ERP system for purchasing and vendor data.</li> <li>You have a qualification in engineering, supply chain, business or a related field.</li> <li>You communicate excellently in English and build good working relationships with colleagues and suppliers.</li> <br><strong>Plus </strong><br><div> <li>Experience in aerospace, drones or other safety-critical products</li> <li>Experience sourcing custom electromechanical parts such as plastic parts, motors, batteries and avionics</li> <li>Experience qualifying suppliers for production in more than one region</li> <li>Experience with supplier scorecards and performance reporting</li> </div><div>If you enjoy teamwork more than being the individual superhero, and if you thrive in a feedback-driven culture and an exciting, unconventional yet structured and progressive start-up environment, we would love to hear from you.</div><p>Find more <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.ch/english-speaking-jobs">English Speaking Jobs in Switzerland</a> on Arbeitnow</a>