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Senior Buyer
Long Beach, California, United States
$84.5k-$145k / year
full-timesenioraerospace
🛠 Tech Stack
💼 About This Role
You'll manage end-to-end commodity procurement for next-generation space station development, ensuring supply chain alignment with program goals. Your core impact will be reducing cost, lead time, and risk while driving supplier performance across aerospace programs. This role offers the chance to work on artificial-gravity human-rated spacecraft at a pioneering commercial space station company.
🎯 What You'll Do
- Manage assigned commodities from demand to contract fulfillment.
- Apply sourcing and supplier management expertise across organizational levels.
- Optimize supply base to meet long-term program needs.
- Develop strategies to reduce total cost, lead time, and supply chain risk.
📋 Requirements
- 5 years in a Procurement role
- 3 years in aerospace industry and/or manufacturing
- Bachelor of Science degree in Business, Engineering or Business-related field
✨ Nice to Have
- Ability to create and update RFPs, POs in ERP software
- Experience working in a high-stress environment with multiple projects
- Ability to balance ambiguous instructions and priority shifts
🎁 Benefits & Perks
- 🏥 100% medical, dental, vision coverage for employees and dependents
- 🏖️ Generous PTO: up to 20+ days vacation for exempt staff
- 🍽️ Free meals: snacks, coffee, dinner, and subsidized lunch
- 📈 Company equity and 401(k) retirement plan
- 🧘 Wellness perks: ClassPass credits, mental healthcare through Spring Health
🚩 Heads Up
- Requires 3 years aerospace experience but title is Senior Buyer (misaligned level mismatch)
- Job lists ability to work evenings/weekends for critical milestones (excessive demands)
- Export control compliance restricts to U.S. persons only (limited eligibility)
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