💼 About This Role

You'll own procurement activities across development and customer projects at a defence AI company, ensuring cost, quality, and schedule targets are met. You'll engage early in project phases to shape sourcing strategies and coordinate across engineering, supply chain, and external partners. This role offers genuine responsibility while supported by senior colleagues.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Support procurement activities across development and customer projects
• Engage early in project planning to contribute to sourcing strategies
• Research, evaluate, and recommend suppliers for technical components
• Serve as interface between engineering, procurement, suppliers, and production

📋 Requirements

• Managed procurement in technically complex project-driven environments
• Can read and interpret technical documentation
• Coordinated across cross-functional teams
• supported or led supplier negotiations

✨ Nice to Have

• Exposure to defence, aerospace, or regulated industries
• Familiarity with industrialisation or production ramp-up phases
• Experience with ERP or procurement management systems

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🇪🇺 Work on protecting democracies
• 🛡️ Unique technical challenges in defence AI
• 🤖 State-of-the-art innovation in AI and engineering
• 📈 Order-of-magnitude impact on national security
• 🗣️ Open culture with healthy debate on ethics

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Hiring Manager Interview· 60 min
3. 3Technical/Behavioral Interview· 60 min