Senior Electronics Sourcing & Category Lead

1st Executive Ltd; Basel; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

1st Executive Ltd in Basel is seeking a Senior Strategic Buyer / Category Manager – Electronics to lead a global electronics sourcing portfolio. You will influence category strategies, negotiate with suppliers and drive partnerships across international teams, ensuring cost, quality and continuity.

The role offers autonomy, exposure to a developing global procurement function and the opportunity to shape strategic supplier relationships within a financially strong industrial technology group.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement or category management.
• Strong electronics commodity expertise across semiconductors, microcontrollers, passive components, PCBs, PCBAs.
• Experience developing or implementing category strategies and managing international supplier portfolios.
• Proven negotiation and supplier management capabilities.
• Experience within industrial manufacturing, electronics, automotive, automation, instrumentation or high-tech environments.
• Fluent English; German is advantageous.
• Willingness to travel internationally, approximately 10%.

Responsibilities

• Implement and support strategic sourcing and category strategies across electronic components, working closely with global category management teams.
• Manage a significant portfolio of electronics suppliers, ensuring cost competitiveness, quality, delivery performance and supply continuity.
• Lead supplier identification, qualification, selection, negotiations and contract management.
• Develop long-term strategic supplier partnerships and drive supplier performance improvements.
• Identify supply chain risks, including component shortages, allocation constraints, extended lead times and obsolescence.
• Drive cost optimisation, supplier consolidation, dual sourcing and supply chain improvement initiatives.
• Conduct market intelligence, spend analysis and supplier benchmarking to identify opportunities and mitigate risk.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, quality, logistics and procurement stakeholders internationally.
• Support procurement transformation, process improvements and digitalisation initiatives.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Category management

Electronics expertise

Negotiation

Supplier mgmt

Analytical skills

Stakeholder mgmt

Fluent English

Travel willingness

Job description

1st Executive Ltd in Basel is seeking a Senior Strategic Buyer / Category Manager – Electronics to lead a global electronics sourcing portfolio. You will influence category strategies, negotiate with suppliers and drive partnerships across international teams, ensuring cost, quality and continuity.

The role offers autonomy, exposure to a developing global procurement function and the opportunity to shape strategic supplier relationships within a financially strong industrial technology group.