Strategic Buyer – Mechanics & Optics (m/f/d)

Mynaric; München; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mobility budget

Shopping vouchers

Company events

Job summary

Mynaric is seeking a Strategic Buyer to own sourcing strategy for mechanical components, precision manufacturing, and passive optics. You will drive supplier development, cost reduction, and risk management across critical parts of the supply chain.

Responsibilities include leading RFQs, negotiations, and long-term agreements while collaborating with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Finance to optimize total cost of ownership.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering, industrial engineering, supply chain, business administration or similar.
• Substantial experience in strategic purchasing or category management with sourcing of custom components
• Experience with precision manufacturing, CNC machining or optics; cost breakdown analysis
• Track record in RFQs, supplier selection, and negotiations including contract management
• Supplier qualification and development, industrialization and production transfers
• Structured project and stakeholder management, data-driven decision making
• International sourcing experience and aerospace/defense exposure is a plus
• SAP or ERP experience is beneficial and English fluent; German is a plus

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain category sourcing strategies for mechanical parts, assemblies, and optics
• Analyze cost drivers and supply risk across the supplier market
• Identify and develop suppliers in Germany, Eastern Europe, and other key markets
• Lead outsourcing/transfer of internally or locally manufactured parts
• Run RFQs, cost breakdowns, and commercial negotiations
• Negotiate long-term agreements: pricing, capacity, and contract terms
• Lead supplier evaluation, selection, and qualification with Engineering and Quality
• Develop alternative sources for critical, high-cost, and single-source parts
• Monitor supplier performance and own corrective actions
• Maintain category roadmaps and risk registers; support transfer to series purchasing
• Cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Finance

Skills

Strategic purchasing

Category management

Supplier development

RFQs and negotiations

Cost breakdown analysis

Data-driven decision making

English fluent

German a plus

Education

Engineering / Industrial Engineering / Supply Chain degree

Tools

SAP

ERP system experience

Job description

Your way into the future

As Strategic Buyer, you'll own the sourcing strategy for mechanical components, precision manufacturing, and passive optics. Your decisions directly shape our cost structure and supply chain resilience. You'll drive supplier development and cost reduction across a critical part of our supply chain.

What Awaits You At Mynaric

• Build and maintain category sourcing strategies for mechanical parts, assemblies, and passive optics.
• Analyze cost drivers, and supply risk across the supplier market.
• Identify and develop suppliers in Germany, Eastern Europe, and other key markets.
• Lead outsourcing/transfer of internally or locally manufactured parts.
• Run RFQs, cost breakdowns, and commercial negotiations.
• Negotiate long-term agreements: pricing, capacity, and contract terms.
• Lead supplier evaluation, selection, and qualification with Engineering and Quality.
• Develop alternative sources for critical, high-cost, and single-source parts.
• Monitor supplier performance and own corrective actions.
• Maintain category roadmaps and risk registers; support transfer to series purchasing.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Finance

What You Bring With You

• Degree in engineering, industrial engineering, supply chain, business administration or similar
• Substantial experience in strategic purchasing, category management, or industrial sourcing, with a proven track record sourcing custom, drawing-based components
• Experience with precision manufacturing, CNC machining, or optics
• Solid grasp of manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and technical drawings, with strong cost breakdown analysis and cost-reduction capability
• Track record leading RFQs, supplier selection, and commercial negotiations, including contract management
• Experience with supplier qualification and development, industrialization, and production transfers
• Structured project management and stakeholder management skills
• Sound judgment balancing cost, quality, lead time, and risk with a data-driven approach, and able to work both proactive and independently
• Experience in aerospace, space, defense, automotive, semiconductor, or similar is a plus - international sourcing experience preferred
• SAP or comparable ERP experience a plus
• fluent English skills, German skills a plus

What We Offer You

Be part of the company that is changing the world!

Have you always wanted to come to work in your favorite space outfit? Then you are exactly right with us! Forget bureaucracy and work together with inspiring colleagues from all over the world while you embark on an incredible journey with Mynaric to work on unique and challenging projects and make a real contribution to the future of connectivity.

We offer flexible working hours as well as time off in lieu, diverse areas of responsibility, and an attractive compensation package as well as additional benefits such as: a mobility budget (public transport ticket, business bike, fuel voucher), non-cash benefits in the form of a shopping voucher, and company events.

Mynaric is an employer committed to equal opportunity. Therefore, we welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of ethnic origin, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

About Us

Mynaric produces optical fiber for the skies and, as a pioneer in laser communications, enables extremely fast and secure wireless data transmission between satellites, drones and the ground. The products are used by well-known international technology companies to build global communication networks. The emerging Internet over the clouds will connect the previously disconnected 3 billion people, bring the Internet of Things to the remotest corners of the earth and make international communication more secure than ever.