Production Buyer — Space Tech (Hybrid)

Socket.dev; Menlo Park (CA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness stipend ($100 monthly)

Home office stipend ($300)

Internet allowance ($75)

Development fund

Employee recognition program

Job summary

LeoLabs in Menlo Park, CA, is hiring a Buyer on the Radar Supply Chain Management team to own day-to-day purchasing for production demand, BOMs, and program-critical materials for radar and sensing systems. You will translate BOMs and MRP requirements into timely PO actions and ensure material availability for manufacturing, integration, test and deployment.

The ideal candidate has direct-material procurement experience in production environments, strong ERP/MRP discipline, excellent negotiation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, operations, engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of progressive purchasing, procurement, or buying experience supporting production or manufacturing operations.
• Experience managing direct-material procurement in a production environment, including materials, components, assemblies, equipment, or manufacturing services.
• Strong experience managing the full purchase order lifecycle, including RFQs, quote evaluation, negotiations, order placement, supplier acknowledgements, delivery follow-up, change management, and closeout.
• Working knowledge of BOMs, MRP, production schedules, lead-time management, inventory considerations, and engineering change processes.
• Ability to perform cost and price analysis and negotiate pricing, lead times, MOQs, payment terms, and delivery commitments.
• Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems and Excel, with the ability to maintain accurate purchasing, pricing, supplier, and delivery data.
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple production-critical priorities and supplier escalations.

Responsibilities

• Own production purchasing execution for assigned suppliers, commodities, and BOM requirements from approved demand through receipt and PO closeout, with accountability for material availability, supplier commitments, cost, and delivery performance.
• Review MRP action messages, released BOM requirements, approved requisitions, shortage reports, and production priorities and execute required purchase, release, expedite, de-expedite, reschedule, cancellation, and quantity-change actions.
• Execute RFQs, quote evaluations, cost and price analysis, and commercial negotiations for pricing, lead times, MOQs, payment terms, NCNR exposure, and delivery requirements within established sourcing strategies.
• Manage the full purchase order lifecycle, including order placement, supplier acknowledgements, commit-date validation, change orders, partial shipments, delivery tracking, expedites, de-expedites, recovery actions, receipt, and closeout.
• Partner with Supply Planning, Inventory, Manufacturing, and Engineering to resolve shortages, engineering changes, part revisions, obsolescence, quality holds, substitutions, and other production constraints while minimizing excess, obsolete, and nonconforming inventory exposure.
• Monitor supplier delivery, purchase price variance, open commitments, lead-time risk, capacity constraints, allocations, and sole-source exposure; establish recovery plans and elevate risks before they impact production.
• Maintain accurate supplier commitments and purchasing data in the ERP system, including pricing, quantities, promise dates, lead times, revisions, and order status, and improve procurement workflows and controls as production volume and program complexity increase.
• Own supplier recovery for past-due and production-short material, including escalation, alternate delivery plans, partial shipments, and corrective actions necessary to protect build schedules.
• Represent Procurement in production-readiness, shortage, MRP, and material-review meetings and communicate supplier constraints, recovery dates, and purchasing risks to cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Coordinate purchasing actions associated with engineering changes, substitutions, and part obsolescence to prevent invalid demand from converting into purchase commitments and to manage affected open orders.

Skills

Procurement experience

ERP/MRP proficiency

Negotiation skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Supply planning knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business or related field

Tools

NetSuite

Excel

Job description

LeoLabs in Menlo Park, CA, is hiring a Buyer on the Radar Supply Chain Management team to own day-to-day purchasing for production demand, BOMs, and program-critical materials for radar and sensing systems. You will translate BOMs and MRP requirements into timely PO actions and ensure material availability for manufacturing, integration, test and deployment.

The ideal candidate has direct-material procurement experience in production environments, strong ERP/MRP discipline, excellent negotiation