Senior Buyer Planner

Entangled Future; Bothell (WA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ in Bothell, WA is seeking a Senior Buyer Planner to own the buy side of the material plan, converting demand into POs and ensuring ERP accuracy for company-wide planning.

The role requires managing a high-volume queue, ensuring timely vendor commitments, and coordinating with a cross-functional team to support manufacturing. This is a full-time, on-site position in the Corporate - Supply Chain & Inventory group.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of purchasing, buying, or materials planning experience in a manufacturing environment; or equivalent
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or related field
• Working knowledge of MRP/ERP purchasing mechanics—planned orders, suggested order dates, lead time logic, exception messages
• Direct experience managing vendor relationships and holding suppliers to committed delivery dates
• Strong Excel skills: pivot tables, lookups, and building analyses

Responsibilities

• Review the buyer workbench daily for new demand, changes, and cancellations to ensure deliberate releases
• Release compressed lead time purchase requests and prioritize items accordingly
• Create Transfer Orders to connect supply and demand across locations
• Manage the purchase request intake queue end to end including vendor needs and PO creation
• Return status notes to requesters on aging items
• Chase purchase order acknowledgments when price/quantity/date aren’t confirmed
• Confirm delivery dates and update POs with new committed dates

Skills

Purchasing experience

MRP/ERP knowledge

Vendor management

Excel skills

Reading BOMs

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or related field

Tools

NetSuite

Zip

Coupa

Ariba

Job description

Senior Buyer Planner at IonQ, Bothell, Washington, United States. A senior-level full time position in the Corporate - Supply Chain & Inventory team, listed under software engineering.

The Role

We are looking for a Buyer Planner to join our Supply Chain team. As a Buyer Planner, you'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems.

In this role, you will own the buy side of the material plan — converting demand into purchase orders, holding vendors to committed dates, and keeping the supply picture in the ERP accurate enough that the rest of the organization can plan against it. You are the connection point between what the factory needs and what the supply base has actually agreed to deliver.

This is a high-volume, high-judgment execution role. Lead times are long, demand shifts, and a large share of what you buy is custom or single-source. The ideal candidate is someone who works a queue with discipline, chases commitments rather than replies, and understands that a date is only real once it is recorded in the system.

Purchasing Execution

• Review the buyer workbench daily for new demand, pull-ins, quantity changes, and cancellations before releasing anything, so that every release is a deliberate decision
• Release compressed lead time purchase requests first, prioritizing items past the Suggested Order Date, then batch standard within-lead-time releases
• Create Transfer Orders to connect supply and demand across locations and subsidiaries, checking other locations' on-hand before releasing a new PO
• Work the purchase request intake queue end to end: requests assigned to you, items needing a vendor or vendor part number, quote requests, returned or rejected requests, and approved requests with no PO created yet
• Return a status note to the requester on anything aging in the queue

Delivery & Supplier Management

• Chase purchase order acknowledgments where a vendor has not confirmed price, quantity, and date
• Confirm delivery dates and update the PO with each new committed date

Requirements

• [2]+ years of purchasing, buying, or materials planning experience in a manufacturing environment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Working knowledge of MRP/ERP purchasing mechanics — planned orders, suggested order dates, lead time logic, exception messages
• Direct experience managing vendor relationships and holding suppliers to committed delivery dates
• Strong Excel skills — pivot tables, lookups, and the ability to build a working analysis without waiting on a report request
• Ability to read and interpret BOMs and engineering drawings well enough to buy the right part
• Organized and persistent; able to work a large daily queue to completion and communicate status clearly

Nice to Have

• Experience with NetSuite or a comparable Tier 1/Tier 2 ERP
• Experience with an intake or procure-to-pay tool such as Zip, Coupa, or Ariba
• Background in high-mix / low-volume, prototype-to-production, or new product introduction environments
• APICS/ASCM certification (CPIM, CPSM, CSCP) or active pursuit
• Experience buying custom fabrication, machined parts, electronics, or long-lead capital equipment
• Familiarity with three-way match, receiving, and AP resolution workflows
• Working knowledge of business analytics reporting tools