Senior Buyer Planner — Power Our Quantum Supply Chain

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

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.