The Role
Source and qualify hardware suppliers for prototype through production builds. Responsibilities include sourcing plans, supplier market scans, RFQs, negotiations, onboarding, audits, trade compliance, purchase order expediting, cost reduction, supplier performance tracking, and documenting repeatable procurement processes. The role partners closely with engineering, production, finance, quality, and compliance teams and requires regular international travel.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join the Wingtra team and become part of this venture-backed robotics scaleup with a global and international team of 125+ dedicated Wingtranauts who want to see their actions have a positive and lasting impact on the world. Founded more than 8 years ago at ETH Zurich, Europe’s leading robotics university, our goal is to build the best aerial robots to digitize the world at the push of a button and set the basis for faster and better decisions. Wingtra provides efficient and reliable data solutions to a variety of industries ranging from mining, construction and agriculture to humanitarian organizations, environmentalists and wildlife monitoring groups.
We are reaching for the stars and together we might just get there. Open communication, asking hard questions and valuing diverse viewpoints are but a few things that will help us achieve our goals. Above all we will never stop learning and striving to help each other reach our maximum potential.
Responsibilities
- Plan your sourcing. You take the bill of materials and build a sourcing plan for each commodity. You weigh criticality, lead time and single or dual source options.
- Find the right suppliers. You run market scans, requests for information and requests for quote. Then you shortlist the suppliers worth a closer look.
- Judge capability together. You work with R&D, Production, Finance and Compliance to build one clear view of what each supplier can do.
- Negotiate the deal. You agree pricing, volume tiers, tooling and payment terms. You also set up the NDAs, supply agreements and long-term agreements that back them.
- Set suppliers up properly. You onboard new suppliers and keep vendor data, price breaks and lead times current in our ERP system.
- Lead supplier qualification. You coordinate our tiered qualification process, including quality agreements and first-article inspections.
- Audit on site and remotely. You check suppliers for quality management, traceability and compliance. You also screen them against trade compliance requirements.
- Keep builds moving. You place and expedite orders for prototype, validation, pilot and pre-series builds. You track supplier performance on delivery, price and quality.
- Bring costs down. You work with suppliers on cost reduction, using should-cost and landed-cost models.
- Grow our supplier base. You qualify suppliers for additional production sites and regions, reusing existing qualification records.
- Make it repeatable. You document sourcing processes, templates and playbooks, so the purchasing team can take over mature suppliers.
Requirements
- You have 6+ years in sourcing, purchasing or new product introduction for hardware products, across a variety of product types, complexities and technologies.
- You can read technical drawings and specifications, and you work closely with engineers.
- You’re willing to travel regularly, including international trips of several days.
- You’ve audited suppliers hands-on or worked within a quality management system such as ISO 9001.
- You have working knowledge of trade compliance rules.
- You’ve used an ERP system for purchasing and vendor data.
- You have a qualification in engineering, supply chain, business or a related field.
- You communicate excellently in English and build good working relationships with colleagues and suppliers.
Plus
- Experience in aerospace, drones or other safety-critical products
- Experience sourcing custom electromechanical parts such as plastic parts, motors, batteries and avionics
- Experience qualifying suppliers for production in more than one region
- Experience with supplier scorecards and performance reporting
If you enjoy teamwork more than being the individual superhero, and if you thrive in a feedback-driven culture and an exciting, unconventional yet structured and progressive start-up environment, we would love to hear from you.
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience in sourcing, purchasing, or new product introduction for hardware products
- Ability to read technical drawings and specifications and work closely with engineers
- Willingness to travel regularly, including international trips of several days
- Hands-on supplier auditing experience or experience working within a quality management system such as ISO 9001
- Working knowledge of trade compliance rules
- Experience using an ERP system for purchasing and vendor data
- Qualification in engineering, supply chain, business, or a related field
- Excellent English communication and ability to build relationships with colleagues and suppliers
- Experience in aerospace, drones, or other safety-critical products
- Experience sourcing custom electromechanical parts such as plastic parts, motors, batteries, and avionics
- Experience qualifying suppliers for production in more than one region
- Experience with supplier scorecards and performance reporting
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The Company
What We Do
Wingtra is the world's leading VTOL drone producer, headquartered in Switzerland. Since its market entry in early 2017, Wingtra has partnered with more than 80 of the biggest surveying equipment dealers across 50+ countries worldwide. Based in the heart of Zurich, Switzerland, Wingtra houses 100+ employees, out of which more than 40 focus on R&D. The majority of Wingtra's engineers are graduates of one of the best science universities in the world, ETH Zurich. The same engineers design and assemble drones in-house and form Wingtra's support team, which is based in Europe and the Americas. Our WingtraOne drone carries best-in-class sensors that collect survey-grade aerial data. This technologically-superior VTOL UAV is used by mapping professionals for applications that range from surveying and mining, to wildlife monitoring. WingtraOne PPK offers an all-in-one solution: broad coverage, brilliant resolution and absolute accuracy down to 1 cm (0.4 in)
