The Role
Lead the Supply Chain and Export teams, handle procurement, improve processes, and manage stakeholder relationships while meeting supply chain KPIs.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join the Wingtra team and become part of this venture-backed robotics scale-up 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 9 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.
In this role, you will lead our small but impactful Procurement Team with 2 employees as well as our Supply Chain team with 2 more employees. You will cover the whole range of Procurement activities, from selection, contract negotiations, auditing, all the way to managing your part portfolio in serial production. You will have the opportunity to define policies in alignment with our overall operations strategy and deploy these to our suppliers. You will work within new product introduction projects as well as with our production team. On the export side you will make sure that inbound and outbound logistics are well aligned with customer demand and production needs, that costs are within target range and take responsibility for tracking and reporting our level of service as well as our stock. You will have close interaction with production, finance, Industrialization and R&D.
Responsibilities
- Coordinating all Procurement activities in alignment with the overall operations strategy and major stakeholders, like production and R&D
- Leading the team of 2 Procurement and 2 Supply Chain Experts
- Manage procurement of hard goods (electronics, plastics, shell-foam, commodities), as well as licenses and software for a defined supplier panel
- Propose Supply Chain Process Improvements, defining and setting up lean processes with our partners to support Wingtra in scaling up
- Maintain supplier contracts throughout the product lifecycle, and participate in audits, manage supplier performance monitoring and evaluation activity at the supplier
- Achieve defined Supply Chain KPIs (Quality/On-Time Performance)
- Ensure updated and reliable information related to the suppliers and the products are in our ERP
- Develop the team
- Stakeholder management with internal (R&D, production, product management) and external stakeholders
Requirements
- >5 years of Commodity, strategic or Project Buyer experience
- >2 years of leadership experience
- Strong know-how in end-to-end procurement of hard goods (preferably electronics, plastics, shell-foam, commodities) alongside software and licensing, managing a defined network of suppliers
- Experience in international logistics, freight forwarding
- Highly analytical, being capable of solving complex challenges independently
- Strong interpersonal, reporting, negotiation and communication skills
- Audit and supplier evaluation experiences
- Experience with ERP systems (preferably Odoo) and IT/AI tools for process automation and data analysis
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Understanding of LEAN management
- Solution-oriented, while managing priorities with different stakeholders
- Excellent fluency in English, any other language a plus
Plus
- Experience in similar industry or markets
- Knowledge in legal
- Knowledge of certification and regulations e.g. ISO 9001, ISO14001
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
- >5 years of Commodity, strategic or Project Buyer experience
- >2 years of leadership experience
- Experience in international logistics, freight forwarding
- Highly analytical, able to solve complex challenges independently
- Strong interpersonal, reporting, negotiation and communication skills
- Audit and supplier evaluation experiences
- Experience with ERP systems (preferably Odoo) and IT/AI tools
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Understanding of LEAN management
- Solution-oriented, managing priorities with stakeholders
- Excellent fluency in English, any other language a plus
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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)
