Technical Buyer

Technical Buyer
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Location: Eindhoven (Strijp-T) | Hours: 40 hours per week | Employment type: Direct employment
We're looking for a Technical Buyer to join the Avular Team!
As Technical Buyer at Avular, you play a key role in ensuring that our innovative products can be built with the right quality, cost structure, and supply continuity. From the very first prototype and NPI phase to production and long-term service support, you ensure our teams have the right components, suppliers, and agreements in place to build reliable, scalable, and cost-effective products. You are part of our Operations team and work closely with other disciplines, like R&D, Service & support and finance. You combine technical understanding with commercial sharpness and process ownership to keep our products moving fast in an evolving market.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS -
This is a hybrid role that combines hands-on operational purchasing with strategic sourcing and NPI involvement. You take end-to-end ownership, from placing orders and managing suppliers to influencing design decisions and long-term sourcing strategy. A significant part of this role is hands-on and operational. -
Take ownership of purchasing activities for production, prototypes, service & support, and other operational purchases. -
Facilitate timely re-ordering and pro-active re-order rules, based on production and project planning and consumption data. -
Partner with Engineering teams during NPI to drive supplier selection, technical sourcing and production technique decisions, and design-for-manufacturing improvements. -
Build strong relationships with suppliers and lead discussions on pricing, quality, lead times, contracts, and long-term collaboration. -
Take ownership of purchasing processes by setting up, optimising, and fine-tuning workflows, the procurement processes in our ERP system, and supplier collaboration methods. -
Monitor component lifecycles, market development...