Strategic Buyer – Mechanics & Optics (m/f/d)

Schedule: full-time Employment: permanent Your way into the future As Strategic Buyer, you'll own the sourcing strategy for mechanical components, precision manufacturing, and passive optics. Your decisions directly shape our cost structure and supply chain resilience. You'll drive supplier development and cost reduction across a critical part of our supply chain. What awaits you at Mynaric Build and maintain category sourcing strategies for mechanical parts, assemblies, and passive optics.  Analyze cost drivers, and supply risk across the supplier market.  Identify and develop suppliers in Germany, Eastern Europe, and other key markets.  Lead outsourcing/transfer of internally or locally manufactured parts.  Run RFQs, cost breakdowns, and commercial negotiations.  Negotiate long-term agreements: pricing, capacity, and contract terms.  Lead supplier evaluation, selection, and qualification with Engineering and Quality.  Develop alternative sources for critical, high-cost, and single-source parts.  Monitor supplier performance and own corrective actions.  Maintain category roadmaps and risk registers; support transfer to series purchasing.  Cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Finance What you bring with you Degree in engineering, industrial engineering, supply chain, business administration or similar  Substantial experience in strategic purchasing, category management, or industrial sourcing, with a proven track record sourcing custom, drawing-based components  Experience with precision manufacturing, CNC machining, or optics  Solid grasp of manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and technical drawings, with strong cost breakdown analysis and cost-reduction capability  Track record leading RFQs, supplier selection, and commercial negotiations, including contract management  Experience with supplier qualification and development, industrialization, and production transfers  Structured project management and stakeholder management skills  Sound judgment balancing cost, quality, lead time, and risk with a data-driven approach, and able to work both proactive and independently  Experience in aerospace, space, defense, automotive, semiconductor, or similar is a plus - international sourcing experience preferred  SAP or comparable ERP experience a plus  fluent English skills, German skills a plus What we offer you Be part of the company that is changing the world! Have you always wanted to come to work in your favorite space outfit? Then you are exactly right with us! Forget bureaucracy and work together with inspiring colleagues from all over the world while you embark on an incredible journey with Mynaric to work on unique and challenging projects and make a real contribution to the future of connectivity. We offer flexible working hours as well as time off in lieu, diverse areas of responsibility, and an attractive compensation package as well as additional benefits such as: a mobility budget (public transport ticket, business bike, fuel voucher), non-cash benefits in the form of a shopping voucher, and company events. Mynaric is an employer committed to equal opportunity. Therefore, we welcome applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of ethnic origin, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age. If this sounds like the place where you would like to work, then apply today and become part of a company that is changing the world!