Los Angeles, CA$73k - $134kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
The Buyer is responsible for end-to-end procurement execution and supplier management to support Hadrian's supply chain, owning the full lifecycle from RFQ through PO, ensuring cost, quality, and schedule targets while building long-term supplier relationships.
Responsibilities
- Lead sourcing efforts across assigned commodity or program area, including RFQ development, supplier selection, negotiation, and PO management through acknowledgement.
- Serve as the primary interface between suppliers and customers, ensuring alignment on requirements, timelines, and quality standards across the supply chain.
- Own demand fulfillment accountability, with a relentless focus on quality, while optimizing for cost and schedule.
- Develop and maintain strong supplier relationships, using performance data and KPIs to drive accountability, continuous improvement, and root cause resolution in partnership with Supplier Quality.
- Provide tactical support on both customer and supplier contracts, ensuring commercial and technical requirements are executed and upheld.
- Identify process gaps and build or improve operational workflows where they don't yet exist.
- Maintain tight feedback loop with internal supplier quality to ensure issue resolution is swift and accurate.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of relevant experience in procurement or supply chain execution owning commodities such as machined components, electronics, sheet metal, raw material, PCB/PCBA, capex, indirect.
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, or related field.
- Strong project management instincts: able to juggle multiple accounts and competing priorities with high attention to detail and clear, proactive communication to all stakeholders.
- Comfortable navigating engineering data (drawings, GD&T, specifications) to interpret manufacturing requirements.
- Proven ability to build cross-functional relationships with engineers, supply chain peers, and other internal stakeholders alike.
- Experience working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where priorities shift and speed matters.
- Proficiency with ERP related systems and purchasing/planning functions.
Skills
Required:Procurement and supplier managementNegotiationEngineering data interpretation (drawings, GD&T)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
- 401k
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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