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Director Supply Chain & Hardware Operations

Sereact GmbH· Leadership
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Hybrid (Stuttgart Schockenriedstr. 17)Full-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Director responsible for moving from release-ready designs to QA’d units shipped to customers by scaling external contract manufacturing, supplier quality, planning, and logistics for hardware products in a robotics company.

Responsibilities

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  • Move gripper, cell, cabinet and final assembly to external contract manufacturers and EMS partners, with suppliers building to spec and shipping direct to customers where possible
  • Take frozen designs from Product Engineering into repeatable volume production, including ramp plans, build and work instructions and jigs
  • Run a first pilot build of grippers outside our own facility within your first 90 days
  • Select, negotiate with and manage suppliers, including commercial terms and capacity planning
  • Build redundancy for critical single points of failure such as the robot arm and long-lead or sole-source parts
  • Own incoming inspection, supplier quality, first article inspection, PPM targets and the manufacturing side of the RMA process
  • Build S&OP, forecasting and buffer stock so parts are staged weeks ahead of each deployment
  • Reduce supplier lead times and keep demo and fleet hardware available
  • Own shipping and import and export across the EU and US
  • Own hardware unit cost and bring COGS down over time
  • Implement the split between bespoke builds and a standardized product line on the operations side
  • Set up the supply chain operating model, KPIs and review cadence for your function

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in supply chain, manufacturing or hardware operations, including several years in a leadership role
  • A track record of taking a complex electromechanical product from prototype to hundreds of units per year, with production that kept running after the ramp
  • Experience standing up outsourced contract manufacturing, supplier quality, logistics and inventory from scratch in a scaleup or growth-stage company
  • Degree in engineering, supply chain, operations or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Hands-on supplier management, including selection, negotiation and supplier quality
  • Manufacturing quality, NPI and industrialization experience
  • Supply and demand planning and inventory management
  • Comfortable installing operating discipline, accountability and KPIs in a fast-moving, resource-constrained environment
  • Fluent English and willingness to travel to suppliers and customer sites
  • Experience in robotics, warehouse automation, AMRs or autonomous vehicles (Nice to have)
  • Experience turning demos and pilots into repeatable production deployments (Nice to have)
  • Experience working with product engineering on design-to-cost and DfM (Nice to have)
  • German fluency (Nice to have)

Skills

Required:Contract manufacturing managementSupplier quality and QMSPlanning and inventory managementCost and operating modelEnglish fluency and travel

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity in a fast-growing Series B robotics company
  • Flexible PTO and a collaborative, high-ownership culture
  • Ownership of our supply chain and manufacturing setup as we scale to hundreds of units a year
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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