Project Buyer (all genders)

🚀 Challenge the Impossible

About Beyond Gravity

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're a unique blend of agility, speed, and innovation, fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1700 professionals, spread across 13 locations in six countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites and launchers industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth.

Your crew

A Project Buyer is responsible for the procurement of goods and services within a specific Slip Ring project, ensuring timely and cost-effective acquisition of necessary items complying to project requirements and company policies.

They act as a liaison between the project team, suppliers, and other stakeholders, managing relationships and negotiating contracts to optimize project outcomes.

Acting as the main operational procurement contact for the assigned suppliers & projects.

Your Mission

• Ensures the on-time material/service/parts availability for purchased items under his/her responsibility in line with the production and project planning.

• Participate in the Make or Buy Strategy

• Prepares and issues supplier orders

• Supervision of issued orders especially regarding on time delivery

• Highlight potential deviations from the plan (cost, time, quality) defining and ensuring counter actions

• Completes and maintains the ERP article master data for procured items

• Pro-active inventory management optimizing and balancing cash flow, availability and risk

• Maintaining the supplier contact to the existing suppliers

• Handling of requests for information, quotations and proposals

• In alignment with the direct manager and based on the preferred supplier portfolio and procurement process regulation selection of possible suppliers based on economic parameters; Senior in addition based on technical and quality requirements.

• Support with the calculation for customer offers, providing procurement parts and materials cost inputs

• Negotiating prices and conditions as well as establishing framework agreements together with the direct manager and/or commodity managers; for Senior Purchaser – taking negotiation lead for selected negotiation activities.

• Continuously optimizes total cost of ownership (TCO) and ensures day to day savings

• Reporting saving achievements in the defined reporting method (e.g. savings tracker tool)

• Coordination and implementation of the needs and requirements of materials management and production planning

• As required participation in supplier qualification and development; Senior plays major role in supplier qualification and development.

• Issuing and follow-up on supplier quality claims

• Occasionally carrying out incoming goods inspections (applicable for some sites only)

• In her/his area of responsibility optimizing in alignment with the direct manager the procurement relevant processes; Senior taking lead in process improvements

• Ensures the on-time material/service/parts availability for purchased items under his/her responsibility in line with the production and project planning.

• Participate in the Make or Buy Strategy

• Prepares and issues supplier orders

• Supervision of issued orders especially regarding on time delivery

• Highlight potential deviations from the plan (cost, time, quality) defining and ensuring counter actions

• Completes and maintains the ERP article master data for procured items

• Pro-active inventory management optimizing and balancing cash flow, availability and risk

• Maintaining the supplier contact to the existing suppliers

• Handling of requests for information, quotations and proposals

• In alignment with the direct manager and based on the preferred supplier portfolio and procurement process regulation selection of possible suppliers based on economic parameters; Senior in addition based on technical and quality requirements.

• Support with the calculation for customer offers, providing procurement parts and materials cost inputs

• Negotiating prices and conditions as well as establishing framework agreements together with the direct manager and/or commodity managers; for Senior Purchaser – taking negotiation lead for selected negotiation activities.

• Continuously optimizes total cost of ownership (TCO) and ensures day to day savings

• Reporting saving achievements in the defined reporting method (e.g. savings tracker tool)

• Coordination and implementation of the needs and requirements of materials management and production planning

• As required participation in supplier qualification and development; Senior plays major role in supplier qualification and development.

• Issuing and follow-up on supplier quality claims

• Occasionally carrying out incoming goods inspections (applicable for some sites only)

• In her/his area of responsibility optimizing in alignment with the direct manager the procurement relevant processes; Senior taking lead in process improvements

• Close cooperation with other functions and departments on procurement and supplier relevant topics, support of the strategic procurement team

• Acts according to the company’s values and code of conduct and supports process development within the function

• Ensuring the sourcing in line with the company’s and general legal sourcing rules.

• Most important output

• Materials, parts, services under her/his responsibility availability in line with project/procurement plan, operation and production plans

• Meeting or undercutting product, parts, materials BOM costs – ensuring best value for money purchases

• Close cooperation with the commodity manager(s) for the items under his/her responsibility

• High Supplier Quality Performance

• Purchasing Price Variation Savings > 3%

Specific “process flow” to Nyon

• Transforming purchase requisitions into purchase orders.

• Updating requests for quotations (RFQs) when a new order is placed

• Place purchase orders (PO)

• Record supplier A/R and update delivery times in the system

• Follow up with suppliers to obtain A/R

• Follow up with suppliers in case of late delivery

• Check and correct supplier invoices

• Sourcing - define potential suppliers / internal productions

• Carry out requests for proposals and consolidate the choices in a Purchasing COGS summary

• Ensuring compliance with the Purchasing COGS and communicating with the relevant PM on the projection (attention / EXW)

• Creation of purchasing information sheets (FIA) to define the relationship between articles and suppliers + price list

• Follows, updates and participates in the maintenance of the supplier's OTD

• Participates in and updates the team's operational indicators

• Create the delivery note, carry out the collection requests with the transporters

• Manage the provision and follow-up of export documents

Your Story

Must Have:

• Completed purchasing and technical education

• 5+ years technical and/or operational sourcing experience

• High awareness for costs and quality

• Preferable good technical understanding

• Experience in negotiation and high drive for results

• High reliability and adherence to deadlines

• Communicative personality, positive mindset & solution driven

• Experience in the use of ERP system and related procurement administrative and control tasks

• Good command of MS office

• Willingness to occasionally travel (e.g. local supplier visit)

Nice to have’s:

• Experience in technical, project driven environment

• 5S and Lean education & experience

• Solution driven, customer oriented, high reliability & adherence to deadlines

• Communicative and high self-confidence – being day to day contact to many suppliers

• Good self-management as well as the ability to prioritize

• Cooperative, hands-on team player

• Good stress resistance, able to stay structured, focused on the key priorities

Why Beyond Gravity?

You will be a part of an engaged team with the ambition to innovate space!

You will work in a growing high-tech company with career opportunities within the location or internationally.

We have a down-to-earth culture, experienced and competent employees and a versatile management team.

We offer a hybrid work situation and flexible hours to match your rhythm.

🌌Are you ready for lift-off?

Our core values - Passionate, Together, and Curious - transform challenges into opportunities. Embark on a journey to transcend the ordinary with us. Propel your career to new heights by applying before 02/02/2026. We‘re actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.

Beyond Gravity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected categories.

Applications by e-mail cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.

Nyon, VD, CH