Strategic Buyer – Electronics & Photonics (m/f/d)

Your way into the future

As Strategic Buyer, you'll own the sourcing strategy for electronic components, PCBAs, harnesses, interconnect, and photonics. Your decisions directly shape our cost structure and product roadmap. You'll drive make-or-buy trade-off, frame contracts, cut supply risk, and keep us ahead of obsolescence and single-source of supply.

What awaits you at Mynaric

• Build and maintain category sourcing strategies for electronics, PCBAs, harnesses, and photonics.
• Analyze spend, cost drivers, lifecycle risk, and supply constraints.
• Lead PCBA and harness make-or-buy assessments and implementation.
• Identify and develop alternative suppliers for critical, high-cost 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 second-source and continuity strategies for single-source parts.
• Manage supplier technology roadmaps, lifecycles, and obsolescence risk.
• Monitor supplier performance and own corrective actions.
• Maintain category roadmaps and risk registers; support transfer to series purchasing.

What you bring with you

• Degree in electrical engineering, electronics, photonics, supply chain, business administration, or similar
• Demonstrated track record of leading strategic sourcing initiatives and managing supplier categories
• Substantial experience leading RFQs, supplier selection, and commercial negotiations, including contract management
• Experience with make-or-buy assessments, cost modeling, and supplier qualification
• Strong understanding of component lifecycle, obsolescence, allocation, and single-source/supply-continuity risk
• Technical fluency in electronics, PCBAs, interconnect, or photonics
• Structured project management skills, with sound judgment balancing cost, technical performance, and risk
• Data-driven, proactive, and able to work independently
• Experience in aerospace, space, defense, automotive, telecom, semiconductor, or similar is a plus
• International sourcing experience preferred; SAP or comparable ERP experience a plus
• Fluent English required, 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!

About us

Mynaric produces optical fiber for the skies and, as a pioneer in laser communications, enables extremely fast and secure wireless data transmission between satellites, drones and the ground. The products are used by well-known international technology companies to build global communication networks. The emerging Internet over the clouds will connect the previously disconnected 3 billion people, bring the Internet of Things to the remotest corners of the earth and make international communication more secure than ever.