Senior Purchasing Manager in Stuttgart bei Q ANT GmbH

• Technical and strategic purchasing of photonic, electronic components and services
• Ensuring material availability and procurement reliability (second supplier)
• Negotiating prices and contracts with national and international suppliers
• Responsibility for supplier and risk management
• Assumption of responsibility for procurement in the technical project teams
• Operational procurement of high-quality products and assemblies
• Claim management

• Successfully completed studies in engineering, industrial engineering or similar field of study
• Several years of experience in technical purchasing, project purchasing and supply chain management
• Several years of experience in negotiation and risk management
• Safe handling of ERP system (ideally SAP)
• Interest and curiosity in product development in high technology
• Very good communication and negotiation skills in German and English
• You like to work independently in an interdisciplinary team
• You want to shape the future with us and are eager to shape quantum technology

• In our team-oriented working atmosphere, you have flexible options for working hours and can thus combine your job and free time in the best possible way.
• We’ll get you in top shape: support for your professional and personal development
• Insight into the development of high-tech products.
• Lunch subsidy as well as coffee and fruit flat rate
• Experience university research up close in practice and participate in its development
• Chance to make valuable contacts

Who we are and what we do

Q.ANT is a high-tech startup driving and industrialising photonic quantum technology, pushing the borders to new fields of application and processes. The company was founded in 2018 and is part of the TRUMPF Group. Q.ANT develops quantum sensors and photonic chips and processors for quantum computing based on its Quantum Photonic Framework. Focusing on its four product lines of Photonic Computing, Particle Metrology, Atomic Gyroscopes and Magnetic Sensing, the company engages with a broad array of industries and applications ranging all the way from medical technology and autonomous vehicles to aerospace, machinery, and the process industry. Q.ANT employs more than 90 people at its site in Stuttgart/Southern Germany.