About this role
xentys recruits for all technical sectors: industry, construction, offshore m.e. Strategic purchaser Electronics - Delft - €85 000 per jaar - Semiconductors - Permanent Locatie - Delft Type Sector Principal Company is a scale-up with a total of 85 employees and growing fast. It works at the frontier of quantum computing technology, to support scientists and institutions worldwide with 'qubit control equipment' (hardware with (embedded) software). Appr. 50% of all employees has a PhD in physics and also about 50% employees is Dutch; the other 50% of personnel has 21 different nationalities. Company is based in Delft and funded by several investors. Tasks Reporting into the operations manager you will need to create strategies to secure the supply chain for electronic devices (production of PCBs, I/Cs, electronic parts). Your focus will be on market analysis, supporting the innovation process, organizing the supply chain (strategy), on sourcing, selection and contracting plus solving issues in the supply chain. Your scope will be truly global. The category you will be responsible for comprises all components needed to produce PCBs. The supply chain for these components, especially I/Cs, is extremely complex and competitive: few suppliers and limited availability. Players in the supply chain are OEMs, distributors and EMSs (Electronic Manufacturing Service providers). You need to think of strategies to assure timely delivery. E.g. by having direct contact not only with tier 1 suppliers, but also tier 2 and tier 3. Or by actively applying a multi vendor policy in each tier and even by making different designs for one PCB to assure that availability of components will not become a blocking factor in production. You are familiar with the complexity of the (global) supply chain, know the industry with its drivers and the supplier in the global market for I/C's and electronic parts as well as EMS's. Ofcourse you n...