# Lead Buyer / Planner

Job Summary: The Lead Buyer / Planner will own the supplier side of the ramp: strategic agreements with key suppliers, capacity and allocation commitments, second-source qualification for critical materials, supplier risk monitoring, and purchasing of the key high-volume supplies. Works with product line management and engineering to hold one normal configuration per product, so what we buy is what the bill of material says we build. This person will manage agreements and relationships set up in the first two quarters of product ramp and will govern cost and continuity of supply for the life of the line. Primary Duties & Responsibilities Manage processes related to the purchase of equipment, supplies and services for assigned suppliers, categories and manufacturing site. Participate in developing and monitoring performance against the annual operating budget. Coordinate formal and informal bids, request for quote/qualification (RFQ’S), Request for proposals (RFP’S); ensures all applicable legal and contractual provisions are met; manage and participate in solicitation, evaluation and award of bids; perform or assist others in the performance of price/cost analysis; negotiate cont

- **Id**: 3616883
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/coherent-lead-buyer-planner>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Granby, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T15:07:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T08:09:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 11
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5086
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Lasers & Laser Systems, Optical Communications, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Optics & Photonic Components

## Company

- **Id**: 58506
- **Name**: Coherent
- **Domain**: coherent.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/coherent-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 61
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.836
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 4
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 11

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T16:48:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 28 · green card filings: 4; Filings 12m: 28

## Liveness

- **Score**: 16
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.454
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 9
- **Expected fill days**: 4
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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