# Manager - Purchasing

ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. Come shape the future with us. SUPPLY CHAIN Rocket Lab’s Supply Chain team is responsible for the flow of all materials, products, and components through the business. With many of our own products functioning as critical components to our own and our customers’ missions, the Supply Chain team has a direct impact on the success of our rocket and satellite programs. They set up the assembly kits that enable our technicians to put together our Electron rockets, manage inventory, look after shipping and receiving, manage direct and indirect procurement, and inspect and ensure that all of our materials and products are compliant and up to standard. They are the chain that links our teams together and are critical to our success. MANAGER PURCHASING Rocket Lab is scaling rapidly from research and development into true mass production, and we are seeking a Purchasing Manager who can build a

- **Id**: 1938257
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rocket-lab-manager-purchasing>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Auckland, New Zealand
- **Countries**: NZ
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-07T00:17:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T12:32:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 183
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5901
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Launch Services, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 684473
- **Name**: Rocket Lab
- **Domain**: rocketlab.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rocketlab-2>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 75
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.773
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 59000
- **Max usd**: 137000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 4991

## Technologies

- **AS9100** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 183

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-06T00:51:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 10
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.34
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 183
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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