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You take the bill of materials and build a sourcing plan for each commodity. You weigh criticality, lead time and single or dual source options.\nFind the right suppliers. You run market scans, requests for information and requests for quote. Then you shortlist the suppliers worth a closer look.\nJudge capability together. You work with R&D, Production, Finance and Compliance to build one clear view of what each supplier can do.\nNegotiate the deal. You agree pricing, volume tiers, tooling and payment terms. You also set up the NDAs, supply agreements and long-term agreements that back them.\nSet suppliers up properly. You onboard new suppliers and keep vendor data, price breaks and lead times current in our ERP system.\nLead supplier qualification. You coordinate our tiered qualification process, including quality agreements and first-article inspections.\nAudit on site and remotely. You check suppliers for quality management, traceability and compliance. You also screen them against trade compliance requirements.\nKeep builds moving. You place and expedite orders for prototype, validation, pilot and pre-series builds. You track supplier performance on delivery, price and quality.\nBring costs down. You work with suppliers on cost reduction, using should-cost and landed-cost models.\nGrow our supplier base. You qualify suppliers for additional production sites and regions, reusing existing qualification records.\nMake it repeatable. You document sourcing processes, templates and playbooks, so the purchasing team can take over mature suppliers.\nRequirements\nYou have 6+ years in sourcing, purchasing or new product introduction for hardware products, across a variety of product types, complexities and technologies.\nYou can read technical drawings and specifications, and you work closely with engineers.\nYou’re willing to travel regularly, including international trips of several days.\nYou’ve audited suppliers hands-on or worked within a quality management system such as ISO 9001.\nYou have working knowledge of trade compliance rules.\nYou’ve used an ERP system for purchasing and vendor data.\nYou have a qualification in engineering, supply chain, business or a related field.\nYou communicate excellently in English and build good working relationships with colleagues and suppliers.\nPlus\nExperience in aerospace, drones or other safety-critical products\nExperience sourcing custom electromechanical parts such as plastic parts, motors, batteries and avionics\nExperience qualifying suppliers for production in more than one region\nExperience with supplier scorecards and performance reporting","description_format":"text","description_chars":2650,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Switzerland","iso":"CH","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Drones & UAVs"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-16T13:43:21Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":19,"expected_fill_days":232,"reasons":["conf:1","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wingtra-senior-sourcing-specialist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wingtra-senior-sourcing-specialist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T02:12:15Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3560,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":54286},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=54286"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fwingtra-senior-sourcing-specialist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fwingtra-senior-sourcing-specialist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fwingtra-senior-sourcing-specialist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/wingtra-senior-sourcing-specialist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fwingtra-senior-sourcing-specialist"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2714482}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"wingtra.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2714482},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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