Sr. Buyer, New Product Development (Semiconductor Equipment)

Location: Singapore - Techview

Company

hirify.global designs, manufactures, and services complex semiconductor equipment used to produce devices for digital, wireless, computing, and other advanced technologies.

What you will do

• Execute purchasing activities for assigned commodities and suppliers, including RFQs, commercial evaluations, purchase orders, expediting, rescheduling, and closure.
• Maintain material availability against MRP requirements, production schedules, customer commitments, inventory objectives, and contractual lead times.
• Negotiate pricing, lead times, payment terms, order quantities, tooling, freight, warranties, and other commercial conditions.
• Monitor supplier delivery, quality, capacity, responsiveness, and service performance; lead corrective actions and recovery plans.
• Resolve shortages, overdue orders, invoice discrepancies, receiving issues, engineering-change impacts, and other supply interruptions with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Maintain purchasing data in SAP or other enterprise systems and support cost reduction, alternate sourcing, lead-time reduction, inventory optimization, and supplier consolidation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, operations, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least eight years of progressive purchasing, procurement, sourcing, or supply-chain experience in a complex manufacturing environment.
• Experience supporting new product introduction, prototype builds, engineering changes, and production ramps.
• Experience working across global engineering, operations, and supplier locations.
• Working knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, preferably SAP, with strong Excel and data-analysis skills.
• Strong commercial negotiation, supplier management, problem-solving, project coordination, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to read bills of material, drawings, specifications, and revision-controlled technical documentation.
• Knowledge of supplier audits, first-article processes, product lifecycle management, risk registers, and phase-gate reviews.
• Knowledge of cleanroom, high-vacuum, precision manufacturing, configuration control, and low-volume/high-mix capital equipment supply chains; ability to manage incomplete information, multiple priorities, and schedule pressure.

Nice to have

• Experience purchasing engineered, build-to-print, electro-mechanical, vacuum, gas-delivery, precision-machined, fabricated, or semiconductor-equipment components.
• Professional certification such as CPSM, CIPS, or APICS/ASCM.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with Planning, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Commodity Management, Finance, and Program Management.
• Support supplier relationships, critical-supplier business reviews, and cross-functional program communication.
• Follow hirify.global policies, approved supplier requirements, export controls, quality standards, contractual obligations, and applicable regulations.
• Protect intellectual property and confidential design information throughout supplier engagement and prototype development.
• Success is measured through material readiness, supplier delivery, cost and lead-time performance, qualification and engineering-change closure, risk reduction, data accuracy, and stable production transitions.

Hiring process

• All hiring communication comes from an @hirify.global.com email address.
• Applicants will have multiple interviews and meet several team members, in person or virtually; references or a background investigation may be conducted before an offer.
• hirify.global will never request money for equipment or pre-employment training.