Supply Chain & Procurement Manager

The role

You will own end-to-end procurement and build a flexible supply chain for an automated biology lab. You will manage sourcing, negotiations, inventory policy, and landed costs to drive down protein production costs.

What you will do

• Own procurement end to end including requests, POs, receiving, and vendor onboarding
• De-risk the supply chain by finding and qualifying second sources
• Negotiate with DNA, reagent, biosensor and catalog-protein vendors
• Drive down the cost of a protein by category
• Source reagents ahead of R&D assay additions
• Set inventory policy including reorder points and safety stock
• Plan supply for lab expansion including volumes, lead times, and storage
• Manage landed cost including shipping, customs, import duties, VAT, and cold chain
• Own COGS in partnership with Finance
• Automate ordering, tracking, and reconciliation

Required qualifications

• Worked in supply chain or procurement in a physical, technical business
• Understand reagent categories such as enzymes, antibodies, media, resins, and plasticware
• Technical enough to talk to scientists
• Comfortable negotiating with vendors
• Ability to automate processes using scripts
• Obsessive about details like lead times, expiry dates, lot numbers, and minimum order quantities

Nice to have

• Biotech, a CRO, or another life science company experience
• Hardware manufacturing or high-mix production setting experience
• Swiss or EU import/export experience

About the company

Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. They are a fast-growing biotech company building infrastructure that gives AI agents access to the physical world.