Buyer, Supply Chain

Join our Mission to Protect Humankind!

Vaxcyte is a clinical-stage vaccine innovation company engineering high-fidelity vaccines to protect humankind from the consequences of bacterial diseases, which have serious and costly health consequences when left unchecked. Working to eradicate or treat bacterial infections such as invasive pneumococcal disease, Group A Strep, and Shigella is just the beginning. Our path to success is clear and well-defined, and Vaxcyte is set up to go the distance.

WHAT we do is every bit as important as HOW we do it! Our work together is guided by four enduring core values:

*RETHINK CONVENTION: We bring creative and intellectual diversity to every facet of the work we do in order to innovate and re-innovate the way vaccines are delivered.

*AIM HIGH: We embody our collectively audacious goal to courageously make the most complex biologics ever attempted to protect humankind.

*LEAD WITH HEART: Everyone leads at Vaxcyte with a kindness-first, inclusive approach to collaboration and vigorous debate that advances our business objectives.

*MODEL EXCELLENCE: The magnitude of our challenge requires our shared commitment to demonstrating integrity, accountability, equality and clarity across communications and decision making.

Summary:

The Buyer, Supply Chain supports the execution of procurement activities for materials and services required to enable manufacturing and supply chain operations in Switzerland and globally. This role is primarily responsible for requisitioning, purchase order management and supplier delivery coordination, ensuring on time delivery from suppliers. In addition, this role may support spend reporting and other project activities within Direct Procurement. The position operates in a regulated biotech environment and works closely with Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, MSAT and external CDMOs and suppliers to ensure timely, compliant, and cost‑effective purchasing.

Essential Functions:

• Act as primary requisitioner for raw materials and selected globally sourced goods and services.

• Ensure compliance with approved sourcing strategies, supplier contracts, pricing, and delivery terms.

• Interface with suppliers to confirm order acknowledgements, lead times, and delivery schedules.

• Support resolution of order discrepancies, delivery delays, and invoice mismatches.

• Support spend tracking, reporting, and basic analytics to provide transparency on purchasing volumes and trends.

• Contribute data for budgeting, forecasting, and supplier performance reviews.

• Execute procurement transactions in SAP in line with defined processes and internal controls.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives for procurement workflows, data quality, and reporting.

• Contribute to ERP and procurement process harmonization efforts across regions.

• Ensure purchasing activities comply with company policies, Swiss regulatory requirements, and applicable GxP standards.

• Maintain complete and audit‑ready procurement documentation.

Requirements:

Commercial education (e.g Federal Diploma), or Bachelor’s degree, in a relevant field, with 3+ years of experience in a Buyer, Procurement, or Supply Chain Operations role. Other combinations of education and/or experience may be considered.

• Ability to work in a cross-functional matrix organization and coordinate between multiple parties.

• Experience in biotech, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or similar regulated industry preferred.

• Hands‑on experience with purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and supplier interaction.

• Excellent communication, customer service and relationship skills.

• Excellent analytical skills.

• Knowledge of ERP, MS Office and other relevant applications.

• Fluent in English.

• Fluency in German highly preferred; Italian and other European languages an advantage.

Reports to: Associate Director, Strategic Sourcing

Location: Visp, Switzerland (hybrid) or Steinhausen, ZG, Switzerland (hybrid)

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