Senior Buyer Planner

About IonQ: IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world's leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ's newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance. Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: This role will work onsite at our office located in Bothell, WA. Travel: Up to 5%, domestic or international. Job ID: 1877 The Role: We are looking for a Buyer Planner to join our Supply Chain team. As a Buyer Planner, you'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems. In this role, you will own the buy side of the material plan — converting demand into purchase orders, holding vendors to committed dates, and keeping the supply picture in the ERP accurate enough that the rest of the organization can plan against it. You are the connection point between what the factory needs and what the supply base has actually agreed to deliver. This is a high-volume, high-judgment execution role. Lead times are long, demand shifts, and a large share of what you buy is custom or single-source. The ideal candidate is someone who works a queue with discipline, chases commitments rather than replies, and understands that a date is only real once it is recorded in the system. Responsibilities : Purchasing Execution Review the buyer workbench daily for new demand, pull-ins, quantity changes, and cancellations before releasing anything, so that every release is a deliberate decision Release compressed lead time purchase requests first, prioritizing items past the Suggested Order Date, then batch standard within-lead-time releases Create Transfer Orders to connect supply and demand across locations and subsidiaries, checking other locations' on-hand before releasing a new PO Work the purchase request intake queue end to end: requests assigned to you, items needing a vendor or vendor part number, quote requests, returned or rejected requests, and approved requests with no PO created yet Return a status note to the requester on anything aging in the queue Delivery & Supplier Management Chase purchase order acknowledgments where a vendor has not confirmed price, quantity, and date Confirm delivery dates and update the PO with each new committed date Drive expedite and pull-in requests for material creating a shortage or a compressed date; Data Integrity & Financial Accuracy Resolve three-way match discrepancies — price variance, quantity variance, or missing receipts — correcting whichever record is actually wrong rather than forcing the invoice through Establish and maintain lead times in NetSuite for items missing them Identify and load preferred vendors and vendor part numbers for items missing them Requirements: [2]+ years of purchasing, buying, or materials planning experience in a manufacturing environment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience Working knowledge of MRP/ERP purcha…

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