About Us

Are you looking for an opportunity to make a real difference in your next role?

At Basis, our purpose is to radically accelerate the clean-energy revolution - starting with smarter, safer, and more efficient homes. We’re focused on improving experiences for people through the application of technology, data, and a deep understanding of human behaviour.

Basis is driven by purpose, real innovation, and ambition. We have a talented team spread across New Zealand, with a creative space by the beach in Takapuna, and a Design Lab in Christchurch where our physical products come to life.

Our team is talented, innovative, and ambitious with big goals - so if you’re interested in joining a fast-growing and startup that is design-led and puts people at its core, then we’d love to hear from you!

The Role

We're looking to grow our supply chain team. In this Intermediate Procurement Engineer role, you will play an integral part by setting up industry best practices, driving efficiencies by developing our supplier base, sourcing strategies, materials planning, purchase order management, and supplier management processes.

While your primary focus will be sourcing and purchasing, this role gives you an opportunity to contribute beyond that scope into the wider world of supply chain! You will be helping us to shape up our material planning and supplier quality management.

Some of the things that you might be involved in include:

• Developing and implementing sourcing strategies that meet and support cross-functional team requirements
• Driving for best value and improving overall supplier performance management across supply chain
• Actively participating and supporting new product introduction with sourcing at each stage of product development
• Sourcing components by identifying new/alternate components.
• Identifying, qualifying and onboarding new suppliers
• Developing long-standing relationships with key suppliers. Continuing to improve relationships while ensuring better commercial outcomes are achieved
• Managing supplier performance by conducting supplier assessments, on-site audits, and completing supplier performance reporting and monitoring
• Participating in developing, testing, piloting and implementing supply chain systems and tools as required.

Please note; this role will require international and domestic travel.

About You

We think you’ll be a fit for this role if you have the following skills/or traits:

• Approximately 2 - 4 Years experience in sourcing, planning or purchasing in Electronics manufacturing or similar technical industry
• Bachelor's Degree in relevant field (Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering)
• Ability to read/understand engineering drawings & BOM
• Previous experience with supplier onboarding and ongoing management
• Experienced in and familiar with material requirement planning (MRP) & enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems
• Proven ability to set-up supplier contracts, including negotiation and implementation
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with both internal & external stakeholders at all levels
• An ability to take initiative, follow through on what you say you’ll do, and own your mistakes
• Determination and tenacity, maintaining a positive attitude in challenging situation
• Clear, candid and concise communication skills - both written and verbal, but also an ability to be kind and compassionate when dealing with others

Some nice to haves include:

• Ability to communicate, both written and verbal, in Mandarin
• Experience with supplier quality management
• Experience with material planning
• Previous experience working with either a start-up, or scale-up company

Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet ~ 60% of the job criteria, women and other marginalised groups tend to apply only when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but are not sure you check every box, we still want to hear from you 🙌

Benefits

• A competitive salary and employee share scheme (ESOP)
• A hybrid-first culture - work from home or come into the office, it's totally up to you
• Unlimited annual leave so that you can take the time that you need to re-energise
• Tools of trade, including laptop and headphone allowance
• Flexible hours - we focus on effort and outcomes, so adjust your hours around your children, hobbies, or other commitments
• A schedule of fun team events throughout the year (ziplining, knife throwing, lawn games, what's next?)
• Office dogs + steady supply of fresh fruit and snacks in the office
• Access to Clearhead, our well-being programme which gives you 5x free sessions with a psychologist per year
• A commitment to diversity and inclusion: Pride Committee and partnering with Pride Pledge, DEIB Committee, EEO Policy and well-being strategy!
• Parental leave policy that tops up wages to 100% for the primary caregiver for up to 22 weeks (conditions apply)
• The opportunity to learn and develop from some of the best and brightest minds in the industry!

Let's Talk!

We’d love to hear from you! No need to submit a cover letter - just click 'apply' to answer a few short questions of ours (we find this gives us more insight) and attach your CV.

If you have any questions about the role, reach out to Steph at [email protected].

Department

Operations

Role

Procurement and Logistics

Locations

Christchurch, Auckland

Remote status

Hybrid

Employment type

Full-time

Hybrid - Office/WFH

Yes