Senior Production Purchasing Buyer

MaxLinear is seeking a Senior Production Purchasing Buyer to join out team. You will responsible for managing the purchasing of goods, services, and materials to support organizational operations. You will work closely with production planners and play a key role in supporting cross-functional teams. Requires someone that already has experience working at a fast pace medium sized company and can interact with various levels of personnel at various office locations. In this role, you will focus on:

• Manage purchase requisitions from requests until PO issuance: Ensure all requisitions are processed accurately and converted into purchase orders within defined turnaround times
• Communicate with internal customers to set expectations and deliver on time: Maintain proactive communication with stakeholders to align on timelines, specifications, and delivery expectations
• Track goods/service deliveries to ensure timely closure: Monitor delivery schedules and confirm receipt of goods/services to close out POs promptly
• Reconcile purchasing records with financial entries to support accurate reporting and compliance. Timeliness is required for month-end closes
• Process and validate Trade Agreement pricing entries: Ensure pricing compliance with trade agreements and maintain accurate records in procurement systems
• Provide listing of purchase activity during specified audit period: Generate detailed reports for audit purposes, ensuring completeness and accuracy
• Provide copies of relevant documents as requested by auditors: Organize and supply documentation such as POs, approvals, and vendor quotes to support audit reviews
• Maintain accurate records of purchases, pricing, and communications with various levels of the operations organization
• Provide assistance to operations staff as needed with reporting, analysis, tracking POs, etc
• Ensure compliance with company policies, legal regulations, and ethical standards in all phases of work
• Maintain good working relationships with all levels of personnel at local office and other offices overseas

Required Skills

• Ability to manage various purchasing categories
  • Experience handling a broad range of purchasing needs for production while understanding category-specific requirements, compliance standards, and vendor capabilities
• Effective cross-functional communication
  • Proficient in collaborating with internal teams such as operations, engineering, and finance to support, clarify needs, resolve issues, and ensure alignment throughout the purchasing process. Able to present data and recommendations clearly to stakeholders at all levels
  • Analytical mindset with attention to detail and problem-solving abilities
• Time management and multitasking proficiency
  • Capable of managing multiple purchasing projects simultaneously, prioritizing tasks effectively, and meeting tight deadlines without compromising accuracy or quality
• Familiarity with ERP systems and procurement tools
  • Skilled in using enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform and purchasing software (Microsoft D365) and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word) to manage requisitions, purchase orders, supplier databases, and reporting. Comfortable with digital workflows and data-driven decision-making

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, or related field
• 5–7 years of experience in a purchasing or procurement role, preferably within the semiconductor or a related high-tech industry

MaxLinear is a global, NASDAQ-traded company (MXL) where the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well. We are a fabless system-on-chip product company, striving to improve the world's communication networks for everyone through our highly integrated radio-frequency (RF), analog, digital, and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions for access and connectivity, wired and wireless infrastructure, and industrial and multi-market applications.

We hire the best people in the industry and engage them in some of the most exciting opportunities that connect the world we live in today. Our growth has come from innovative, bold approaches to solving some of the world's most challenging communication technology problems in the most efficient and effective manner.

MaxLinear began by developing the world's first high-performance TV tuner chip using standard CMOS process technology. Others said we couldn't achieve the extremely high-performance requirements using CMOS, but we proved them wrong and achieved enduring global market leadership with our designs. Since then, we've developed a full line of products that drive 4G and 5G infrastructure; enable data center, metro and long-haul optical interconnects; bring 10Gbit to the home; power the IoT revolution; and enable robust and reliable communication in harsh industrial environments. Over the years, we've expanded through organic growth and through several acquisitions that have perfectly complemented our existing portfolio and enabled us to deliver complete end-to-end solutions in our target markets. One such example was the acquisition of Intel's Home Gateway Platform Division that added Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Broadband Gateway Processor SoC technology to our connected home portfolio creating a complete and scalable platform of connectivity and access solutions to fully address our customers' needs.

Our headquarters are in Carlsbad, near San Diego, California. We also have major design centers in Irvine and San Jose, California; Valencia, Spain; Bangalore, India; Munich, Germany; Israel; and Singapore.

We have approximately 1,200 employees, a substantial majority of whom have engineering degrees and include masters and Ph.D. graduates from many of the premiere universities around the world. Our employees thrive on innovation, outstanding execution, outside-the-box thinking, nimbleness, and collaboration. Together, we form a high-energy business team that is focused on building the best and most innovative products on the market.