Supply Chain Specialist

As a Supply Chain Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless operation and integration of our facility's supply chain with the broader organization. 

Based in ‘The Domain’ neighborhood, Optiver’s Austin office serves as the firm’s innovation nucleus, with a strong focus on quantitative research, software and hardware engineering initiatives. With tech innovation an integral part of our core business, the booming city proved an ideal backdrop for our heavy investment into machine learning, research infrastructure and big data computing. What’s more, with world-class music, food and art scenes, as well as countless scenic outdoor activities, the quality of life for Austin Optiverians is second to none.

Austin is home to Optiver’s main hardware manufacturing facility, where we design and build the custom trading hardware we use in our trading operations around the globe. Managing this manufacturing process is a complex challenge and we're looking for an experienced professional who can take ownership of our supply chain challenges such as procurement, warehousing, shipping, and planning.

What you'll do

As a Supply Chain Specialist, you will be entrusted with a significant level of autonomy to excel in the following responsibilities:

• Ensure material requirements are correctly forecasted, ordered, and available on time to meet production schedule.
• Ensure that administration is accurate and functional, serving both internal operational needs and the requirements of stakeholders throughout the larger organization.
• Manage in-flight material, available stock levels, and production scheduling across multiple sites.
• Cross functional partnership with our procurement, office operations, legal, tax and accounting teams.
• Manage all aspects of our incoming and outgoing packages, encompassing warehousing, administration, customs compliance, labeling, and insurance.
• Partner with our procurement team to manage vendor relationships, encompassing supplier onboarding, quotation and negotiation processes, and the sourcing of hard-to-procure components.

What you’ll get

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• Highly competitive compensation package including performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sports leagues and more
• Work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
• Performance based bonus structure that is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
• Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.  

Who you are

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in Logistics & Supply Chain, Finance, Industrial Engineering or similar experience
• 1-5 years of relevant experience
• Experience in procure-to-pay processes, supply chain operations, bill of materials management, product lifecycle management, and discrete manufacturing
• Experience with ERP/MRP software
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, small team environment while seamlessly integrating with a larger multinational team to bridge both worlds
• You have a hands-on, can-do mentality
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Adaptable, detail-oriented and organized

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in a small scale electronics manufacturing operation
• Experience managing external relations and vendors
• Experience managing projects
• Experience with international shipping and import/export classification
• Proven experience collaborating with diverse international teams

Who we are

At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilizing the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritize safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.

At Optiver, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. Optiver recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.