Job description
Rockets have not gotten wider. Satellites need far more power than they used to. The only way through is structures that pack into a fairing and unfold into something massive on orbit.
Gama is building that: ultra-light deployable solar arrays, from 3 kW to over 100 kW, in a factory sized for 100 MW a year. A deployable array is built from composites, precision-machined parts, mechanisms, harnesses, electronics and solar cells, made by suppliers around the world. Today our engineers find and manage those suppliers themselves, part by part, which does not scale to a fully operational factory.
We are hiring a Global Supply Manager, our first supply chain hire, to own this. You identify the critical parts in our supply chain, build the relationship with the vendors who make them, and negotiate cost, schedule and risk. You will be embedded with the engineering team and report to the COO. Gama operates with extreme ownership: you own the outcome, not just the purchase order.
Your mission will be to:
- Own the relationships with the suppliers of our critical parts, and understand their capabilities, capacity and lead times.
- Define the sourcing strategy for each commodity (composites, machined parts, mechanisms, harnesses, electronics, solar cells) and lead supplier selection.
- Set supplier standards for price, quality, lead time and reliability of supply, and audit suppliers against them.
- Negotiate cost, schedule and risk, and set up framework agreements for recurring parts.
- Set up supply planning: define when each part needs to be released and ordered, based on its lead time, and share those dates with the engineering teams.
- Work with the engineering teams from the early design phase to make sure parts can be sourced, and help engineers understand supply chain constraints.
- Build our supplier base where we need it and visit those suppliers when needed.
- Follow deliveries so that production is not stopped by missing parts, and manage supplier delays and corrective actions.
- Structure the purchasing process: how requests are raised, how orders are tracked and who owns each one.
- Manage supply risk: second sources for single-source parts, incoming quality criteria, export control and country-of-origin constraints.
Profile required
- Engineering degree, and experience working as an engineer (materials, manufacturing, design or quality) before moving into supply chain or sourcing.
- Experience managing suppliers of engineered parts for hardware products. Any industry is relevant: aerospace, automotive, motorsport, robotics, medical devices, industrial machinery, consumer hardware.
- Experience finding, qualifying and auditing suppliers in several countries, including on-site visits. Willing to travel.
- Experience negotiating price, lead time and terms, and setting up long-term agreements.
- Able to read drawings and specifications, and to discuss technical choices with engineers.
- Experience setting up supply planning or purchasing processes in a growing organisation. The judgment to apply process where it helps and skip it where it doesn't.
- Strong relationship and communication skills, with suppliers and with engineering teams.
- Roughly 5+ years of relevant experience, but we care far more about what you delivered than how long you have been working.
- Professional English. French is a plus, not a requirement.
Nice to have
- Experience buying for spacecraft, launch vehicle or aircraft hardware, ideally within a fast-paced New Space environment
- Commodity expertise relevant to our product: composites, plastics, precision machining or electronics
- An existing supplier network in Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East or India
- Experience taking a product from prototype buys into series production: volume pricing, capacity commitments, cost-down
- Experience with trade and regulatory compliance: export control (EAR, ITAR, EU dual-use), REACH, country-of-origin constraints
This role is probably not for you if your experience is mainly placing orders for parts and suppliers chosen by someone else. In this role you decide where our hardware comes from and you make sure it arrives.
Company description
Gama is a NewSpace startup based in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris. We are developing a next-generation power system for commercial LEO satellites — from solar array power conversion to battery energy storage. We design, build, and test our hardware in-house, and we move fast: our engineers see their designs go from schematic to flight hardware.
We are a small team where ownership matters: you own your subsystem end-to-end, from first calculations to test results. We work hands-on, we help each other without ego, and we treat mistakes as data — finding out why something failed is how we get better.
We offer:
- Your work will fly. Contribute directly to the future of space exploration and Sustainable Space.
- Access to cutting-edge facilities and development opportunities in the heart of the European space industry.
- A steep personal development path, working alongside world class aerospace engineers.
- Equity package and competitive compensation.
- A highly talented, dynamic and international team.
- Relocation support for international hires, where needed.
You do not need to meet every requirement to apply. If this role excites you and you meet many, but not all, of the criteria, we would be glad to hear from you. We value potential and support growth into the role.
On 11/11/2026