Role: Procurement Manager

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Bangalore

Role Description:
We are looking for a highly driven and relationship-oriented Business Development professional to lead Pixxel’s supplier ecosystem and procurement strategy. This role is critical in enabling our satellite missions by securing the right hardware, at the right time, from the right partners—both domestically and globally. You will work closely with engineering, mission management, and leadership teams to ensure that Pixxel’s supply chain remains robust, scalable, and mission-ready.

Key Responsibilities:

Supplier Management & Partnerships

• Own, build, and nurture strong relationships with domestic and international suppliers across hardware categories.

• Continuously evaluate supplier capabilities, performance, and reliability to support Pixxel’s current and future mission requirements.

• Conduct regular supplier business reviews and maintain long-term partnership roadmaps.

Procurement Strategy & Execution

• Lead procurement strategy across multiple satellite missions and development cycles.

• Collaborate with engineering and program teams to identify procurement needs, timelines, and specifications.

• Drive RFPs/RFQs, vendor shortlisting, technical/financial evaluation, and contracting processes.

• Ensure timely availability of critical hardware and components while optimising cost, quality, and schedule.

Negotiation & Deal Closure

• Lead commercial and contractual negotiations with suppliers globally.

• Finalise agreements and close deals that align with Pixxel’s technical standards, cost expectations, and risk tolerance.

• Mitigate procurement and supply chain risks through proactive planning and alternate sourcing.

Required skills & Qualification:

Must-Have

• Strong conversational, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.

• Demonstrated ability to build trust-based relationships with vendors and partners.

• Self-motivated, proactive, and comfortable owning processes end-to-end.
  Background in supply chain management, procurement, vendor development, or related functions.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline (Mechanical, Electronics, Aerospace, or similar).

Good to Have

• Experience in hardware procurement, especially in aerospace, manufacturing, electronics, or high-reliability components.

• Exposure to global suppliers or international procurement.
  Business education (MBA or equivalent).

What Success Looks Like

• Reliable supplier ecosystem with clear performance visibility.

• Procurement cycles that run on time and within budget.

• Strong vendor partnerships that scale with Pixxel’s mission roadmap.
  Well-negotiated deals that balance cost, quality, and delivery.

Candidate Acumen:
A strong desire to work in an unstructured, high-growth, fast-paced start-up environment

Benefits:
Health insurance coverage
Unlimited leaves & flexible working hours
Role-based remote work and work-from-home benefit
Relocation assistance
Professional Mental Wellness services
Employee Stock Options for all hires

About Pixxel

Pixxel is a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Pixxel’s constellation is designed to provide global coverage every 24 hours and help detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena across agriculture, mining, environment and energy use cases.

Pixxel is on a mission to build a health monitor for the planet through a constellation of cutting-edge hyperspectral small satellites. This unique hyperspectral capability will be the key to unearth underlying, unseen problems that are invisible to satellites in orbit today.

Pixxel has collaborated with prominent organizations such as the Indian Space Research Organization, NASA JPL, and SpaceX among other leaders in the space industry. The organization is backed by Lightspeed, Radical Ventures, Relativity's Jordan Noone, Seraphim Capital, Ryan Johnson, Blume Ventures, Sparta LLC and Accenture among others.

Recently, Pixxel successfully raised $36 Million in its Series B funding round, with participation from new investors like Google, alongside existing investors, bringing the company's total venture funding to $71 Million.

To know more about us, visit https://www.pixxel.space.

Culture

Pixxel is an organisation where we enable our employees to work on world-changing problems that they are passionate about, and a place where they can be their best selves day in and day out while ensuring they have fun every day.

Central to our employee-first ethos is a commitment to ensuring that every team member feels valued and heard. We nurture a healthy and supportive work environment where we prioritise well-being and growth in all aspects of life

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