Construction Sourcing Specialist: Starbase, TX Onsite

SpaceX; Starbase (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sourcing Specialist, Construction to lead category strategies and supplier engagements for the Starship Program. You will partner with internal stakeholders to drive cost reduction, delivery performance, and contract excellence.

This onsite role at Starbase, TX requires travel up to 20% and the ability to work extended hours to meet major milestones. Strong negotiation, analytical, and procurement process skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience in construction procurement preferred.
• Strong contract negotiation skills required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a comprehensive contract management process that ensures a successful project execution cycle.
• Create sourcing strategies for assigned categories to reduce risk and meet targets for the purchasing department, including terms, cash targets, and cost savings.
• Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to create strategic sourcing models that optimize the value of products and services for business unit requirements to maintain continuous cost reduction programs for controllable expenditures.
• Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies.
• Identify and execute cost reduction projects, including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, estimating completion, and project updates.
• Perform advanced quantitative and business process analyses to identify financial impacts of decisions, cost improvement, and performance for assigned categories.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define SLAs and KPIs for suppliers and measure the appropriate criteria (delivery, cost reduction, quality, timeliness).
• Conduct research, benchmarking, and market analysis for assigned categories.
• Create contract documents in collaboration with the legal department.
• Manage contracts to ensure the performance of the supplier to contract obligations.
• Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business reasoning to interpret application of contract to business needs.
• Maximize value and cost savings benefits while lowering risk through strategic negotiations.
• Identify and drive year over year cost optimization by reducing usage and waste within operations.
• Establish preferred suppliers for assigned categories.
• Optimize procurement processes from PO to pay to ensure efficiency in time and resources.
• Create and implement management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base.
• Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned categories.
• Develop and lead efforts to reduce number of transactions for assigned categories.

Skills

Contract management

Sourcing strategy

Cost reduction

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Data analysis

Procurement process

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

MS Office Suite

SQL

PowerBI

ERP systems

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sourcing Specialist, Construction to lead category strategies and supplier engagements for the Starship Program. You will partner with internal stakeholders to drive cost reduction, delivery performance, and contract excellence.

This onsite role at Starbase, TX requires travel up to 20% and the ability to work extended hours to meet major milestones. Strong negotiation, analytical, and procurement process skills are essential.