Senior Sourcing & Contracts Lead, Starship Program

Starlink; Florida; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Sourcing Specialist (Starship) to drive strategic sourcing for capital purchases and construction projects. You will influence suppliers, craft cost-reduction plans, and manage complex contracts, budgets, and KPIs to support rapid program execution.

You will partner with internal stakeholders, negotiate agreements, and lead procurement initiatives to optimize value while ensuring timely delivery and compliance with ITAR requirements.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree and 1+ years of experience in engineering, purchasing, contract negotiation, or related fields.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with key internal stakeholders to develop and implement sourcing and cost management strategies that support capital and construction projects.
• Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to create strategic sourcing models that optimize the value of products and services that support business unit requirements to maintain continuous cost reduction programs for controllable expenditures.
• Create sourcing strategies to reduce risk and meet targets for the purchasing department including but not limited to payment terms, cash targets, on time delivery and cost savings.
• Draft, negotiate, and manage capital and construction contracts from RFP through completion.
• Management of contracts ensuring performance of the supplier to contract obligations and understanding interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business.
• Perform project control tasks such as project budgeting and scheduling.
• Identify and execute cost reduction projects including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, estimating completion, and project updates.
• Create and implement related management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base.
• Responsible for advanced quantitative analysis to identify financial impacts of decisions and performance for category managed
• Perform business process analysis and develop models to improve cost
• Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories
• Source and onboard new suppliers to serve dynamic program with rapidly evolving business needs
• Act as a focal point for contractor management supporting contractors badging and communication
• Identify opportunities for contractor management process improvement
• Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned category
• Develop and lead efforts to reduce the number of transactions and improve efficiencies for assigned category
• Resolve invoice issues and ensure that vendors are paid on time

Skills

Sourcing

Procurement

Contract negotiation

Cost control

Education

Advanced degree

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MS Office

SQL

PowerBI

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Sourcing Specialist (Starship) to drive strategic sourcing for capital purchases and construction projects. You will influence suppliers, craft cost-reduction plans, and manage complex contracts, budgets, and KPIs to support rapid program execution.

You will partner with internal stakeholders, negotiate agreements, and lead procurement initiatives to optimize value while ensuring timely delivery and compliance with ITAR requirements.