Senior Strategic Sourcing Lead — Space Tech

CesiumAstro, Inc.; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 201,000; Full time

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Job summary

CesiumAstro is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing to lead category and commodity strategies, supplier selection, and long-term agreements across programs. You will drive cost competitiveness, supplier capacity, and continuity while partnering across Planning, Engineering, Finance, and leadership.

The role requires extensive knowledge of strategic sourcing, supplier economics, and commercial negotiations, with a focus on cross-functional alignment and continuous improvement within a

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic sourcing teams responsible for category management, commodity strategies, supplier evaluations, and commercial sourcing activities across business areas.
• Establish functional priorities, operating plans, resource requirements, and performance expectations that support consistent sourcing execution and organizational objectives.
• Develop sourcing professionals through workforce planning, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and professional development.
• Develop sourcing strategies for critical commodities, technologies, and supplier categories based on enterprise demand, spend, market conditions, supplier capacity, and business requirements.
• Direct competitive sourcing activities involving RFQ/RFP processes, supplier evaluations, source-selection, commercial negotiations, and long-term agreements.
• Guide make/buy analyses and sourcing decisions involving internal capabilities, supplier economics, cost, schedule, quality, and scalability.
• Evaluate supplier capabilities, production capacity, quality performance, market conditions, and supply risks to determine sourcing priorities and mitigation approaches.
• Establish long-term sourcing arrangements, volume pricing, capacity reservations, and supply agreements that support demand forecasts and growth.
• Develop dual-source, second-source, localization, and alternative sourcing strategies to mitigate supply disruptions.
• Establish sourcing governance practices, category management standards, performance metrics, and reporting processes.
• Partner with Procurement, Subcontracts, Supplier Management, Supplier Quality, and other functions to align sourcing strategies with supplier performance and requirements.
• Advance sourcing capabilities through process standardization, spend analysis, system enhancements, supplier market intelligence, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Job description

CesiumAstro is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing to lead category and commodity strategies, supplier selection, and long-term agreements across programs. You will drive cost competitiveness, supplier capacity, and continuity while partnering across Planning, Engineering, Finance, and leadership.

The role requires extensive knowledge of strategic sourcing, supplier economics, and commercial negotiations, with a focus on cross-functional alignment and continuous improvement within a