Strategic Sourcing Manager - Electro-Mechanical Commodities

SpaceX; United States; On-site; USD 115,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, vision & dental

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sourcing Manager, Electro Mechanical Commodities (Starlink Aviation) in Woodinville, WA, onsite to lead strategic supplier development for Starlink satellites and ground stations. You will drive cost-saving initiatives, manage budgets, and collaborate with internal stakeholders on capital purchases and production consumables.

The role requires strong contract negotiation skills, experience negotiating with global suppliers, and the ability to navigate a fast-moving, high-tech

Qualifications

• Engineering background required.
• Purchasing experience required.
• Contract negotiation experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the supply base to support sourcing for the Starlink satellites, satellite subsystems and ground stations.
• Provide weekly team status reporting, elevate to management when necessary.
• Train and mentor, working to ensure that the team is continuously improving.
• Work directly with key suppliers to develop and implement sourcing and cost management strategies that support existing platforms and new product development.
• Work directly with key internal stakeholders to develop and implement sourcing and cost management strategies that support capital purchases and production consumables.
• Understand the technical aspects of production equipment to identify opportunities for cost, space, and process optimization and use data analytics to identify and parse process related opportunities.
• Utilize negotiations to maximize value, cost savings and priority in terms of delivery for SpaceX while lowering risk; manage costs to ensure alignment with program budgets.
• Build and own overall project budgets, compile funding requests, and generate capitalization plan based on project timeline focusing on TCO of the categories managed.
• Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories.
• Communicate overall equipment status to the management team including schedules, risks and mitigation actions and respond quickly to changes to the overall goals, schedule, and architecture.
• Create sourcing strategies to reduce risk, enable continuous cost reduction and align with company strategy on payment terms, cash targets, on time delivery and cost savings.
• Build genuine relationships both internally and externally and drive cross-functional teams to achieve consensus.
• Present value propositions to SpaceX executives, including those related to contract award, cost reviews, cost reduction strategies and critical supply issues.

Skills

Engineering

Purchasing

Contract negotiation

Material planning

Operations or supply chain management

Material cost control

Master production scheduling

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sourcing Manager, Electro Mechanical Commodities (Starlink Aviation) in Woodinville, WA, onsite to lead strategic supplier development for Starlink satellites and ground stations. You will drive cost-saving initiatives, manage budgets, and collaborate with internal stakeholders on capital purchases and production consumables.

The role requires strong contract negotiation skills, experience negotiating with global suppliers, and the ability to navigate a fast-moving, high-tech