Strategic Sourcing Manager - Mechanical Commodities

InvestedintheMission; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sourcing Manager for Mechanical Commodities (Starlink) to lead supplier development, strategic sourcing, and cost-reduction initiatives across satellites, subsystems, and ground stations.

You will manage complex sourcing programs, mentor teams, and collaborate with internal stakeholders to optimize capital purchases and production consumables while driving continuous process improvements in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus 5+ years in engineering, purchasing, contract negotiation, or supply chain.
• Or 7+ years of experience in one or more listed areas.
• Experience in cost management and production planning is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the supply base to support sourcing for Starlink satellites and ground stations.
• Provide weekly team status reporting, and expand 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 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 management

Material cost control

Master production scheduling

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sourcing Manager for Mechanical Commodities (Starlink) to lead supplier development, strategic sourcing, and cost-reduction initiatives across satellites, subsystems, and ground stations.

You will manage complex sourcing programs, mentor teams, and collaborate with internal stakeholders to optimize capital purchases and production consumables while driving continuous process improvements in a fast-paced environment.