SpaceX Global Supply Manager, Logistics at SpaceX responsible for managing supplier relationships and logistics strategies. Focus on cost control, risk mitigation, and improving customer experience.
Responsibilities
Project Management: Responsible for identifying and executing projects to completion including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, and communicating project updates.
Risk Management: Analyze global supply chain dynamics and market volatility impacting logistics providers; develop procurement strategies like multi-sourcing, diversification, and performance-based clauses to balance cost and risk.
Contract Management: Responsible for assisting in the authoring of contract documents with the Legal Department. Management of contracts ensuring performance of the supplier to contract obligations. Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business reasoning to interpret the application of contracts to business needs.
Negotiations: Negotiate to maximize value and cost savings benefit while lowering risk.
Supplier Management: Manage preferred supplier relationships for assigned category. Identify areas of need within SpaceX and develop improvement plans with suppliers to meet those needs. Collaborate with Logistics on selection of new suppliers. Create and implement management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor (KPIs) key performance indicators of the supply base that include, but are not limited to on-time delivery, payment terms, cash targets, and cost savings.
Stakeholder Management: Cultivate partnerships with internal stakeholders (e.g., Logistics, Finance) through clear communication and data-driven insights; advocate for category procurement strategies to ensure alignment and execution on spend initiatives.
Analysis: 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. Collaborate with stakeholders to define SLAs and KPIs for suppliers and measure the appropriate criteria, such as delivery of business results, cost reduction, quality, and timeliness of delivery. Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories.
Qualification
Contract negotiationMaterial or production planningOperations or supply chain managementMaterial cost controlMaster production schedulingBachelor's degree in supply chainExperience with carrier cost modelsRemarkable problem-solving skills
Required
Advanced degree and 4+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or 10+ years of experience working in one or more of the following:
Contract negotiation
Material or production planning
Operations or supply chain management
Material cost control
Master production scheduling
1+ years of experience with SQL and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, or a science discipline
Deep understanding of transportation processes for inbound freight from the port to manufacturing and/or warehouse facilities, air and sea freight
Experience with carrier cost models, including parcel couriers, freight forwarders, and freight brokers
Experience with the use/implementation of logistics technology tools including Advance Shipment Notice (ASN) and Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
Experience with one or more of the following: Python, data mining, data structure, programming
Exceptional analytical and organizational skills
Remarkable problem-solving skills
Ability to prioritize appropriately to meet internal customer and company needs
