SpaceX Sourcing Manager leads procurement strategies for Food & Facilities categories at SpaceX to reduce risk and costs. The role involves stakeholder management, contract management, and driving compliance to category strategies.
Responsibilities
Strategy/Sourcing: Create sourcing strategies for assigned categories to reduce risk and meet targets for the purchasing department including but not limited to payment terms, cash targets, and cost savings
Stakeholder Management: 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. Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies. Provides solutions to a wide range of difficult problems
Change Management: Successfully partner across functions and with senior internal stakeholders and external suppliers to drive results, influence others and facilitate change management across the company
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
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
Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories
Contract Management: Responsible for authoring 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: Utilize negotiations to maximize value and cost savings benefits while lowering risk
Supplier Management: Manage preferred suppliers for assigned category. Create and implement related management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base
Tactical Purchasing - Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned categories
Performs assignments independently with instruction limited to the results expected
Efficiency: Develop and lead efforts to reduce the number of transactions for assigned categories
Qualification
Contract negotiationOperations or supply chain managementRemarkable problem-solving skills
Required
Advanced degree and 3+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience working in one or more of the following:
Contract negotiation
Operations or supply chain management
Preferred
Experience in a purchasing or supply chain role
Experience sourcing within the food industry, preferably supporting in various food categories and hospitality services
Experience with managing facilities services – waste, janitorial, security, office supplies, office construction
Technical skills in current technologies and applications (e.g. MS Office Suite, SQL, PowerBI)
Exceptional analytical and organizational skills
Remarkable problem-solving skills
Ability to prioritize appropriately to meet internal customer and company needs
Effective written and verbal communication skills, with a strong ability to communicate with all levels of internal personnel
