2025-04-15

Website SpaceX

Job Description:

The SpaceX supply chain department is a critical player in our operations. To capitalize on our technical and market success, our team will execute large-scale projects that will define the bottom-line for the company. The functions within the department include procurement, planning and fulfillment, supplier development and quality, logistics and inventory.

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Job Responsibilities:

  • Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business reasoning to interpret application of contract to business needs
  • Establish preferred suppliers for assigned categories
  • Maximize value and cost savings benefits while lowering risk through strategic negotiations
  • Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories
  • Perform advanced quantitative and business process analyses to identify financial impacts of decisions, cost improvement and performance for assigned categories
  • Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies
  • Create contract documents in collaboration with the legal department
  • Identify and execute cost reduction projects including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, estimating completion, and project updates
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Identify and drive year over year cost optimization through reducing usage and eliminating waste within our operations
  • Manage contracts to ensure the performance of the supplier to contract obligations

Job Requirements:

  • Experience with technical procurement, manufacturing, or designing production components
  • Strong ability to read drawings and blueprints, with understanding of manufacturing complexity
  • Exceptional analytical and organizational skills
  • Lean Six Sigma certification
  • Remarkable problem solving skills with a bias for speed and positive impact
  • Excellent customer service skills, produce exceptional work at all times, highly self-motivated
  • Strong technical knowledge and skills in current technologies and applications (e.g. MS Office Suite, SQL, PowerBI, etc.)
  • Familiarity or experience working with aerospace components
  • APICS certification
  • Detail-oriented, and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
  • Holds self to highest ethical standards, and conducts all activities with the highest of integrity
  • Ability to prove a strong track record of leadership and team building
  • Ability to learn quickly and prioritize appropriately to meet customer and company needs
  • Effective written, verbal and presentation communication skills

Job Details:

Company: SpaceX

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Hawthorne, CA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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