Sourcing Manager, Food & Facilities

The role

This individual will support indirect supplier management and SG&A spend reduction initiatives. They will create sourcing strategies, manage stakeholders, and perform quantitative analysis for assigned categories.

What you will do

• Create sourcing strategies for assigned categories to reduce risk and meet targets
• Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships
• Partner across functions to drive results and facilitate change management
• Perform advanced quantitative analysis to identify financial impacts
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define SLAs and KPIs for suppliers
• Analyze global supply chain dynamics and market volatility
• Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis
• Author contract documents with the Legal Department
• Manage preferred suppliers and implement management programs
• Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices

Required qualifications

• Advanced degree and 3+ years of experience in Engineering, Purchasing, Contract negotiation, or Operations or supply chain management
• OR bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience in Engineering, Purchasing, Contract negotiation, or Operations or supply chain management
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed
• Ability to communicate outside of work hours
• Must be able to travel up to 20% work week
• U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of

Nice to have

• 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
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
• Ability to conduct all activities with the highest integrity

About the company

SpaceX is actively developing technologies to enable human life on Mars. The company is a progressive procurement organization that challenges its supply chain on cost, quality, and delivery.