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Sourcing Manager, Food & Facilities

SpaceX· Purchasing
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McGregor, TXFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Sourcing Manager responsible for indirect supplier management and SG&A spend reduction initiatives, focusing on food and facilities categories. Role emphasizes strategy, stakeholder management, change management, analytics, risk management, contract and supplier management, negotiations, and tactical purchasing to achieve cost reductions and value.

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

Qualifications

  • 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: Engineering; Purchasing; Contract negotiation; Operations or supply chain management

Skills

Required:Advanced degrees and experience in relevant fieldsStakeholder managementNegotiation
Nice to have:Contract management
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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