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Sr. Sourcing Specialist (Starship)

SpaceX· Starship Vehicle Supply Chain
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Starbase, TXfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior sourcing professional supporting capital purchases and construction projects for Starship program at SpaceX, focusing on strategy development, supplier management, cost reduction, and contract execution.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with key internal stakeholders to develop and implement sourcing and cost management strategies that support capital and construction projects
  • Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to create strategic sourcing models that optimize the value of products and services that support business unit requirement to maintain continuous cost reduction programs for controllable expenditures
  • Create sourcing strategies to reduce risk and meet targets for the purchasing department including but not limited to payment terms, cash targets, on time delivery and cost savings
  • Draft, negotiate, and manage capital and construction contracts from RFP through completion
  • Management of contracts ensuring performance of the supplier to contract obligations and understanding interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business
  • Perform project control tasks such as project budgeting and scheduling
  • Identify and execute cost reduction projects including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, estimating completion, and project updates
  • Create and implement related management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base
  • 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
  • Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories
  • Source and onboard new suppliers to serve dynamic program with rapidly evolving business needs
  • Act as a focal point for contractor management supporting contractors badging and communication
  • Identify opportunities for contractor management process improvement
  • Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned category
  • Develop and lead efforts to reduce the number of transactions and improve efficiencies for assigned category
  • Resolve invoice issues and ensure that vendors are paid on time

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree and 1+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of experience working in one or more of the following: engineering, purchasing, contract negotiation, material or production planning, operations or supply chain management, material cost control, master production scheduling

Skills

Required:Sourcing strategy developmentContract negotiationProject budgeting and schedulingCost reduction
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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