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Sourcing Specialist, Natural Gas

SpaceX· Supply Chain - Launch and Infrastructure
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Starbase, TXFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Operationally critical sourcing role at SpaceX focused on natural gas and related utilities, responsible for developing sourcing strategies, supplier management, cost reduction, and cross-functional collaboration to support production and new product introductions.

Responsibilities

  • Create capital sourcing strategies to reduce risk, enable continuous cost reduction, and align with company strategy on payment terms, cash targets, on-time delivery, and cost savings
  • Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to evaluate sourcing models and optimize the value of products and services that support business requirements
  • Maintain continuous cost reduction programs
  • Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies
  • Ensure the health of the supply base by evaluating and selecting suppliers based on capability, quality, reliability, and price competitiveness
  • Conduct comprehensive supplier analysis to formulate a strategic sourcing plan that identifies new/suitable suppliers, optimizes cost models, and proactively ensures continuity of supply based on upcoming new product introduction campaign requirements
  • Maintain vendor delivery of goods and services
  • Execute purchasing transactions within the scope area by issuing purchase orders for SpaceX programs and ensuring delivery
  • Identify and execute cost reduction projects, including planning, stakeholder coordination, timeline management, and project updates
  • Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories, anticipate strategic opportunities, and keep key stakeholders informed
  • Direct and execute initiatives that support aggressive improvements in supplier quality, total cost effectiveness, enhanced service levels, improved coordination, delivery, pricing, lead-times, payment, risk compliance, and other areas as identified
  • Benchmark, track, and analyze annual performance metrics and sourcing trends against budget on a monthly basis to demonstrate continuous improvement and progress against strategic objectives
  • Drive make vs. buy decisions for new products, implement the strategy across the product lifecycle from development, qualification, first article runs through stable production
  • Execute requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposal (RFPs), document bid events through correspondence to suppliers; conduct supplier negotiations and ongoing contract management
  • Administer multimillion-dollar contracts and independently negotiate suppliers’ contract terminology, pricing, technical requirements, scope, and terms involving responsibility, liability, indemnification, intellectual property, and export compliance

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and 1+ years of experience working in engineering, supply chain, purchasing, contract negotiation, material or production planning, operations management, material cost control, or master production scheduling; or 4+ years of experience in these areas

Skills

Required:Sourcing strategy developmentSupplier managementCost reductionContract negotiation

Benefits

  • [Not specified in the description]
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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