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Sourcing Manager, Software & Services

SpaceX· Purchasing
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Hawthorne, CA$130k - $185kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Sourcing Manager responsible for indirect supplier management and SG&A spend reduction initiatives within SpaceX. Develops sourcing strategies, manages stakeholders, negotiates global contracts, and drives cost reduction programs for software, services, and related categories. Based in Hawthorne, CA and on-site requirement.

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
  • Negotiate complex global contracts, focusing on pricing structures, SLAs, and favorable commercial terms
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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:Sourcing strategy developmentStakeholder managementContract negotiationData analysisContract managementSupplier managementMS Office

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives in stock or cash
  • Discretionary bonuses and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • 3 weeks paid vacation
  • 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick leave as per policy
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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