← All roles

Sourcing Specialist, Construction

SpaceX· Supply Chain Management
Apply on company site
Hawthorne, CA$85k - $135kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Sourcing Specialist for construction projects supporting SpaceX Hawthorne facilities, focusing on contract management, strategic sourcing, supplier relationships, cost reduction, and procurement process optimization to support manufacturing infrastructure and rocket program components.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly with key internal stakeholders to develop and implement a comprehensive contract management process that ensures a successful project execution cycle.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Identify and execute cost reduction projects, including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, estimating completion, and project updates
  • Perform advanced quantitative and business process analyses to identify financial impacts of decisions, cost improvement, and performance for assigned categories
  • 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
  • Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories
  • Create contract documents in collaboration with the legal department
  • Manage contracts to ensure the performance of the supplier to contract obligations
  • Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business reasoning to interpret application of contract to business needs
  • Maximize value and cost savings benefits while lowering risk through strategic negotiations
  • Identify and drive year over year cost optimization through reducing usage and eliminating waste within our operations
  • Establish preferred suppliers for assigned categories
  • Optimize procurement processes from PO to pay to ensure we are as efficient as possible in our allocation of time and resources to achieve the best possible outcomes for the business in the shortest amount of time
  • Create and implement management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base
  • Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned categories
  • Develop and lead efforts to reduce number of transactions and for assigned categories

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree and 1+ year of experience working in one or more of the following; or 4+ years of experience working in one or more of the following: Engineering, Supply Chain, Purchasing, Contract negotiation, Material or production planning, Operations management, Material cost control, Master production scheduling

Skills

Required:Contract negotiationProject managementCost analysis / cost optimizationSLA / KPI definition and measurementProcurement process optimizationMarket research / benchmarking
Nice to have:MS Office / data tools (SQL, PowerBI)

Benefits

  • Long-term incentives (stock or long-term cash awards)
  • Discretionary bonuses
  • 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
  • Paid vacation (3 weeks) and 10+ paid holidays per year
  • Paid sick leave as per company policy
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About SpaceX

defense-aero-and-safetysetter-30setter-30-2026-q1wing-list-2026wing-list-2026-giga-stage
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at SpaceX