Senior Global Supply Manager IIActive

Rocket Lab
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The opportunity

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine.

What you'll do

  • Develop and execute sourcing and supplier management strategies aligned with: program goals for cost, quality, delivery, schedule reliability, and technical performance.

  • Manage the handoff from manufacturing engineering after RFQ, vendor: evaluation, and vendor selection, ensuring POs, supplier expectations, technical data packages, quality requirements, and delivery commitments are clearly established.

  • Build and maintain supplier relationships from initial RFIs and RFQs through: contract execution, PO management, production support, and delivery closure.

  • Maintain purchase order schedules with vendors, actively track delivery: commitments, and push vendors for recovery plans when deliveries, documentation, or commitments are late or at risk.

  • Manage and update expected delivery dates, supplier commitments, and material: readiness status to support accurate build planning, production schedules, and program decision-making.

  • Conduct vendor site visits to assess supplier capability, production: readiness, schedule risk, quality performance, capacity, and corrective action progress.

What they're looking for

  • Develop and maintain vendor scoring, supplier scorecards, and regular: performance reviews covering delivery, quality, responsiveness, cost, risk, and overall execution.
  • Lead supplier negotiations on a first-principles basis to secure competitive: terms, including cost, quality, schedule, lead time, delivery performance, and contractual commitments.
  • Ensure appropriate contractual flow-downs are communicated, incorporated, and: tracked with vendors, including quality, compliance, configuration, documentation, export control, delivery, and customer or program-specific requirements.
  • Collaborate with manufacturing engineering, quality, programs, production: planning, and finance to resolve supplier issues, expedite material, disposition non-conformances, and reduce program risk.