The opportunity
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.
What you'll do
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
What they're looking for
- 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
