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
Work directly with key internal stakeholders to develop and implement: sourcing and cost management strategies that support capital and construction projects
Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to create: strategic sourcing models that optimize the value of products and services that support business unit requirement to maintain continuous cost reduction programs for controllable expenditures
Create sourcing strategies to reduce risk and meet targets for the purchasing: department including but not limited to payment terms, cash targets, on time delivery and cost savings
Draft, negotiate, and manage capital and construction contracts from RFP through completion
Management of contracts ensuring performance of the supplier to contract: obligations and understanding interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business
Perform project control tasks such as project budgeting and scheduling
What they're looking for
- Identify and execute cost reduction projects including planning, coordinating: with stakeholders, estimating completion, and project updates
- Create and implement related management programs to develop, continuously: improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base
- 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