Global Supply Manager, Logistics

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.

GLOBAL SUPPLY MANAGER, LOGISTICS
We are a progressive procurement organization pushing the boundaries of traditional procurement reputation and methodologies. We are looking for individuals who can think outside the box to achieve company objectives regarding value and partnerships with our suppliers. Our organization moves quickly, and you must too. SpaceX has the unique ability and desire to influence and shape suppliers to be better with us as we challenge our supply chain on cost, quality and delivery. This individual will support indirect supplier management and SG&A spend reduction initiatives. The purchasing team has aggressive objectives for 2026 that will positively impact our product and bottom line. We are looking for the right person who is equipped and ready for these challenges to join our team.

This role will work closely with SpaceX's Logistics organization to control costs, mitigate risks, and improve customer experience by maturing cost- and risk-focused strategies with international and domestic parcel couriers, international freight forwarders, domestic freight brokers, warehousing providers, and customs brokers.

Responsibilities

• Project Management: Responsible for identifying and executing projects to completion including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, and communicating project updates.
• Risk Management: Understand the global supply chain and possible market conditions that can affect carrier delivery and cost, and effectively balance risk and cost within this environment. Elevate sourcing strategies that include risk mitigation, such as multi-sourcing and performance guarantees.
• Contract Management: Responsible for assisting in the authoring of 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.
• Negotiations: Negotiate to maximize value and cost savings benefit while lowering risk.
• Supplier Management: Manage preferred supplier relationships for assigned category. Identify areas of need within SpaceX and develop improvement plans with suppliers to meet those needs. Collaborate with Logistics on selection of new suppliers. Create and implement management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor (KPIs) key performance indicators of the supply base that include, but are not limited to on-time delivery,