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, LOGISITICS 

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 2024 that 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. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Project Management: Responsible for identifying and executing projects to completion including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, and communicating project updates.
• Risk Mitigation: Understand the global supply chain and possible market conditions that can affect carrier delivery and cost. Create sourcing strategies that include risk mitigation such as multi-sourcing and performance guarantees as needed.
• 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: Establish preferred suppliers for assigned category. Identify service areas of need within SpaceX and develop relationships with new suppliers to meet those needs. Maintain supplier base as needed to allow for proper implementation of bidding procedures and RFPs. 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, payment terms, cash targets, and cost savings.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to create a collaborative environment focused on delivering material on time to internal and external customers. Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies among SpaceX internal stakeholders. Provide solutions to a wide range of difficult problems including but not limited to local warehousing, warehouse network design, carrier management, local transportation, demand planning, logistics procurement, etc.
• Talent Development: Help manage, lead, develop, and mentor related positions while working on critical projects.
• 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. 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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree 
• 5+ years of purchasing experience
• 2+ years of experience with SQL and creating and managing dashboards using data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Looker) in business analysis

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, or a science discipline
• Deep understanding of transportation processes for inbound freight from the port to manufacturing and/or warehouse facilities, air and sea freight
• Manage sourcing for all aspects of logistics functions - shipping, third-party logistics (3PL) warehouses, freight forwarders, customs brokers, delivery, etc
• Experience with the use/implementation of logistics technology tools including Advance Shipment Notice (ASN) and Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
• Experience with one or more of the following: Python, data mining, data structure, programming
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