Supplier Management Manager

Orbitworks is looking for an experienced supplier management professional to lead the tactical execution of supplier management across our UAE and international supply base, including our internal supply relationship with Loft Orbital Solutions.

This role combines technical procurement expertise, commercial ownership, and hands-on execution to keep conforming hardware, equipment, and services arriving on time and at a competitive total cost. You'll own the full supplier lifecycle — from quotations, sourcing, and purchase orders through onboarding, delivery, performance management, renewal, and offboarding.

Sitting within the Supply Chain team, you'll partner closely with Engineering, Quality, Planning, Programs, Finance, and our Supplier Development function. This is an individual-contributor role with real strategic weight: you'll build the processes and working relationships needed to support a fast-growing portfolio of technologies and flight hardware.

• Own the supplier portfolio — Manage a mix of local and international suppliers alongside internal supply partners, segmenting them by criticality, technology, capacity, lead time, and risk, and setting the right level of ownership and review cadence for each.
• Lead technical sourcing and quotations — Turn approved specifications, drawings, and documentation requirements into effective RFQs, then evaluate quotes with Engineering and QA on compliance, lead time, capacity, tooling costs, and total cost of ownership.
• Drive procurement execution — Own requisitions, PO placement and amendments, supplier acknowledgement, and delivery follow-up, keeping quantities, prices, and delivery dates accurate and resolving receipt or invoice discrepancies.
• Negotiate contracts and commercial terms — Negotiate and administer pricing, payment, delivery, warranty, change, cancellation, and tooling‑ownership terms with Legal and Compliance, ensuring quality and technical requirements flow through into every order.
• Manage demand and product availability — Connect production and program demand to supplier lead times and capacity, flag shortages and long‑lead exposure early, and secure the coverage needed while managing cash and obsolescence risk.
• Lead delivery recovery — Validate supplier milestones and delivery evidence, and run recovery plans and escalations through to verified closure when things go off track.
• Manage the supplier lifecycle — Coordinate due diligence, onboarding, qualification, approved status, and offboarding, protecting continuity of orders, tooling, and records during transitions.
• Partner on quality and technical issues — Work with QA on supplier nonconformances and corrective actions, coordinate technical changes with Engineering, and turn Supplier Development findings into sourcing and commercial decisions.
• Run Loft Orbital and internal supply execution — Establish clear demand handoffs, commitments, and escalation paths with Loft counterparts, and apply consistent expectations across internal supply relationships.
• Improve performance and cost — Run supplier reviews on delivery, quality, responsiveness, and risk, and improve total cost through negotiation, order strategy, and qualified alternatives.
• Build the function — Create practical processes, dashboards, and decision records, and coach procurement colleagues as the portfolio and team grow.

• 7–15 years of experience in supplier management, technical procurement, or supply chain within aerospace, space, or another demanding engineered‑product environment, with direct accountability for production hardware or technically complex supply.
• Technical procurement literacy — able to read specifications, drawings, BOMs, revisions, and acceptance…