Sr. Manager, Raw Materials Supply Chain

Space

X 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 Space

X is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

SR. MANAGER, RAW MATERIALS SUPPLY CHAIN

The imminent growth of Space

X's Mars program demands a new type of supply chain. We require our suppliers to provide premium quality with rapidly evolving designs at increasingly ambitious volumes, rates and costs, and need to scale our raw materials supply chain accordingly. Space

X is looking for a high horsepower leader to manage a team of talented raw materials sourcing professionals and build a raw material supply chain that is creative, cost-effective, resilient, and scalable as program goals evolve. This role will require a strong leadership presence, effective goal‑setting, and transparency in strategy to deliver results for the entire business. We are actively looking for leadership candidates who possess comprehensive experience with negotiating strategic relationships with raw material mills, distributors, international partners, and rare earth metal producers to secure future supply, drive cost out and have unrelenting motivation to enable suppliers for success.

This position will support all programs at Space

X including Falcon, Dragon, Raptor, Starship, and Starlink and requires a combination of proven leadership, creativity, technical depth, and persistence.

This is a critical position that requires practical experience in leading sourcing strategies for vendor development and new product development to completion, to build stabilized, high volume production for metallic raw material in many different alloys including Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Nickel, Titanium, and Copper that comes in forms including plate, sheet, coil, round bars, extrusions, and wires. The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of the manufacturing of raw material, the supply landscape, rare earth metals market, and key contacts with industry players.

• Lead a team to manage and build the supply base supporting critical raw material commodity for all Space
  
  X programs with an emphasis on scaling a strategy for raw material mills and distributors worldwide.
• Work in a cross‑functional team environment with a variety of partner groups as a strong decision‑maker, strategic change agent, and voice of leadership to achieve team and company‑wide goals.
• Leverage demand forecasts and upcoming design releases to secure ample manufacturing capacity and quality yield to enable aggressive ramp‑up of production across programs, and secure creative cost‑down solutions without impacting quality of inputs.
• Provide guidance to internal procurement staff and engineering customers on design for manufacturability, material alloy and condition choices, supply chain optimization, and cost reduction for strategies raw material commodities.
• Provide transparent and well‑constructed raw material strategies to executives, senior leaders, and individual product teams that thoroughly capture and mitigate risk, and correctly prioritize/trend cost, quality, and rate.
• Visit supplier’s facilities and accurately assess technical capability, equipment, and capacity for rapid deployment of new product development and long‑term production to implement a successful end‑to‑end product life cycle management strategy and process.
• Monitor and manage costs to ensure adherence to project‑specific budgets, forecasts and maintain cost of Bill of Materials. Ability to develop should‑cost models for competitive cost analysis and drive continuous improvement on cost in the supply chain. Drive the team to achieve goals and communicate strategies.
• Drive the team to push suppliers for continuous process improvement to enhance efficiency and implement cost‑saving programs with suppliers.
• Administer moderate to large contracts and independently negotiate with supplier’s contract terminology, pricing, technical requirements, scope and terms involving responsibility, liability, indemnification, intellectual property and export…