Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

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At Cesium Astro
, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, Cesium Astro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team.

We are looking to add a Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing to our team. In this role you will lead the strategic sourcing function responsible for category and commodity strategies, supplier selection, commercial negotiations, and long-term supply agreements across development and production programs. This role establishes sourcing priorities, manages resources, develops sourcing professionals, and oversees complex sourcing activities that support cost competitiveness, supplier capacity, and supply continuity.

The Senior Manager evaluates enterprise demand, supplier capabilities, market conditions, and sourcing risks to develop supply strategies that strengthen operational performance and support business objectives.

This position requires an experienced supply chain leader with extensive knowledge of strategic sourcing, category management, supplier economics, and commercial negotiations. The Senior Manager partners cross-functionally with Planning, Procurement, Subcontracts, Supplier Management, Engineering, Program Management, Finance, Supplier Quality, and executive leadership to address complex sourcing challenges, strengthen supplier relationships, and align sourcing strategies with program commitments and organizational priorities.

• Lead strategic sourcing teams responsible for category management, commodity strategies, supplier evaluations, and commercial sourcing activities across business areas.
• Establish functional priorities, operating plans, resource requirements, and performance expectations that support consistent sourcing execution and organizational objectives.
• Develop sourcing professionals through workforce planning, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and professional development.
• Develop sourcing strategies for critical commodities, technologies, and supplier categories based on enterprise demand, spend, market conditions, supplier capacity, and business requirements.
• Direct competitive sourcing activities involving requests for quotation/proposal (RFQ/RFP), supplier evaluations, source-selection recommendations, commercial negotiations, and long-term agreements.
• Guide make/buy analyses and sourcing decisions involving internal capabilities, supplier economics, cost, schedule, quality, capital investment, intellectual property, and scalability.
• Evaluate supplier capabilities, production capacity, quality performance, market conditions, and supply risks to determine sourcing priorities and mitigation approaches.
• Establish long-term sourcing arrangements, volume pricing, capacity reservations, and supply agreements that support demand forecasts, material availability, and business growth.
• Develop dual-source, second-source, localization, and alternative sourcing strategies to mitigate supply disruptions and reduce dependence on constrained or high-risk…