SpaceX

Sourcing Manager, Food & Facilities

SpaceX • $95K — $115K *
Anderson, TX 77830In-Person
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree plus 3+ years experience in engineering, purchasing, contract negotiation, or operations/supply chain management, OR Bachelor's degree with 5+ years in the same fields
  • Proven experience in purchasing or supply chain roles
  • Background in sourcing within the food industry, especially food categories and hospitality services
  • Experience managing facilities services like waste, janitorial, and security
  • Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

  • Create sourcing strategies to minimize risk and achieve purchasing targets
  • Maintain key relationships with internal stakeholders for optimized strategic sourcing
  • Drive change management initiatives across functions and with suppliers
  • Conduct advanced quantitative analysis to assess financial impacts of category decisions
  • Analyze global supply dynamics to develop effective procurement strategies
  • Manage contract documents and ensure supplier compliance with obligations
  • Negotiate contracts to maximize value while minimizing risk

Benefits

  • Dynamic work environment with opportunities for rapid advancement
  • Collaboration with senior stakeholders on significant procurement strategies
  • Ability to influence supplier practices and industry standards
  • Focus on continuous improvement and cost reduction initiatives
  • Hands-on challenges that foster professional development
Full Job Description
SOURCING MANAGER, FOOD & FACILITIES

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 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:
  • Strategy/Sourcing: Create sourcing strategies for assigned categories to reduce risk and meet targets for the purchasing department including but not limited to payment terms, cash targets, and cost savings
  • Stakeholder Management: Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to create strategic sourcing models that optimize the value of products and services that support business unit requirements to maintain continuous cost reduction programs for controllable expenditures. Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies. Provides solutions to a wide range of difficult problems
  • Change Management: Successfully partner across functions and with senior internal stakeholders and external suppliers to drive results, influence others and facilitate change management across the company
  • 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
  • Risk Management: Analyze global supply chain dynamics and market volatility impacting logistics providers; develop procurement strategies like multi-sourcing, diversification, and performance-based clauses to balance cost and risk
  • Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories
  • Contract Management: Responsible for authoring 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: Utilize negotiations to maximize value and cost savings benefits while lowering risk
  • Supplier Management: Manage preferred suppliers for assigned category. Create and implement related management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base
  • Tactical Purchasing - Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned categories
  • Performs assignments independently with instruction limited to the results expected
  • Efficiency: Develop and lead efforts to reduce the number of transactions for assigned categories

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Advanced degree and 3+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience working in one or more of the following:
    • Engineering
    • Purchasing
    • Contract negotiation
    • Operations or supply chain management

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
  • Experience in a purchasing or supply chain role
  • Experience sourcing within the food industry, preferably supporting in various food categories and hospitality services
  • Experience with managing facilities services - waste, janitorial, security, office supplies, office construction
  • Technical skills in current technologies and applications (e.g. MS Office Suite, SQL, PowerBI)
  • Exceptional analytical and organizational skills
  • Remarkable problem-solving skills
  • Ability to prioritize appropriately to meet internal customer and company needs
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills, with a strong ability to communicate with all levels of internal personnel
  • Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
  • Ability to conduct all activities with the highest integrity

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
  • Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet critical deadlines
  • Ability to communicate outside of work hours
  • Must be able to travel - up to 20% work week travel may be required
  • This position is based in Anderson, TX, and requires being onsite full-time - hybrid and remote work will not be considered


ITAR REQUIREMENTS:
  • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. a7 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. a7 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

About SpaceX

SpaceX is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk. The company designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. SpaceX has developed the Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Dragon spacecraft. The company was founded with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has achieved several milestones in spaceflight, including the first privately-funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit, the first privately-funded company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station, and the first privately-funded company to send a human-rated spacecraft to orbit.
Learn more about SpaceX
Size
8,000 employees
Industry
Aerospace & Defense
Founded
2002
* Ladders Estimates

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