As a key player in our supply chain department, you will be instrumental in enabling Starship's mission to make humanity a multi-planetary species. This role involves managing an agile yet robust supply chain that enables a competitive advantage for the company.
Responsibilities:
1. Analyze supplier spend, capacity, and develop overall supplier negotiation and engagement strategies. Implement sustainable cost controls and develop cost reduction improvement plans with suppliers.
2. Ensure work centers are clear to build on time and that lineside health is meeting specifications like sensible min/max/reorder-points that are aligned to the MRP Demand plan.
3. Have extreme ownership of the work center material health overall working closely with production counterparts and engineering to stay on top of start and finish dates, cycle times.
4. Manage production process or design change cut-ins etc.
5. Solve problems to recover from late breaking changes or shortages. Ensure that the production reality (work center cycle time) is supported by a credible and well-thought out inventory demand-supply plan (vehicle exit rate).
6. Lead complex outsourcing and cross functional projects.
7. Negotiate high value contracts and independently negotiate contract terminology, pricing, technical requirements, scope, and terms involving responsibility, liability, indemnification, and intellectual property with suppliers.
8. Interpret the conditions and terms of contracts including fiscal and legal implications and advises management on all significant procedures and regulations affecting the contract.
9. Act as liaison with external and internal customers on all matters affecting contractual agreements.
10. Develop and lead commodity strategies for sheet metal, raw material, machined parts, Hardware, and other Aerospace components from cradle to grave.
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