Sourcing Manager, OPEX (Starlink)

📋 Description

• Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned category
• Forecast demand, evaluate capacity, and manage supply signals
• Track high risk components and supplier delivery performance
• Communicate to influence vendor and senior leadership decisions
• Interpret engineering drawings and BOMs
• Create sourcing strategies for all mechanical custom and COTS hardware
• Develop a preferred supplier network and leverage it to minimize cost and lead time
• Machined parts, electromechanical equipment, and assemblies
• Solve complex, open-ended problems with speed and efficiency
• Manage outsource fabrication projects with planning and vendor performance
• Perform onsite reviews of vendor capabilities
• Responsible for authoring contract documents with legal
• Management of contracts ensuring performance of the supplier to contract obligations
• Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms; apply creative reasoning
• Utilize negotiations to maximize value and reduce risk

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years in purchasing/procurement or 9+ years engineering in lieu
• Experience with MRP or ERP systems; BOMs, work orders, and purchase orders
• Forecasting, demand planning, and lead time analysis
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated; able to respond quickly to fast-moving environments
• Ability to prioritize multiple ongoing projects
• Strong track record for achieving results with quantified impact
• Excel, SQL, and PowerBI data analysis
• Understanding of manufacturing processes and machines (mills, lathes, waterjet, laser, sheet metal)
• Familiar with finishes and coatings (paint, powder coat, anodize, heat treatment)
• APICS/Six Sigma certification or similar
• Effective written and verbal communications
• Ability to work in ambiguous situations and across organizational boundaries
• Self-learning and applying new tools and techniques
• Ability to learn quickly and prioritize to meet customer and company needs
• Willingness to work extended hours and weekends when needed to meet deadlines
• Ability to travel up to 20-50% of the work week
• Must be able to work onsite; remote work not considered