Global Supply Manager (Starlink)
SpaceX_Global · Posted Oct 28
Advanced rockets, spacecraft, satellite internet, and space transportation services
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About the role
The SpaceX Supply Chain Department covers procurement, planning and fulfillment, supplier development and quality, logistics and inventory, executing large-scale projects that define the company's bottom line. This role sits in the Bangalore office supporting Starlink terrestrial hardware — user terminals/products and ground stations — that underpins the satellite constellation delivering internet worldwide. The Global Supply Manager shapes international supplier partnerships and manages contract manufacturers on cost, quality, delivery, capacity and production ramp.
What you will do
- Develop and manage the supply base to support sourcing for the contract manufacturing, supplementing the Starlink user terminals and ground stations
- Provide daily program status updates, escalate to management when necessary
- Perform on site management at contract manufacturer partners to manage the development builds, ramp-ups, and mass production to hit production target
- Communicate overall production readiness status to the management team including schedules, risks and mitigation actions and respond quickly to changes to the overall goals, schedule, and architecture
- Perform forecast to supplier, plan capacity and track supply while maintain purchase order and receiving accuracy, ensure supply chain flexibility to minimize risks to ensure on time delivery
- Collaborate with worldwide team to plan manufacturing capacity, prepare supply chain for new product ramps, lead timely actions to resolve supply issues and provide accurate risk assessments, and supply projections
- Build and own overall project budgets management, track asset purchase and ensure suppliers spend within budgets
- Understand the technical aspects of production equipment to identify opportunities for cost, space, and process optimization and use data analytics to identify and parse process related opportunities
- Utilize negotiations to maximize value, cost savings, and priority in terms of delivery for SpaceX while lowering risk; manage costs to ensure alignment with program budgets
- Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories
- Create sourcing strategies to reduce risk, enable continuous cost reduction, and align with company strategy on payment terms, cash targets, on time delivery and cost savings
- Build genuine relationships both internally and externally and drive cross-functional teams to achieve consensus
- Present value propositions to SpaceX executives, including those related to contract award, cost reviews, cost reduction strategies, and critical supply issues
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or 10+ years of experience working in one or more of the following:
- Engineering
- Purchasing
- Contract negotiation
- Material or production planning
- Operations or supply chain management
- Material cost control
- Master production scheduling
- Capital equipment sourcing
- Able to travel for short and extended trips as needed - up to 50% work week travel may be required, including international travel
- Must be able to work flexible and extended hours and on weekends as needed
Preferred qualifications
- Experience directly negotiating contracts and sourcing global suppliers
- Experience with sourcing from a global supply base, and familiarity interfacing in-person with suppliers around the world
- Experience within the solar and/or battery field
- Ability to prioritize appropriately to meet internal customer and company needs
- Effective written and verbal communications skills, with strong ability to communicate to 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 integrity and urgency
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About SpaceX_Global
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, fundamentally transforming space transportation through reusable launch vehicles. The company also operates Starlink, a massive global satellite internet constellation providing high-speed broadband across the world. Through innovative engineering, government contracts, and commercial spaceflights, SpaceX continues to pave the way toward interplanetary travel and multi-planetary life.
- Industry
- Aerospace
- Company size
- 20000+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Hawthorne, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $11.9B raised
- 2026-03-17Series JUndisclosed
- 2023-01-01Private Equity$750M
- 2022-06-01Series I$1.68B
- 2021-02-01Series H$1.16B
- 2015-01-01Series F$1.0B
Leadership
Elon Musk
Founder, Chairman and CEO
President and Chief Operating Officer
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