Strategic Sourcing Manager (all genders)

🚀 Challenge the Impossible​ ​

About Beyond Gravity

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're a unique blend of agility, speed, and innovation, fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1700 professionals, spread across 13 locations in six countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites and launchers industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth.

Your crew 

The Strategic Sourcing Manager position is located in our Center of Excellence in Lisbon. 
Development and execution of global sourcing strategies within Electronic Solutions, to streamline and assert procurement strategies and favorable part-/supplier selection for materials and components through co-ordination with procurement and component engineering and to define a competitive and total-cost-optimized upstream supply chain, realizing of economies of scale through a global approach.

Your Mission 

- Developing and executing global sourcing strategies, methods and tools for direct and indirect sourcing

- Responsible for material on-time delivery (< 5% late), cost (PPV savings) and quality (supplier quality cost)

- Define methods, tools and forums for effective cross-site supply co-operation

- Asserts favorable part-/supplier selection by co-ordination with component- and mechanical engineering

- Act as a change agent within own organisation as well as towards main stakeholders

- Participates in and contributes to continuous improvement of material practices, designs etc.

- Proactive supplier relationship management of the global supply base across the organisation

- Support Parts Engineering and Design in the work to harmonize part selection and to create and maintain centralized PPL

- Define, develop and maintain KPIs relevant to achieve delivery, cost and quality excellence

- Lead or support major supplier negotiations

- Develop, negotiate, and establish contractual agreements for contract manufacturers, component vendors or suppliers of machined parts, to minimize supply risk and total cost of purchase.

- Lead Key Supplier assessments

- Support SQE in commercial supplier aspects Most important output

- Supporting Make-or-Buy decisions

- Globalized electronics procurement with centralized PPL

Your Story:

- Education in Strategic Procurement or similar

- 5+ years in-depth strategic and operational experience in sourcing with a solid working knowledge of global supply base

- Strong analytical skills (risk based) and focus on the essential facts

- Excellent communication skills

- Solid experience from Strategic Procurement in a project-based industry

Nice to have’s:

- Space experience

🌌Are you ready for lift-off?​

Our core values - Passionate, Together, and Curious - transform challenges into opportunities. Embark on a journey to transcend the ordinary with us. 
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For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact: ​Catarina Rio |  | catarina.afonsorio@beyondgravity.com 

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Beyond Gravity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected categories.​

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Applications by e-mail cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.