Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement
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What you'll do
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of procurement professionals (category managers, sourcing specialists), setting priorities, building capability, and creating a culture of accountability and collaboration
- Own a large, complex indirect portfolio, accountable for total cost, savings, supplier performance, and service across categories
- Define and execute multi-year category and supplier strategies that balance near-term savings with long-term resilience and scalability
- Lead high-value and complex sourcing initiatives and negotiations, setting negotiation strategy and securing favorable commercial, technical, and delivery outcomes
- Develop senior-level supplier relationships and manage strategic supplier performance and continuous improvement
- Partner with and influence senior stakeholders across Finance, Launch and Testing, Facilities, HR, Legal, and business units, and represent indirect procurement in cross-functional and financial planning
- Lead the team to achieve KPI targets and drive continuous improvement across cost, quality, and service
- Lead transformation of indirect procurement systems and processes (ERP, P2P/S2P, e-sourcing, contract lifecycle management) to increase automation and data-driven decision-making
- Drive supplier risk management, third-party risk, and business continuity strategies for critical indirect suppliers and services
- Champion sustainability, supplier diversity, compliance, and responsible sourcing across the indirect portfolio
- Serve as the organization’s subject-matter expert on contracting best practices, advising on commercial terms and risk
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of procurement or supply chain experience, with a significant focus on indirect categories
- 4+ years of people leadership, including developing and mentoring high-performing teams and, ideally, other leaders
- Proven track record setting and executing category and supplier strategies across a large, complex indirect portfolio, with measurable savings
- Strong negotiation expertise, with demonstrated success securing favorable commercial, technical, and delivery outcomes on complex agreements
- Deep knowledge of procurement systems and processes (ERP, P2P/S2P, e-sourcing, contract lifecycle management; e.g., SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba)
- Executive-level communication skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated ability to build, scale, and mentor high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment
- Proven experience managing and developing complex contracts, with strong legal and commercial acumen
- Experience sourcing construction, capital projects, ground support equipment/infrastructure, or engineered and fabricated goods
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or MBA
- Professional certification such as CPSM, CPSD, or CIPS
- Experience leading indirect procurement transformation, including sustainability and supplier diversity programs
- Experience in a complex manufacturing environment (aerospace, defense, automotive, or frontier technology)
- Familiarity with government contracting, ITAR/export controls.
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Full description from employer
At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
The Supply Chain team turns design intent into executable reality, balancing lead time, cost, complexity, and manufacturability to ensure we can build and scale Terran R. On this team, you're not just placing orders; you're actively shaping the solution. With full ownership across raw materials, capital equipment, and services, the role requires both strategic thinking and day-to-day execution. As the company scales, supply chain becomes increasingly central, working closely with engineering, quality, manufacturing, and more to make decisions that work for today but also for tomorrow. This is a team for those who want to operate at the intersection of technical ambition and business execution, driving tangible progress to keep the Terran R program on track.
About the Role
As Senior Manager of Indirect Supply Chain, you will lead a team of procurement professionals and set the strategy for a large, complex indirect portfolio spanning targeted local commodities and cross-site categories. At the local level, your scope will include ground support infrastructure, construction, and metal structures and fabrication, among others. You will shape multi-year category and supplier strategies, drive transformation across systems and processes, and serve as the trusted indirect procurement partner to senior stakeholders across the business — delivering cost, quality, and service performance today while building capability for tomorrow.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of procurement professionals (category managers, sourcing specialists), setting priorities, building capability, and creating a culture of accountability and collaboration
- Own a large, complex indirect portfolio, accountable for total cost, savings, supplier performance, and service across categories
- Define and execute multi-year category and supplier strategies that balance near-term savings with long-term resilience and scalability
- Lead high-value and complex sourcing initiatives and negotiations, setting negotiation strategy and securing favorable commercial, technical, and delivery outcomes
- Develop senior-level supplier relationships and manage strategic supplier performance and continuous improvement
- Partner with and influence senior stakeholders across Finance, Launch and Testing, Facilities, HR, Legal, and business units, and represent indirect procurement in cross-functional and financial planning
- Lead the team to achieve KPI targets and drive continuous improvement across cost, quality, and service
- Lead transformation of indirect procurement systems and processes (ERP, P2P/S2P, e-sourcing, contract lifecycle management) to increase automation and data-driven decision-making
- Drive supplier risk management, third-party risk, and business continuity strategies for critical indirect suppliers and services
- Champion sustainability, supplier diversity, compliance, and responsible sourcing across the indirect portfolio
- Serve as the organization’s subject-matter expert on contracting best practices, advising on commercial terms and risk
About You
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of procurement or supply chain experience, with a significant focus on indirect categories
- 4+ years of people leadership, including developing and mentoring high-performing teams and, ideally, other leaders
- Proven track record setting and executing category and supplier strategies across a large, complex indirect portfolio, with measurable savings
- Strong negotiation expertise, with demonstrated success securing favorable commercial, technical, and delivery outcomes on complex agreements
- Deep knowledge of procurement systems and processes (ERP, P2P/S2P, e-sourcing, contract lifecycle management; e.g., SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba)
- Executive-level communication skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated ability to build, scale, and mentor high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment
- Proven experience managing and developing complex contracts, with strong legal and commercial acumen
- Experience sourcing construction, capital projects, ground support equipment/infrastructure, or engineered and fabricated goods
Nice to Haves
- Master’s degree or MBA
- Professional certification such as CPSM, CPSD, or CIPS
- Experience leading indirect procurement transformation, including sustainability and supplier diversity programs
- Experience in a complex manufacturing environment (aerospace, defense, automotive, or frontier technology)
- Familiarity with government contracting, ITAR/export controls.
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@relativityspace.com.
Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.
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