Global Supply Manager, Tooling and Ground Support Equipment

Company Overview:

At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity’s industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the possibilities of the human experience. This journey begins right here on Earth – where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, fulfills the growing demand for launch capacity, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing.

Your journey with us is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the human experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our vision into reality.

About the Team:

​​We are a forward-thinking team developing and optimizing the indirect procurement processes, tools and policies to quickly expand our factory, test facilities, and launch site. We are looking for individuals that are entrepreneurial in spirit that can collaborate across all our internal stakeholders and across our procurement team to achieve the company objectives, and we do so with a sense of urgency. As a Global Supply Manager for Tooling and Ground Support Equipment, this individual will work closely with our design and manufacturing engineering stakeholders to manage end-to-end procurement and fabrication activities of one off designs and structures for our operations across each of our sites.  ​ 

About the Role:

• Receive drawing sets, develop procurement plans, and get parts and assemblies fabricated at a variety of vendors.
• Provide feedback to design engineers on ways to decrease cost and lead time for parts
• Partner closely with engineering during the design process to provide feedback and insights on ways to improve the manufacturability of their designs, ROM prices and lead times.
• Manage end-to-end RFx process in partnership with applicable stakeholders to identify top suppliers for a given need, drive competition within a given supply market, and maximize value creation for the procurement activity.
• Negotiate pricing, lead time, terms and conditions, and more, to holistically drive the best outcome for the business.
• Lead end-to-end purchase order management and invoice issue disposition to ensure on-time delivery of product or services and on-time payment of invoices. This includes processing purchase requests into purchase orders in the ERP system in a timely, efficient manner.
• Resolve any and all procurement-related issues that arise during the life cycle of an order.
• Collaborate with Indirect and Direct procurement functions, who own supplier relationships and build strong partnerships to continually deliver more value to Relativity.  

About You:

• Engineering, or similar with 5+ years working in a procurement role within a fast-paced manufacturing, supply chain, or engineering function OR 5+ years of experience as a Journeyman welder or machinist with 2+ years working in a procurement role within a fast-paced manufacturing, supply chain, or engineering function
• Can read and understand engineering drawings and documentation, including GD&T. 

Nice to haves but not required:  

• Experience vetting terms, conditions, and contracts associated with purchases.
• On the floor fabrication (welding, machining, metrology, etc.) experience.
• Knowledge of enterprise applications (i.e., PLM, ERP, MES) and data analysis applications/tools (i.e., MS Excel, SQL, Tableau).
• Demonstrated success negotiating pricing, lead time, contract terms, etc.