Sourcing Manager Jobs in Austin, TX

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Youve managed global supply chains with suppliers across China, South Korea, or Southeast Asia, including Incoterms selection, cross-border logistics, and import compliance, without losing schedule.

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Drive piece price and tooling negotiation process to ensure that SpaceX's commodity pricing meet best-in-class expectations, while meeting best-in-class quality, in addition to driving continual cost reduction and avoidance initiatives through ad-hoc price negotiations. We provide reliable and fast internet to millions of users worldwide, including populations with little or no connectivity, rural communities, aircraft, watercraft, and places where existing services are unreliable, too expensive, or disconnected by natural disasters.

The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, Corporate Services is a highly experienced individual contributor responsible for providing deep category expertise, consultative leadership, and strategic sourcing execution across Autodesk's global Corporate Services portfolio, with primary focus areas including Marketing Services, Event Services, and HR Services. The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager serves as a trusted advisor to senior business, Finance, and Legal leaders, translating functional strategies into scalable, commercially sound sourcing solutions that balance speed, flexibility, service quality, and cost effectiveness.

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• To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. The functions within the department include procurement, planning and fulfillment, supplier development and quality, logistics, inventory management, negotiation of supplier contracts and pricing, and developing the commodity strategy.

p>PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

Ideal Experience: Experience working within a consulting environment in Sourcing and Procurement as well as Supply Chain leveraging operations knowledge and Vendor Relationship building including but not limited to negotiations, knowledge of tariffs, and inventory/Sourcing and Procurement.

THE PERSON: You are an experienced sourcing manager who builds trusted partnerships across engineering, operations, finance, quality, and supplier leadership, and you use that influence to shapem commodity strategies that secure cutting-edge technology, competitive pricing, uncompromising quality, and resilient supply. You will develop and execute category strategies aligned with business objectives, driving total cost of ownership (TCO) reductions and long-term value through competitive sourcing events, RFx processes, and strategic supplier selection.

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This role will lead strategic sourcing management across multiple indirect spend categories by partnering closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements, developing sourcing strategies, and contributing to category strategies to deliver measurable value through cost savings, risk reduction, and service improvements. Compensation and Benefits: Stride, Inc considers a person's education, experience, and qualifications, as well as the position's work location, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value when determining a new employee's salary level.

p>RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work directly with key internal stakeholders to develop and implement a comprehensive contract management process that ensure a successful project execution cycle • Develop and execute equipment & services procurement strategies with focus on construction projects • Perform market analysis to determine should costs and achieve the best purchasing deals for equipment and services for diverse projects • Create and negotiate contract documents in collaboration with the legal department • Track and report projected and actual spend, assess budgetary risk, and provide clear budgetary analysis to enable timely management team decision making • Manage vendor relationships, ensuring clear communication, adherence to contracts, and resolution of any performance or delivery issues • Present value propositions to SpaceX management, including those related to contract award, cost reviews, cost reduction strategies, and critical supply issues • Identify and execute cost reduction projects including planning, coordinating with stakeholders, estimating completion, and project updates • Perform advanced quantitative and business process analyses to identify financial impacts of decisions, cost improvement, and performance for assigned categories • Create and implement management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base • Lead and execute request for proposals to fulfill requirements for defined categories or internal assigned areas • Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned categories • Develop and lead efforts to reduce number of transactions.

PREferred SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Strong technical background to speak the language of engineers and strong business background to deal with contracts and negotiations • Construction project management experience and/or construction cost estimate experience • Familiarity or experience in purchasing or similar procurement related experience • Experience in industrial engineering, construction management, and/or facilities management • Strong budget tracking and cost analytical skills • Extensive project management and organizational skills • Experience managing large scale industrial and commercial construction projects • Strong contract negotiation and document management skills • Remarkable problem-solving skills with a bias for speed • Quick learner and ability to prioritize appropriately to meet customer and company needs • Excellent customer service skills • Effective written, verbal, and presentation communication skills • Exceptional analytical and organizational skills • Strong technical knowledge and skills in current technologies and applications (e.g.

This includes, but is not limited to Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Greater Bay Area, CA; DC Metro Area; Denver, CO; Detroit, MI; Greater Boston Area, MA; Greater Denver Area, CO; Greater Los Angeles Area, CA; Greater New York Area; Irvine, CA; Madison, WI; Minneapolis, MN; Phoenix, AZ; Portland, OR; San Diego, CA. Your design, code, and raw smarts will contribute to solving some of the most complex technical challenges in the areas of distributed systems, data mining, automation, optimization, scalability, and security - just to name a few.

p>RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work directly with key internal stakeholders to develop and implement sourcing and cost management strategies that support capital purchases and production consumables • 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 • Build and own overall project budgets, compile funding requests, and generate capitalization plan based on project timeline focusing on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the categories managed • Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories • Communicate overall equipment status to the management team including schedules, risks and mitigation actions and respond quickly to changes to the overall goals, schedule, and architecture • Track and report projected and actual spend, assess budgetary risk, and provide clear budgetary analysis to enable timely management team decision making • 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 • Source and onboard new suppliers to serve dynamic program with rapidly evolving business needs • Work with supply base to ensure support from vendors regarding setup, installation, repairs and maintenance • Execute purchase orders and manage escalation process for "purchase to pay" issues.

PREferred SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 3+ years experience with capital expenditure purchasing • Experience with purchasing for more than one category • Extensive project management and organizational skills • Experience managing large scale capital projects • Remarkable problem solving skills with a bias for speed • Quick learner and ability to prioritize appropriately to meet customer and company needs • Excellent customer service skills • Effective written, verbal, and presentation communication skills • Exceptional analytical and organizational skills • Strong technical knowledge of MS Office Suite • Ability to conduct all activities with the highest degree of integrity • Detail-oriented, self-motivated and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment.

p>THE PERSON :

The ideal candidate demonstrates strong communication and interpersonal leadership skills, possesses solid project management capabilities, and has a proven ability to negotiate contracts effectively.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with stakeholder to understand and set cost targets for managed categories; Lead competitive bid process & analysis, price negotiation, cost reduction and business awards for the category with key suppliers.

li>Develop the global procurement strategy for foundry with specific focus on post fab and advanced packaging; implementing a supplier development program that has a coordinated long-term approach on cost, quality, and service. This may include (but not limited to): NPI/NRE procurement program management / order execution, Spend/Savings reporting, support emergency ordering process, tracking payables/receivables initiatives, ongoing critical action tracking/reporting and accountability.

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p>• Strategic thinking and analytical skills • Relationship building and stakeholder management • Process improvement and automation mindset • Risk management and compliance orientation • Leadership and team development • AI literacy and digital transformation advocacy • Change management and organizational agility • High tech industry acumen. In this high-impact role, you'll lead a team of Strategic Sourcing Managers and Buyers, driving procurement strategies for third party intellectual property licensing, emulation, EDA and engineering software and outsourced engineering services.

In this high-impact role, you’ll lead a team of Strategic Sourcing Managers and Buyers, driving procurement strategies for third party intellectual property licensing, emulation, EDA and engineering software and outsourced engineering services.

p>Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. You will manage high-stakes commercial relationships with major merchant silicon vendors (e.g., Intel, AMD), focusing on unit cost optimization, supply assurance, and quality execution.

p>Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. You will manage high-stakes commercial relationships with major merchant silicon vendors (e.g., Intel, AMD), focusing on unit cost optimization, supply assurance, and quality execution.