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Strategic Sourcing Specialist

LeoLabs · Menlo Park, CA · On-site

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About LeoLabs

LeoLabs delivers the Orbital Intelligence operators need to detect, track, characterize, and respond to threats in space. Backed by Insight.

About the role

If you're looking to work on mission-critical challenges at the forefront of aerospace, national security, and AI, your impact starts here.

What they're looking for

  • Lead RFQ/RFPs, supplier evaluations, source-selection recommendations, cost and price analysis, and negotiations covering pricing, lead times, payment terms, delivery, statements of work, and commercial terms
  • Prepare and administer purchase orders, subcontracts, amendments, and related supplier agreements in accordance with internal approvals, sourcing strategies, and applicable contract requirements
  • Manage supplier commercial and contractual performance, including cost, schedule, deliverables, change management, terms-and-conditions issues, risk escalation, and recovery actions
  • Support proposal and program planning with supplier quotations, lead-time validation, commercial assumptions, and sourcing or compliance risk inputs
  • Improve sourcing and subcontracting processes, templates, documentation standards, and stakeholder guidance as program complexity grows
  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, Operations, Contracts, or a related field, or equivalent experience
More about this role

At LeoLabs, we're building the living map of activity in space. Through our proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform, we collect millions of measurements daily on more than 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). Our radar-powered intelligence protects billions in assets, monitors adversarial behavior, and ensures safe operations for commercial and government missions.

We're not just building technology, we are redefining global security, safety, and transparency in space. As orbital activity accelerates and threats grow more complex, LeoLabs is a trusted partner for Space Domain Awareness, Space Traffic Management, and Satellite Operations for top-tier space operators and allied defense organizations.

If you're looking to work on mission-critical challenges at the forefront of aerospace, national security, and AI, your impact starts here.

LeoLabs is hiring a Strategic Sourcing Specialist on the Radar Supply Chain Management team to lead complex sourcing and subcontracting activities supporting U.S. Government-funded and other contract-driven programs. This role will translate program and contractual requirements into supplier actions from intake and...

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