Senior Sourcing Specialist- Indirect

xAI • Palo Alto, CA

14h • $90,000 - $115,000

About The Position

We are a progressive procurement organization pushing the boundaries of traditional procurement reputation and methodologies. We are looking for individuals who can think outside the box to achieve company objectives regarding value and partnerships with our suppliers. Our organization moves quickly, and you must too. xAI has the unique ability and desire to influence and shape suppliers to be better with us as we challenge our supply chain on cost, quality, and delivery. This individual will support indirect supplier management and SG&A spend reduction initiatives. The purchasing team has aggressive objectives for 2026 that positively impact our product and bottom line. We are looking for the right person who is equipped and ready for these challenges to join our team.

Requirements

• Advanced degree and 3+ years of experience working in one or more of the following; or bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience working in one or more of the following:
• Engineering
• Purchasing
• Contract negotiation
• Material or production planning
• Operations or supply chain management
• Material cost control

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a purchasing or supply chain role
• Technical skills in current technologies and applications (e.g. MS Office Suite, SQL, PowerBI, etc.)
• Experience with Construction, Facilities or Contingent Labor
• Exceptional analytical and organizational skills
• Remarkable problem-solving skills
• Ability to prioritize appropriately to meet internal customer and company needs
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with a strong ability to communicate with all levels of internal personnel
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment
• Ability to conduct all activities with the highest integrity

Responsibilities

• Strategy/Sourcing: Create sourcing strategies for assigned categories to reduce risk and meet targets for the purchasing department including but not limited to payment terms, cash targets, and cost savings
• Stakeholder Management: Develop and maintain key internal stakeholder relationships to create strategic sourcing models that optimize the value of products and services that support business unit requirements to maintain continuous cost reduction programs for controllable expenditures. Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies. Provides solutions to a wide range of difficult problems
• Change Management: Successfully partner across functions and with senior internal stakeholders and external suppliers to drive results, influence others and facilitate change management across the company.
• Analysis: Responsible for advanced quantitative analysis to identify financial impacts of decisions and performance for category managed. Perform business process analysis and develop models to improve cost. Collaborate with stakeholders to define SLAs and KPIs for suppliers and measure the appropriate criteria, such as delivery of business results, cost reduction, quality, and timeliness of delivery
• Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories
• Contract Management: Responsible for authoring contract documents with the Legal Department. Management of contracts ensuring performance of the supplier to contract obligations. Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business reasoning to interpret the application of contracts to business needs
• Negotiations: Utilize negotiations to maximize value and cost savings benefits while lowering risk
• Supplier Management: Manage preferred suppliers for assigned categories. Create and implement related management programs to develop, continuously improve, manage the performance of, and monitor KPIs of the supply base
• Tactical Purchasing - Place purchase orders and resolve blocked invoices related to assigned categories
• Performs assignments independently with instruction limited to the results expected.
• Efficiency: Develop and lead efforts to reduce the number of transactions for assigned categories

Benefits

• Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level