Global Supply Manager (Avionics)

Department: Manufacturing

Location: Redondo Beach

Compensation: $125,000 - $180,000 / year

Description

As a Global Supply Manager at Impulse Space, you will drive strategic sourcing, vendor management excellence, and end-to-end critical component management. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, manufacturing, quality, finance, and operations teams to ensure resilient, cost-optimized supply chains that enable scalable growth and market success.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a robust and high-performing supply base by rigorously evaluating and selecting suppliers based on capability, quality, delivery reliability, and cost competitiveness.
• Drive engineering to make sound, manufacturable design decisions aligned to clear drawing callouts and specifications, promoting standardization and critical inspection requirements to enable a scalable, high-performing supply plan.
• Lead end-to-end supplier management, assessing operations and technical and business capabilities to enable rapid development and production. Direct high-impact sourcing and qualification of new components or alternate materials and suppliers with engineering and quality teams.
• Manage the supply base by authoring and collaborating with Quality to release and maintain supplier quality and process documentation, ensuring standardized controls and compliance across the supplier network.
• Develop supplier scorecard to measure supplier performance against agreed-upon key performance indicators and report findings to leadership.
• Develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders, understanding their needs and consulting with them to build quality procurement strategies aligned to business requirements.
• Coordinate with engineering and quality organizations to determine cause of rejected material and to drive appropriate changes to ensure elimination/reduction of those quality issues.
• Administer moderate to large contracts and independently negotiate with supplier’s contract terminology, pricing, technical requirements, scope, and terms involving responsibility, liability, indemnification, intellectual property, and export compliance.
• Perform in-depth supplier assessments to develop and execute a strategic sourcing strategy that identifies qualified suppliers, optimizes cost models, and proactively safeguards supply continuity in alignment with macroeconomic and industry trends.
• Execute purchasing transactions within scope area by issuing purchase orders and managing open orders with materials requirement planning (MRP) to ensure accurate and complete information at all times.
• Advise and collaborate with buyers and planners on procurement strategies while collaborating with planning teams to provide accurate forecasts, mitigate capacity risks, and ensure operational and tactical execution success.
• Keep up with industry and commodity market trends while developing and maintaining strategic partnerships with major component distributors and manufacturers.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of experience in supply chain, production, or engineering; or advanced degree with 6 years of experience; or 10 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree, with demonstrated leadership in global supply management.
  
  
  

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Understanding of lamination, soldering/interconnects, module assembly, and frame fabrication processes and experience with test yields and early design impacts to production deployment.
• Deep expertise in sourcing and qualifying in PCB fabrication, and PCBA assembly partners for high-reliability applications.
• Proven experience sourcing, qualifying, and managing EEE (Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical) components for avionics or high-reliability aerospace applications, including supplier evaluation, compliance with aerospace standards, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to leverage technical knowledge of material specifications, manufacturing processes, and reliability testing to inform sourcing decisions and supplier development initiatives.
• Experienced in sourcing from a global supply base and managing sourcing phases from market research, supplier evaluation and selection, negotiations and supplier onboarding.
• Proven success working on cross-functional new product introduction projects, completing cost models, benchmarking, and negotiations.
• Familiarity with ERP systems and purchasing/planning functions.
• Exceptional written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
• Ability to identify and resolve technical, operational and organizational problems.
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated and able to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
  
  

Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.


To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.