Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known. Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us. About The Team The Supply Chain team turns design intent into executable reality, balancing lead time, cost, complexity, and manufacturability to ensure we can build and scale Terran R. On this team, you're not just placing orders; you're actively shaping the solution. With full ownership across raw materials, capital equipment, and services, the role requires both strategic thinking and day-to-day execution. As the company scales, supply chain becomes increasingly central, working closely with engineering, quality, manufacturing, and more to make decisions that work for today but also for tomorrow. This is a team for those who want to operate at the intersection of technical ambition and business execution, driving tangible progress to keep the Terran R program on track. About The Role As Senior Manager of Indirect Supply Chain, you will lead a team of procurement professionals and set the strategy for a large, complex indirect portfolio spanning targeted local commodities and cross-site categories. At the local level, your scope will include ground support infrastructure, construction, and metal structures and fabrication, among others. You will shape multi-year category and supplier strategies, drive transformation across systems and processes, and serve as the trusted indirect procurement partner to senior stakeholders across the business — delivering cost, quality, and service performance today while building capability for tomorrow. Lead, coach, and develop a team of procurement professionals (category managers, sourcing specialists), setting priorities, building capability, and creating a culture of accountability and collaboration Own a large, complex indirect portfolio, accountable for total cost, savings, supplier performance, and service across categories Define and execute multi-year category and supplier strategies that balance near-term savings with long-term resilience and scalability Lead high-value and complex sourcing initiatives and negotiations, setting negotiation strategy and securing favorable commercial, technical, and delivery outcomes Develop senior-level supplier relationships and manage strategic supplier performance and continuous improvement Partner with and influence senior stakeholders across Finance, Launch and Testing, Facilities, HR, Legal, and business units, and represent indirect procurement in cross-functional and financial planning Lead the team to achieve KPI targets and drive continuous improvement across cost, quality, and service Lead transformation of indirect procurement systems and processes (ERP, P2P/S2P, e-sourcing, contract lifecycle management) to increase automation and data-driven decision-making Drive supplier risk management, …

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