Global Supply Manager; Avionics

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

Department: Manufacturing

Location: Redondo Beach

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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,…