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At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention toward safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. As part of a diverse, passionate, and accomplished team, you will be the leading commercial market expert for a critical commodity to define supply base strategies and manage global supplier performance and relations with critical aerospace suppliers for various spaceflight programs. You will monitor and provide visibility of global market conditions, analyze capacity/capability constraints, and identify long-term business risks of our supply base in support of creating a strategy that will guarantee continuity of supply for all of Blue's programs. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration by driving effective category strategies enabling the acquisition of cost-effective components for Blue's programs. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Responsibilities: Provides strategic leadership in the evaluation, sourcing, and development of the supply base to support the development and production of space vehicles Ensures supply base can deliver to the commercial scope of component procurements and fulfill on time at the lowest lifecycle cost to support program requirements Responsible for conducting capability and capacity assessments Develop and manage commodity metrics/reporting including but not limited to updates on the state of the industry, supplier rating, and supplier segmentation (grow, maintain, exit) to support periodic supplier business reviews to internal stakeholders Participates in the use and improvement of databases that guide sourcing activity and capture supplier status, history, criticality, operational performance, and known issues Works with program stakeholders to identify long-lead procurement requirements and gaps in supply base capabilities Evaluate the suitability and stability of current and potential suppliers regarding financial health, staffing, quality, throughput, technical capability, and reputation. Leads suppliers through structural business changes required to fulfill Blue's lifelong program demand Identifies opportunities to leverage existing supplier relationships, segment/ rationalize/consolidate the supply base, maintain alternate supplier options, and support long-term supplier relationships Supports development, deployment, and maturation of supplier recognition program Identifies candidate suppliers for M&A activity and supports the process with the M&A team Relentlessly gathers intelligence on the health of strategic suppliers' business and informs Sr. Leadership of long-term risk and proposed countermeasures Team with supply chain engineering to conduct site surveys and business evaluations of existing and potential suppliers, serve as a point of escalation and resolution of corrective actions with suppliers . Qualifications: 5 years minimum experience managing commodities or services in aerospace R&D and manufacturing environments. Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply C