Leads US domestic sourcing strategy and operations across manufacturing verticals, managing a 20+ person team and improving sourcing efficiency, margins, supplier performance, and AI-enabled marketplace growth.
Director, Sourcing Strategy & Operations
📜 Description
- Lead a team of 20+ sourcing specialists and managers, setting sourcing margin and efficiency targets.
- Define and monitor KPIs, identify workflow bottlenecks, and redesign sourcing processes for efficiency.
- Develop and execute sourcing technology and operations strategies across manufacturing verticals.
- Partner with technology teams to improve AI-powered matching, sourcing costs, supplier selection, acceptance rates, and margins.
- Evaluate partner network performance across capabilities, geographies, and price points.
- Coordinate cross-functional initiatives with product, engineering, pricing, sales, and operations teams.
🛠️ Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in manufacturing, procurement, supply chain management, or marketplace operations with exposure to technology implementation. Consulting experience is preferred.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, technologies, and industry dynamics
- Experience leveraging data analytics and AI to drive strategic business decisions
- Demonstrated success working across organizations to implement complex initiatives
- Ability to create and articulate compelling long-term strategies while delivering short-term results
- MBA or equivalent preferred
Full job description
Xometry (NASDAQ: XMTR) powers the industries of today and tomorrow by connecting the people with big ideas to the manufacturers who can bring them to life. Xometry’s digital marketplace gives manufacturers the critical resources they need to grow their business while also making it easy for buyers at Fortune 1000 companies to tap into global manufacturing capacity.
As the Director, Sourcing Strategy & Operations at Xometry, you will own and drive the strategic vision and execution of US domestic sourcing team across manufacturing verticals: CNC Machining, Additive Manufacturing, Sheet & Tube Fabrication. Sourcing operation is the key enabler for revenue and margin growth. In this role, you would be the key leader responsible for solving complex sourcing problems by collaborating with product, engineering, pricing, operation and sales to achieve hyper growth for the Xometry marketplace. This critical leadership role directly impacts marketplace growth as we revolutionize the $2 trillion custom manufacturing industry through our AI-powered platform. You will have responsibility for driving sourcing operation and process transformation, to support our mission to become the “Everything Store” for custom manufacturing. Working at the intersection of technology, manufacturing, and marketplace dynamics, you’ll help shape Xometry’s future while delivering exceptional value to both buyers and suppliers.
How You’ll Contribute:
- Head Sourcing Operations: You will lead a team of 20+ sourcing specialists and managers to drive sourcing margin and efficiency targets. Drive continuous improvement in sourcing processes by defining and monitoring KPIs across order placement to the delivery funnel. Assess current sourcing workflows, identify bottlenecks, and redesign processes for efficiency
- Drive Sourcing Strategy: Define and execute comprehensive tech and operation strategies for sourcing to drive growth and profitability within all manufacturing verticals. Benchmark against industry best practices to drive net new improvements across a multi-year roadmap
- Lead AI Innovation: Collaborate with our technology teams to enhance our AI-powered matching algorithms, optimizing sourcing cost and supplier selection to improve acceptance rates and margin performance
- Enhance Profitability: Provide input to the pricing, partner and category teams to implement creative strategies and operational improvements to enhance gross margins, partner performance
- Optimize Partner Network Performance: Evaluate performance across partners and geographies to inform sourcing strategy, focusing on capabilities that meet our customers’ evolving needs across capability, geography and price point
- Manage Cross-Functional Initiatives: Collaborate with product, engineering, sales and operations teams to project manage and implement new initiatives that drive marketplace growth
What You'll Bring to Xometry:
- 10+ years of experience in manufacturing, procurement, supply chain management, or marketplace operations with exposure to technology implementation. Consulting experience is preferred.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, technologies, and industry dynamics
- Experience leveraging data analytics and AI to drive strategic business decisions
- Demonstrated success working across organizations to implement complex initiatives
- Ability to create and articulate compelling long-term strategies while delivering short-term results
- MBA or equivalent preferred
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Xometry is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
For US based roles: Xometry participates in E-Verify and after a job offer is accepted, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
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