Director, Sourcing Strategy & Operations

Job Description

Director, Sourcing Strategy & Operations | Xometry

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Xometry, operating on a Hybrid schedule. Xometry empowers industries by connecting innovative ideas with manufacturing capabilities, offering a digital marketplace that provides critical resources to manufacturers and access to global capacity for buyers. This role is pivotal in driving the strategic vision and execution of the US domestic sourcing team across key manufacturing verticals, directly enabling revenue and margin growth for the marketplace. The Director will be a key leader in revolutionizing the $2 trillion custom manufacturing industry through an AI-powered platform.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Hybrid
• Location: Hybrid

• Team: Leads a team of 20+ sourcing specialists and managers
• Mission: Owns and drives the strategic vision and execution of the US domestic sourcing team to enable revenue and margin growth and solve complex sourcing problems.
• Tech Stack: AI-powered matching algorithms, AI-powered platform

What You’ll Actually Do
• Head Sourcing Operations: Lead a team of 20+ sourcing specialists and managers to achieve sourcing margin and efficiency targets, improving processes from order placement to delivery.
• Drive Sourcing Strategy: Define and execute comprehensive technology and operation strategies for sourcing to drive growth and profitability across all manufacturing verticals.
• Lead AI Innovation: Collaborate with technology teams to enhance AI-powered matching algorithms, optimizing sourcing cost and supplier selection to improve acceptance rates and margin.
• Enhance Profitability: Provide input to pricing, partner, and category teams to implement creative strategies and operational improvements to enhance gross margins and partner performance.
• Optimize Partner Network Performance: Evaluate performance across partners and geographies to inform sourcing strategy, focusing on capabilities that meet customer needs.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Director-level experience with 10+ years in manufacturing, procurement, supply chain management, or marketplace operations.
• Experience: 10+ years of experience with exposure to technology implementation, leveraging data analytics and AI for strategic business decisions, and demonstrated success working across organizations to implement complex initiatives.
• Skills: Understanding of manufacturing processes, technologies, and industry dynamics, data analytics, AI application, strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration.
• Bonus: Consulting experience, MBA or equivalent.