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About Formlabs:
A 3D printer is one of the most demanding machines you can build.
Lasers, optics, precision motion, thermals, airflow, materials handling, chemistry, sensing, controls, and software all have to work at micron-scale precision, for thousands of layers, with almost no tolerance for error. Making that work reliably is an extraordinary engineering problem.
That's what we do.
At Formlabs, we're building 3D printers that are changing the way things get made. We have the smartest minds across every engineering discipline, and the technology they're building is deployed at more than 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, New Balance, and NASA.
Your Impact:
Our Manufacturing team makes 3D printing materials at scale, and Materials is one of the fastest-growing and most strategically important parts of our product portfolio. Our powders for our SLS printers are produced by a network of contract manufacturers, and we're increasingly looking at ways to make the supply chain more agile.
We're looking for a commercially minded Materials Sourcing Lead to own our powder supply base. You'll manage contract manufacturer relationships, negotiate the agreements that govern them, and keep cost, capacity, and risk in balance as the business grows. You'll also help shape our long-term strategy, including where vertical integration can improve our cost position, supply security, or control over quality.
This is a role for someone who has managed suppliers and contracts at a strategic level and wants to influence how a fast-growing materials business is built.
The Job:
Contract Manufacturer Management
- Own relationships with powder contract manufacturers and key suppliers, serving as the primary commercial point of contact.
- Run quarterly business reviews with scorecards for quality, delivery, cost, capacity, and responsiveness, and hold partners accountable to their commitments.
- Manage volume allocation across contract manufacturers to balance cost, capacity, and supply risk.
- Partner with Quality to resolve supplier quality issues and make sure corrective actions are delivered.
- Own supplier qualification and onboarding for new contract manufacturers, and maintain the Approved Supplier List.
Commercial Strategy & Negotiation
- Lead negotiations for supply agreements, including pricing, volume commitments, capacity reservations, lead times, payment terms, and continuity provisions.
- Build and maintain total-cost and should-cost models to understand cost drivers and support negotiations.
- Drive annual cost reduction targets and report savings and commercial performance to leadership.
- Manage pricebooks and execute price change workflows in partnership with Finance.
Vertical Integration & Network Strategy
- Evaluate make-versus-buy opportunities across the powder value chain, building business cases that weigh cost, capital investment, risk, and strategic control.
- Support execution of vertical integration initiatives, coordinating with Finance, Manufacturing, and R&D, and managing the transition with existing partners.
- Develop a multi-year sourcing strategy for powder that supports growth, new product launches, and supply resilience.
Supply Risk & Continuity
- Maintain a live supply risk tracker covering capacity constraints, concentration risk, partner financial health, and geopolitical exposure.
- Surface emerging risks proactively and lead mitigation planning, including dual-sourcing, capacity agreements, and inventory strategy.
- Monitor market conditions for polymer feedstocks and translate them into commercial recommendations.
New Materials & NPI
- Identify and source new powder materials and partners that expand our product portfolio.
- Support NPI by setting cost targets, securing supply, and ensuring contract manufacturer readiness ahead of launch.
Cost Visibility & Operations
- Build and maintain dashboards tracking current and forward-looking powder COGS.
- Lead process improvement projects that make sourcing and supplier management more scalable.
You:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, or supplier management, ideally in manufacturing, chemicals, or materials.
- Proven track record managing contract manufacturers or strategic suppliers, including leading complex negotiations with measurable results.
- Experience building business cases and financial models for sourcing, make-versus-buy, or investment decisions.
- Strong analytical skills: advanced Excel/Sheets required; SQL, Python, or Tableau a plus.
- Enough technical fluency to engage credibly with supplier engineers and our R&D team on materials and processes.
- Confident communicator and negotiator with external partners and senior leadership.
Bonus Points
- MBA or graduate degree in business or engineering.
- Experience with polymers, plastics, or powder materials (e.g., nylon, TPU, polypropylene).
- Experience supporting vertical integration, M&A, or new-site projects.
- Background in procurement or operations consulting.
- ERP experience (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle).
Our Benefits & Perks:
- Unlimited 3D printing with any Formlabs material on any Formlabs printer
- An equity program that will let you build wealth through RSUs
- Healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision) that includes a totally free employee-only plan, effective starting on your first day on the job
- 401K matching with no vesting or tenure requirement
- Generous parental leave (fully paid up to 16 weeks)
- Flexible time off so you can take time when you need it
- Six-week fully paid sabbatical after hitting tenure milestones (with the option to take an additional six weeks after that)
- Free on-site parking & pre-tax commuter benefits
- Free on-site lunch, snacks, beverages, treats, beer kegs, and employee-favorite local coffee and espresso
- Self-driven professional development opportunities like conferences, trade shows, and hackathons
- One-of-a-kind activities and events like monthly socials, the annual weekend summer camp, a can't-miss company hackathon, and lots of other social opportunities
You don't need to check every box to apply for a role. If you love working with hardware, spending time with smart people, solving hard problems, and winning, we want to hear from you.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Our Candidate AI Guidelines are available here. Please give them a read.
About Formlabs:
A 3D printer is one of the most demanding machines you can build.
Lasers, optics, precision motion, thermals, airflow, materials handling, chemistry, sensing, controls, and software all have to work at micron-scale precision, for thousands of layers, with almost no tolerance for error. Making that work reliably is an extraordinary engineering problem.
That's what we do.
At Formlabs, we're building 3D printers that are changing the way things get made. We have the smartest minds across every engineering discipline, and the technology they're building is deployed at more than 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, New Balance, and NASA.
Your Impact:
Our Manufacturing team makes 3D printing materials at scale, and Materials is one of the fastest-growing and most strategically important parts of our product portfolio. Our powders for our SLS printers are produced by a network of contract manufacturers, and we're increasingly looking at ways to make the supply chain more agile.
We're looking for a commercially minded Materials Sourcing Lead to own our powder supply base. You'll manage contract manufacturer relationships, negotiate the agreements that govern them, and keep cost, capacity, and risk in balance as the business grows. You'll also help shape our long-term strategy, including where vertical integration can improve our cost position, supply security, or control over quality.
This is a role for someone who has managed suppliers and contracts at a strategic level and wants to influence how a fast-growing materials business is built.
The Job:
Contract Manufacturer Management
- Own relationships with powder contract manufacturers and key suppliers, serving as the primary commercial point of contact.
- Run quarterly business reviews with scorecards for quality, delivery, cost, capacity, and responsiveness, and hold partners accountable to their commitments.
- Manage volume allocation across contract manufacturers to balance cost, capacity, and supply risk.
- Partner with Quality to resolve supplier quality issues and make sure corrective actions are delivered.
- Own supplier qualification and onboarding for new contract manufacturers, and maintain the Approved Supplier List.
Commercial Strategy & Negotiation
- Lead negotiations for supply agreements, including pricing, volume commitments, capacity reservations, lead times, payment terms, and continuity provisions.
- Build and maintain total-cost and should-cost models to understand cost drivers and support negotiations.
- Drive annual cost reduction targets and report savings and commercial performance to leadership.
- Manage pricebooks and execute price change workflows in partnership with Finance.
Vertical Integration & Network Strategy
- Evaluate make-versus-buy opportunities across the powder value chain, building business cases that weigh cost, capital investment, risk, and strategic control.
- Support execution of vertical integration initiatives, coordinating with Finance, Manufacturing, and R&D, and managing the transition with existing partners.
- Develop a multi-year sourcing strategy for powder that supports growth, new product launches, and supply resilience.
Supply Risk & Continuity
- Maintain a live supply risk tracker covering capacity constraints, concentration risk, partner financial health, and geopolitical exposure.
- Surface emerging risks proactively and lead mitigation planning, including dual-sourcing, capacity agreements, and inventory strategy.
- Monitor market conditions for polymer feedstocks and translate them into commercial recommendations.
New Materials & NPI
- Identify and source new powder materials and partners that expand our product portfolio.
- Support NPI by setting cost targets, securing supply, and ensuring contract manufacturer readiness ahead of launch.
Cost Visibility & Operations
- Build and maintain dashboards tracking current and forward-looking powder COGS.
- Lead process improvement projects that make sourcing and supplier management more scalable.
You:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, or supplier management, ideally in manufacturing, chemicals, or materials.
- Proven track record managing contract manufacturers or strategic suppliers, including leading complex negotiations with measurable results.
- Experience building business cases and financial models for sourcing, make-versus-buy, or investment decisions.
- Strong analytical skills: advanced Excel/Sheets required; SQL, Python, or Tableau a plus.
- Enough technical fluency to engage credibly with supplier engineers and our R&D team on materials and processes.
- Confident communicator and negotiator with external partners and senior leadership.
Bonus Points
- MBA or graduate degree in business or engineering.
- Experience with polymers, plastics, or powder materials (e.g., nylon, TPU, polypropylene).
- Experience supporting vertical integration, M&A, or new-site projects.
- Background in procurement or operations consulting.
- ERP experience (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle).
Our Benefits & Perks:
- Unlimited 3D printing with any Formlabs material on any Formlabs printer
- An equity program that will let you build wealth through RSUs
- Healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision) that includes a totally free employee-only plan, effective starting on your first day on the job
- 401K matching with no vesting or tenure requirement
- Generous parental leave (fully paid up to 16 weeks)
- Flexible time off so you can take time when you need it
- Six-week fully paid sabbatical after hitting tenure milestones (with the option to take an additional six weeks after that)
- Free on-site parking & pre-tax commuter benefits
- Free on-site lunch, snacks, beverages, treats, beer kegs, and employee-favorite local coffee and espresso
- Self-driven professional development opportunities like conferences, trade shows, and hackathons
- One-of-a-kind activities and events like monthly socials, the annual weekend summer camp, a can't-miss company hackathon, and lots of other social opportunities
You don't need to check every box to apply for a role. If you love working with hardware, spending time with smart people, solving hard problems, and winning, we want to hear from you.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Our Candidate AI Guidelines are available here. Please give them a read.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Manufacturing
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in sourcing lead jobs.
- Three or more years of strategic sourcing or procurement experience
- Proficiency with an enterprise resource planning or procurement platform such as SAP Ariba or Coupa
- Demonstrated experience leading RFx processes and supplier negotiations
- Strong analytical skills including spend analysis and total cost of ownership modeling
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, or a related field
- Professional certification such as CSCP, CPSM, or CPM preferred
Tips for Your Sourcing Lead Job Search
Quantify your cost savings results
Hiring managers for sourcing lead roles want to see numbers, not duties. Replace vague bullets like 'managed supplier relationships' with specific outcomes: how much you reduced costs, how many vendors you consolidated, or how quickly you turned around a sourcing cycle.
Tailor your resume to procurement category
A sourcing lead resume for a direct materials role reads differently than one for indirect or IT procurement. Pull the category language straight from each job posting and reflect it in your summary and experience sections so your background maps cleanly to what that team buys.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists sourcing lead openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Highlight cross-functional stakeholder work
Sourcing leads rarely work in isolation, so show that you've coordinated with engineering, finance, or operations on sourcing decisions. Interviewers want evidence you can align internal stakeholders before you've even placed an RFQ or run a supplier negotiation.
Prepare a negotiation case study for interviews
Most sourcing lead interviews include a behavioral or case round focused on a real supplier negotiation you've led. Walk in with one clear example covering your preparation, your leverage points, the outcome, and what you'd do differently, all in under three minutes.
Push for scope clarity before accepting an offer
Sourcing lead titles vary widely, with some managing a team and others working individually as individual contributors. Before you accept, confirm the reporting structure, category scope, and whether the role owns strategy or executes it, so the job you start matches the job you interviewed for.
Sourcing Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most sourcing leads?
Faith Technologies Incorporated, ASML, and SLB are hiring the most sourcing leads right now, with openings concentrated in Texas, California, and Ohio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Activity tends to cluster in manufacturing-heavy states and large metro areas with significant retail or tech procurement operations.
How many sourcing lead jobs are remote?
About 79% of sourcing lead openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote availability higher for indirect and IT category roles than for direct materials positions that require on-site supplier or production line interaction. Hybrid schedules are the most common arrangement across the field.
How do you become a sourcing lead?
Most sourcing leads move up from buyer or sourcing specialist roles after building hands-on experience running RFx events, negotiating contracts, and managing supplier relationships. Strengthening your category knowledge, earning a procurement certification, and demonstrating that you can lead cross-functional projects without close supervision are the clearest steps toward a lead-level title.
Can you get hired as a sourcing lead with limited experience?
Some employers will consider candidates with strong adjacent experience in purchasing, supply chain coordination, or vendor management even if the resume doesn't show a formal sourcing lead title. Framing your experience around cost outcomes, supplier decisions, and cross-functional coordination, rather than task completion, closes the gap faster than any certification alone.
What does the sourcing lead interview process look like?
Most sourcing lead processes include an initial screening call, a hiring manager conversation focused on your sourcing approach and category experience, and a final round with behavioral questions or a live case study involving a supplier negotiation or make-versus-buy scenario. Some employers add a stakeholder panel with finance or engineering before extending an offer.
Where can I find and apply to sourcing lead jobs?
You can find and apply to sourcing lead jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your background and category experience, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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