
Sourcing Supervisor
Lexington, KYFull-time$7.25/hrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
Xometry seeks a sourcing team lead to guide specialists and coordinators through order recovery and complex manufacturing challenges. The role combines coaching and hands-on leadership with supplier and customer negotiations, escalation management, and cross-functional coordination. The lead also manages high-risk orders while supporting efficient order placement, customer outcomes, and team performance metrics.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Experience Required
3 - 20 years
Minimum Education Required
Bachelor's Degree
Compensation
$7.25 / hourly
Hours Per Week
40
Number Of Positions
1
Work Schedule and Shift Requirements
First (Day)
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.
Xometry is seeking a solution-oriented Team Lead for its Sourcing Department. This role involves leading a team of Sourcing Specialists and Coordinators to resolve the company's most complex manufacturing challenges, while also driving customer-first resolutions for its most complex projects. The Team Lead will provide hands-on leadership, coaching, and support to ensure efficient order placement, high-quality customer outcomes, and adherence to key performance metrics.
This role combines people leadership with: technical problem-solving; customer and supplier negotiations; and strategic problem-solving within a rapidly growing department. The ideal candidate is a leader who is comfortable guiding others while balancing their own high-risk orders.
Day to Day:
Lead a team of sourcing professionals throughout the order recovery process and provide coaching, direction, and real-time guidance as appropriate.
Serve as a subject matter expert for advanced recovery strategies, supplier and customer negotiations, and provide support to overcome complex sourcing challenges.
Prioritize escalations and redistribute your team's workload as needed to achieve the team's overall KPIs
Maintain strong cross-functional relationships with internal teams (Design Engineers, Manual Quoting Team, Sales, etc.) to coordinate recovery plans
Independently manage your queue of high-risk / high-visibility escalations
Skills:
Capable of providing clear direction, feedback, and organized escalation summaries (communicated both verbally and in writing) for your team members and internal and external customers
Advanced problem-solving and decision-making skills, particularly in high-pressure or time-sensitive situations
Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to triage and prioritize multiple simultaneous escalations
Comfortable working independently while staying responsive and available to team members
Proficiency with the Google Workspace (Docs and Sheets) or their Microsoft equivalents
Familiarity with Salesforce, Looker, and any CAD software is a plus
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Commerce, or a related field preferred
3+ years of client-facing and vendor-facing experience, preferably in the manufacturing space
2+ years of team leadership or mentoring experience, ideally in an operations, sourcing, or customer-facing environment
Demonstrated success managing escalated or complex workplace situations with clear communication and strong follow-through
#LI-Hybrid
Xometry is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to r ace, color, r eligion, s ex, s exual 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.
Here at Xometry we believe in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are committed to welcoming, respecting, and valuing people for who they are as individuals, learning from their differences, embracing their uniqueness, and providing a positive workplace for all. Xometry is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to r ace, color, r eligion, s ex, s exual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
Job Type
Full time
Benefits Offered
Not specified
Veteran Preference
No
Place of Work
On-site
Requisition ID
5286030007
How this job compares
Set against the 6,988 open Team Lead jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$7.25/hr
- Kentucky median$7/hr37 hourly ranges
- US median$20–24/hr1,365 hourly ranges
This rate, $7.25/hr, is close to the Kentucky median midpoint ($7/hr) — in the middle half of Team Lead hourly ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 150 open Team Lead jobs in Kentucky and 6,988 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Team Lead postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,533 postings).
- Education
- 1,321 of the 6,988 open Team Lead jobs (19%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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