Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, CapEx

Hybrid

Posted over 1 year ago

Supply Chain Quality and Reliability

Job Description

The Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager will lead commercial strategy, advisory, and execution for all Zoox manufacturing projects. It will own Zoox manufacturing third-party relationships end-to-end to lead (i) competitive sourcing and negotiations, (ii) project execution, and (iii) ongoing performance of manufacturing suppliers. Finally, this role will support negotiation of capital equipment in the Zoox supply chain and also support future production strategizing.

These activities ensure that Zoox’s manufacturing organizations can successfully and predictably produce complex systems at scale through world-class supplier relationships and cost structures.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

Lead procurement and partnership initiatives for Zoox’s manufacturing organizations; build and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers as the lead point of contact for all commercial topics

Lead the day-to-day process of ensuring successful partnerships (milestone adherence, change order management, quality assurance, cost control, etc.) and build supplier performance assessments to support future sourcing decisions

Proactively engage with Zoox stakeholders (incl. engineering, operations, manufacturing, strategy, finance, and design) to derive and execute the short- and medium-term business and technology roadmap to support Zoox’s vehicle assembly and service deployment

Design, conduct, and synthesize supplier, industry, and market research; drive cost transparency and build total cost of ownership models to support sourcing decisions

Ensure optimal contract coverage for the commodity/service in partnership with engineering and legal support

Requirements

Qualifications

8+ years of experience focused on commercial analysis and decisions

Expertise in capital projects and equipment for hardware manufacturing/production

Experience driving completion of complex projects with internal and external parties

Ability to view project dependencies end-to-end and proactively mitigate risks or prepare for future needs

Successfully crafted, negotiated, and executed complex contractual agreements

Bonus Qualifications

Open-minded self-starter with the ability to adapt, improvise, and problem-solve

Ability to work independently on multiple tasks and projects with various stakeholders

Organizational skills to manage and track transactional details

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Posted on: May 22, 2025
Job type: Full-time
Salary range: USD 155000-210000 per-year-salary
Location: Foster City, CAHybrid

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