Strategic Sourcing Manager, Mechanical Components

The role

You will lead strategic sourcing and partnerships for vehicle direct materials, including interiors, structural components and advanced hardware. You will find and evaluate suppliers, issue RFQs, and negotiate terms, pricing and cost reductions across the business.

What you will do

• Lead procurement and partnership initiatives for vehicle direct materials (interiors, structural components, advanced hardware)
• Work with stakeholders to build a medium-term (3-5 year) business and technology roadmap for the vehicle program and autonomous ride-hailing service
• Develop the supply chain and partnership footprint with a long-term, strategic view
• Manage milestones, change orders, quality assurance and cost control for partnerships
• Design, conduct and synthesize supplier, industry and market research
• Build total cost of ownership models to support sourcing decisions
• Ensure contract coverage with engineering and legal support
• Serve as lead contact for key suppliers on all commercial issues
• Review and finalize supplier quote packages
• Identify sourcing alternatives through benchmarking and competitive quotes

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in partnership development and/or purchasing in a hardware product environment
• Bachelor's degree
• Strategic sourcing skills
• Financial and business opportunity analysis skills
• Comfort with legal frameworks and contract negotiation (development, supply, licensing and service agreements)
• Excellent communication skills, able to influence C-level, engineering, legal, finance, manufacturing and logistics stakeholders
• Excellent analytical skills
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills

Nice to have

• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment to achieve business objectives
• Demonstrated ability to identify business process issues and drive process improvement
• Open-minded self-starter who can 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

Before you apply

• Accommodations are available for the application or interview process; contact accommodations@zoox.com or your recruiter

About the company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem to bring it to market. It works at the intersection of robotics, machine learning and design to provide mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.