Strategic Sourcing Manager

The role

You will lead Zoox's strategic sourcing and industry partnerships. You will find and evaluate suppliers, draft and issue RFQs, negotiate key terms and pricing, and manage third-party relationships.

What you will do

• Lead procurement and partnership initiatives for vehicle direct materials and/or operations infrastructure
• Work with stakeholders to set and execute a 3-5 year business and technology roadmap
• Develop the supply chain and partnership footprint with a long-term view
• Lead day-to-day partnership management, including milestones, change orders, quality and cost control
• Design 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
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key suppliers as lead commercial contact
• 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, financial and business opportunity analysis skills
• Comfort with legal frameworks and contract negotiation (development, supply, licensing and service agreements)
• Excellent communication skills to influence cross-functional stakeholders, including C-level
• 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

About the company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem to bring it to market. It aims to provide next-generation mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.