Strategic Sourcing Manager, Battery

The role

You will lead strategic sourcing and industry partnerships for vehicle direct materials, including battery cells or batteries. You will find and evaluate suppliers, issue RFQs, negotiate terms and pricing, and manage supplier relationships.

What you will do

• Lead procurement and partnership initiatives for vehicle direct materials (battery cells or batteries)
• Work with engineering, operations, manufacturing, strategy, finance and design to set a 3-5 year business and technology roadmap
• Develop the supply chain and partnership footprint with a long-term view
• Ensure successful partnerships: milestones, change orders, quality assurance and cost control
• 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
• Build and maintain strategic relationships as lead contact for commercial issues
• Review and finalize supplier quote packages
• Identify sourcing alternatives through benchmarking, competitive quotes and changing requirements

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
• 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

Before you apply

• You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply

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.