Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, Professional Services

Number of employees

4100

Foster City, CA, United States

Posted on: 2025-11-03

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Zoox is transforming mobility-as-a-service by developing a fully autonomous, purpose-built fleet designed for AI to drive and humans to enjoy.


You will be responsible for Zoox’s strategic sourcing and engineering professional services partnerships within the Indirect Procurement space. This includes working cross-functionally to understand needs for third-party engagement across the business, finding and evaluating potential partners and suppliers, drafting and issuing RFQs, leading or assisting in the negotiation of all key terms and conditions as well as pricing, managing commercial and supply chain issues, identifying and executing on cost reduction opportunities, and overall management of third party relationships across various categories of spend.

In this role, you will:

  • Support various departments in the procurement of engineering and professional services (with a focus on large-scale commercial partnerships for business operations) 
  • Support and inform internal stakeholders for supplier selection and management
  • Identify sourcing alternatives to drive efficiencies via benchmarking, competitive quotes, and engineering changes
  • Negotiate the cost and other terms and conditions of such purchases by collaborating with the stakeholders and legal team
  • Ensure a smooth procure-to-pay process by working with the stakeholders and finance team
  • Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of experience in procurement, program management, finance, consulting, or business development in a technology-related industry
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Experience with strategic sourcing, financial and business opportunity analysis, legal frameworks and contract negotiation
  • Ability to work independently on multiple tasks and projects with various stakeholders
  • Organizational skills to manage and track transactional details
  • Bonus Qualifications:

  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders
  • Technical writing skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Ability to work in a team environment to achieve business objectives
  • Open-minded self-starter with the ability to adapt, improvise, and problem-solver
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