Senior Manager – CAPEX & Tooling Procurement

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Organization Building

• Build and lead the CAPEX & Tooling Procurement organization, including hiring, mentoring, and developing a high-performing team of Strategic Sourcing Managers.
• Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering leadership to inform factory design, production readiness, and industrialization roadmaps.
• Establish scalable processes, procurement governance, and operating cadences tailored for a rapidly growing manufacturing organization.

Strategy & Execution

• Develop and execute the sourcing strategy for factory build-outs, production equipment, automation, and manufacturing infrastructure.
• Oversee the sourcing and supplier strategy for all factory, production and sub-assembly tooling, including robots, stamping dies, casting tooling, molds, and assembly fixtures.
• Develop long-term sourcing roadmaps that enable new production launches, capacity expansion, and localization efforts.

Commercial & Supplier Management

• Lead complex commercial negotiations, including master agreements, tooling contracts, SOWs, and pricing frameworks.
• Establish and enforce robust governance across cost control, milestone adherence, engineering changes, supplier quality, and risk mitigation.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key automation, tooling, and equipment partners.
• Drive total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling, should-cost analysis, and cost transparency initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of strategic sourcing, procurement, supply chain, or commercial leadership experience. Ability to operate effectively across engineering, quality, operations, finance, and executive leadership.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience, including leading and developing sourcing teams.
• Significant experience leading CAPEX procurement and tooling sourcing within a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience supporting the build-out or launch of a production factory, plant, or major manufacturing line. Proven experience sourcing and negotiating for production equipment, automation systems, assembly lines & tooling.
• Strong commercial acumen with expertise in complex contract negotiation and supplier governance. Experience managing large-scale supplier relationships and multi-million dollar capital programs.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience supporting greenfield factory builds or major production expansion programs.
• Strong preference for experience in automotive, EV, autonomous systems, aerospace, industrial manufacturing, other complex hardware production environments.
• Experience building procurement functions, category strategies, and operating processes from the ground up.
• Familiarity with tooling lifecycle management, tooling amortization structures, and ownership agreements.
• MBA or advanced technical / supply chain degree preferred.