# Senior Manager – CAPEX & Tooling Procurement

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA
**Role:** Business Operations
**Salary:** $235k – $283k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Strategic Sourcing, Capex Procurement, Tooling Sourcing, Supplier Management, Contract Negotiation, Tco Modeling, Should-Cost Analysis, Supply Chain Management, Procurement Governance, People Leadership
**Posted:** 2026-05-07

> Leads CAPEX and tooling procurement organization for autonomous vehicle manufacturing, building teams, developing sourcing strategies for factory infrastructure/equipment/tooling, managing supplier partnerships, and driving commercial negotiations. Requires 10+ years procurement experience, 5+ years leadership, and manufacturing background.

## Job Description

## 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.

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