Indirect Purchasing Manager

Location: Sunnyvale, California, USA; full-time hybrid role based in the office with focused remote work.

Annual base salary: $150,400–$172,950 USD.

Company

Builds an AI platform for autonomous driving that enables vehicles to learn from real-world experience and adapt across complex environments and vehicle platforms.

What you will do

• Develop and execute indirect procurement and sourcing strategies aligned with business priorities and cost-efficiency targets.
• Manage sourcing across IT/SaaS, Marketing, People/HR services, Facilities, Security, and other corporate services.
• Lead supplier identification, evaluation, competitive sourcing, negotiation, contracting, onboarding, renewals, performance management, and escalations.
• Manage MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, order forms, and supplier terms in partnership with Legal.
• Analyze spend data, supplier KPIs, market trends, and commercial benchmarks to support savings, budgeting, forecasting, and supplier consolidation.
• Improve procurement governance through supplier scorecards, spend tracking, contract lifecycle management, compliance, ethical sourcing, and risk-management practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier management, or a related purchasing role.
• Experience managing indirect spend categories, ideally including IT/SaaS, Marketing, Facilities, People/HR services, Security, or other corporate services.
• Strong end-to-end supplier contract management experience, including negotiation, contract review, execution, renewals, and ongoing vendor management.
• Understanding of global procurement practices, supplier governance, compliance, and third-party risk management.
• Experience partnering with Legal, Finance, HR, IT, Security, and other business stakeholders in a matrixed or global organization.
• Confident commercial negotiation skills, balancing cost, quality, business requirements, and supplier risk.
• Strong communication, stakeholder-management, organization, and prioritization skills, with the ability to influence across functions and seniority levels.
• Ability to use spend data, supplier performance metrics, benchmarks, and KPIs to make informed decisions and manage multiple sourcing initiatives, contracts, renewals, and supplier relationships.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where priorities can change quickly.

Nice to have

• Experience with procurement or contract-management platforms such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Ivalua, Oracle Procurement Cloud, or similar tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with in-person collaboration in offices and workshops, focused remote work, and core hours.
• Relocation support and visa sponsorship where applicable.
• Market-benchmarked salaries, meaningful equity, and comprehensive location-dependent benefits.
• Health and dental insurance, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, retirement or pension benefits where applicable, therapy access, wellbeing partnerships, and team socials.
• Learning and development budgets supporting training, conferences, and professional growth.
• An evolving environment offering significant ownership in shaping processes and ways of working.

Hiring process

• Initial call or recruiter screen.
• Competency interviews followed by deep-dive technical interviews.
• Final interview focused on mission and values alignment.