Procurement Specialist in Oxford

At Oxa, we're building the future of Industrial Mobile Autonomy (IMA) and are in the market for new talent. Oxa's customers are the operators of some of the world's largest industrial facilities. Our technology transforms existing industrial vehicles into intelligent autonomous fleets, unlocking new levels of productivity, safety, and performance.

This towing task happens in complex, commerce-critical industrial environments. Here, having self-driving technology "do the driving" delivers immediate, measurable impact. IMA will revolutionise the movement of goods across the world's ports, airports, and yards. You can be part of that as an Oxbot.

Our Products:

• Oxa Ware - Our modular autonomy hardware systems for consistent and repeatable integration of autonomy with existing vehicles.
• Oxa Driver - Our Physical AI, embodied in Oxa Ware, self-driving software that enables vehicles to perceive, reason, and drive autonomously in complex real-world environments.
• Oxa Foundry - Our development toolchain that leverages generative AI to continuously train and assure Oxa Driver, synthesising situations and sensor data.
• Oxa Hub - Our suite of cloud services for monitoring, managing and orchestrating fleets driven by Oxa Driver, including an API for integration with existing logistics systems.

Behind these technologies is our exceptional team, the Oxbots. We are home to some of the world's leading experts in autonomous systems, robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, and distributed software engineering. Together, we're solving some of the hardest technical challenges in autonomy, turning the research and development we do into production and deploying it into environments. Making robots do useful work.

Your Team:

Oxa's procurement team ensures the organisation acquires goods and services that meet quality, cost and timing requirements while complying with legal, ethical and financial standards.

Your Responsibilities:

• Assisting with the purchasing of materials and services required by Oxa’s operations and scaling customer programs globally, with an initial focus on indirect procurement.
• Placing orders using our systems, tracking and receiving them, and supporting invoice processing and payment reconciliation.
• Owning the delivery of Software and Subscriptions management and renewals, liaising with stakeholders across the company and establishing a standard repeatable process for it, enabling early review, benchmarking, negotiation and including appropriate due diligence.
• Ensuring Software and Subscription contract compliance tracking, providing reports and driving savings and improvements.
• Coordinating the business travel program, including delivery of new travel booking platform.
• Identifying and evaluating new suppliers, ensuring legal and security compliance, establishing positive relationships with them, obtaining great value for money and building a resilient supply base.
• Managing supplier performance.
• Supporting Goods-in and stock management when required.
• Supporting change management initiatives.

Requirements:

• Recent, relevant experience within a procurement role.
• Strong and proven negotiating skills.
• An understanding of a scale-up environment and of a manufacturing/engineering/automotive/tech environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including stakeholder-management skills and a demonstrated ability to interact effectively with suppliers, management, and peers.
• A detail-oriented and organised approach that delivers consistently high-quality services to deadlines within a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to prioritise workload.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work effectively on own initiative within a team as well as to contribute constructively.
• High proficiency in Excel and databases.
• Strong numeracy skills.
• A change-positive attitude.
• A customer-centric focus.

Extra kudos if you have:

• Sourcing experience.
• Experience with Xero, MANU, ZIP.
• Experience in managing complex Bills of Materials.
• Willingness to learn but also to educate others.

Your Interview Experience:

Our interview process is designed to give you every chance to get the measure of us, and us of you. You will join three stages which will give you every opportunity to show your strengths and qualities, via scenario-based questions and technical exercises.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary benchmarked against the market.
• Participation in a great company equity scheme.
• Enhanced pension contributions.
• Annual holiday allowance of 25 days per year.
• Overseas working policy for up to 8 weeks per year.
• Flexible, hybrid and remote working arrangements.
• Comprehensive Private Health cover with the option to add family members.
• Enhanced health and wellbeing benefits including health cash plan, critical illness cover, life assurance and group income protection.
• Enhanced paid maternity and paternity policy.

If you're excited by deep technical problems, real-world AI, and the opportunity to build technology that will reshape global industry, you'll find both the challenge and the impact you're looking for at Oxa.