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CapEx Sourcing Manager

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Meta designs, develops, and builds AR/VR products. The Strategic Sourcing team is responsible for spend from raw materials to the final consumer product and owns the commercial growth strategy and business relationships with various suppliers and manufacturers. The sourcing team moves fast and leverages key partnerships to drive technical innovation, high quality standards and cost-savings via a customized supply chain.

Meta is seeking a CAPEX Sourcing Manager for our Reality Labs (RL) Division. The person in this role will have the opportunity to manage and develop our CAPEX Sourcing Strategy across our spend by providing functional expertise and best-practices.

The CAPEX Sourcing Manager is responsible for developing, communicating and executing the CAPEX sourcing strategy to optimize the total Cost of Ownership. You will be responsible for leading a cross functional team in managing the total CAPEX investment cost with our partners for both off-the-shelf and customized manufacturing and testing equipment to enable our future products and technologies.

In this role, you will lead the cross-functional effort to identify, engage and enable the best partners. You will be responsible for developing the strategic relationship with our partners, including negotiating commercial agreements, negotiating cost, optimizing the collaboration between the teams and developing long term strategy to grow a robust partnership.

You will work closely with Strategic Sourcing, Product operations, Hardware engineering, Tooling Engineering, Manufacturing Design Engineering, DFx, Test Engineering and other cross-functional teams to create an innovative partnership.

CapEx Sourcing Manager Responsibilities

• Develop, communicate and execute Reality Labs global CAPEX equipment sourcing and management strategy
• Identify and engage the CAPEX equipment partners to enable cutting-edge technologies and products with high quality, on-time delivery, and competitive cost
• Develop partner selection strategy with cross-functional stakeholders, including RFQ/RFP, sourcing strategy and final supplier selection
• Negotiate commercial agreements to meet technical, operational and commercial requirements, including after-sales services
• Negotiate NRE and unit cost to ensure competitive cost for our products. Actively look for cost optimization opportunities and lead cross-functional effort to achieve it
• Actively drive analysis of historical spend data and suggest savings opportunities maximizing financial impact for future products and provide expertise for developing budgets
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders to identify opportunities to leverage our partners’ capability to grow business
• Enable the cross-functional team to collaborate with their counterparts on the partner side to ensure open, efficient and professional relationships
• Participate in hiring, training, developing, and share best practices in executing CAPEX management strategy and achieving significant cost improvements
• Up to 20% travel may be required (domestic/international)

Minimum Qualifications

• Engineering or Technical BS degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in custom equipment and fixture development & sourcing, in the consumer electronics industry
• Experience in injection molding & tooling cost analysis
• Experience in supplier evaluation/selection, assessing technical specifications, functional features and cost trade-offs
• Experience with custom equipment should cost models, cost negotiation and supply base management
• Experience with pricing and sourcing of key equipment components
• Understanding of factory operations in the consumer electronics industry
• Program management, and cross-functional teamwork experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with sourcing equipment for small form factor devices, e.g., wearable products
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Proven track record of driving a structured, result-oriented negotiation process and measurable negotiation results such as cost savings, improved contract terms, or supply base optimization
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world.

Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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