Indirect Procurement Category Manager, Marketing

🕒 September 14

🌵 Arizona, California, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $159k - $196k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🛒 Procurement

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Waymo

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

📦 Logistics

🚗 Transport

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $2.5G Private Equity Round on 2021-06

Logistics • Transport • Artificial Intelligence

Waymo is a pioneering autonomous ride-hailing service aiming to revolutionize transportation by making it safer, more accessible, and sustainable. Operating in multiple cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, Waymo offers the world's first driverless ride-hailing service, Waymo One, which utilizes advanced autonomous technology. Their mission is to create safer roads and provide inclusive mobility, ensuring that transportation is consistent and convenient for all, with a strong emphasis on safety and sustainability. Waymo's autonomous technology, known as the Waymo Driver, is designed to offer a new level of freedom in transportation, reducing the dependency on human-driven cars.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end category management for Creative, Media Buying, PR, Public Affairs, and Experiential/Event Marketing • Lead complex negotiations for agency retainers and project-based work • Establish outcome-based commercial models and ensure strict IP and brand protection • Advise Marketing, Communications, and Policy leaders on procurement best practices • Lead end-to-end RFX processes for major Agency of Record consolidations • Build multi-year category strategies and maximize value creation and total cost of ownership • Negotiate and draft Master Services Agreements and Statements of Work • Minimize business risk, focusing on media transparency, usage rights, and liability caps for public-facing output

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7+ years of procurement experience • Minimum of 4 years focusing heavily on Marketing, Communications, PR, or Public Affairs sourcing • Deep understanding of marketing procurement nuances, including agency fee models, media buying transparency, and creative production costs • Proven ability to negotiate complex IP, usage rights, and indemnification clauses within creative and PR contracts • Excellent executive presence and ability to influence and build trust with highly creative marketing leaders and public affairs directors • Experience in the autonomous vehicle, rideshare, or hyper-growth tech sectors preferred • Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Marketing, Supply Chain, or equivalent education and work experience preferred • Prior experience working directly within an advertising or PR agency in an account or commercial role preferred • Ability to work remotely from an approved US location

🏖️ Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus program • Equity incentive plan • Generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements • Remote work arrangement, subject to location availability