Indirect Procurement Category Manager

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October 7

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Waymo

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Transport • Artificial Intelligence • Autonomous Vehicles

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.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

🚗 Transport

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $2.5G Private Equity Round on 2021-06

📋 Description

• Provide subject matter expertise and leadership on the categories you are responsible for including construction, operations facilities and the procurement of chargers, switch gears and other equipment to meet pressing demand schedules across our scaling operations. • In partnership with stakeholders, develop multi-year category strategies that maximize value creation for Waymo. • Lead the end-to-end RFX process, build relationships with strategic suppliers and oversee complex, Waymo-wide supplier relations, developing solutions to new problems and using foresight to anticipate future trends and issues. • Negotiate and draft agreements that minimize financial and business risk exposure, provide optimal terms and conditions, and enforce supplier accountability. • Analyze data to determine the value of negotiations and the final change in total cost of ownership • Solve impactful multi-dimensional issues by implementing new processes, systems, or policies that address Waymo’s indirect procurement needs.

🎯 Requirements

• At least 10 years of procurement experience including 7+ years focusing on physical security, facilities, or construction services spend areas. • Sourcing skills include: identifying sourcing opportunities, performing spend analysis, development of sourcing strategy, project management, development of RFX documents, negotiation, contract management, supplier bench-marking, contract compliance, purchase order development, resolution of payment issues, etc. • Excellent interpersonal skills to deal effectively with all internal and external business contacts • Ability to perform make versus buy outsourcing analyses and to develop total cost of ownership models • Ability to influence others and to act as a change agent within their team and company • High personal integrity and ethics.

🏖️ Benefits

• Waymo employees are also eligible to participate in Waymo’s discretionary annual bonus program • equity incentive plan • generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.