Planning Manager – Validation

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $159k - $196k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Waymo

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

🚗 Transport

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $2.5G Private Equity Round on 2021-06

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.

📋 Description

• Own the testing & validation demand and supply plans and processes for your domain, working with key stakeholders to define objectives, priorities, requirements, and supply needs • Drive comprehensive planning cycles with key stakeholders, understanding every working nuance of your domain to optimize operations across all intersecting areas of planning, product, and execution • Build and manage models to accurately forecast, answer "what-if" scenarios, and extract operational insights that can only be gleaned through rigorous planning processes • Lead cross-functional initiatives to transform operating models and drive efficiencies across teams involved in testing & validation • Uplevel core planning software and methodologies, applying expertise in planning software and spreadsheet-driven models to ensure accurate forecasting and alignment with corporate financial strategy

🎯 Requirements

• Experience owning end-to-end planning cycles and acting as a strategic, cross-functional partner to stakeholders and leadership • Demonstrated strong business judgement, communication skills, and ability to distill complex data and analysis to develop and advocate for your own positions and recommendations to cross-functional partners and leaders • Deep, hands-on expertise in navigating and building models within enterprise planning platforms and spreadsheets, including using data tools (SQL) • A proven track record of acting as an advocate and leader to drive cross-functional strategy, cost-down initiatives, and efficiency optimizations • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Industrial Engineering, Finance, Business Analytics, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • 5+ years of relevant professional experience in planning / supply chain, strategic operations, financial planning, management consulting, or an analytical business function • Master's degree (MBA preferred) in Finance, Economics, Operations Research, or a related discipline (preferred) • 8+ years of strategic execution within high-velocity environments such as management consulting, private equity, investment banking, or hyper-growth tech (preferred) • Direct experience in resource planning and management for staff and/or vehicles (preferred) • Experience and technical knowledge of forecasting methodologies and forecast accuracy measurement (preferred) • Demonstrated success operating within a highly matrixed organization, expertly driving alignment, negotiating priorities, and ensuring unified execution across operations, product, finance, and corporate strategy (preferred) • Experience using Anaplan for demand and supply planning processes (planning software tool) (preferred).

🏖️ 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.