What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Project Manager - Products Supply Chain position at Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.?
Overview
Who we are
Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world's most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We're looking for diverse, talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.
Technology Manager
Toyota's OneTech Digital Supply Chain & Fulfillment Transformation team is looking for a passionate, dedicated, and highly motivated Technology Manager who is an experienced technology leader, who will drive the Product delivery of Vehicle supply chain transformation initiative & projects to enable the North American Vehicle Supply Chain North Star Vision.
This member should demonstrate strong technology leadership, relationship building, and influential communication, be well organized, create Business case, product road maps and oversee all stages of product execution including requirements, design and development ensuring quality deliverables. Monitor and evaluate product progress at each stage of the process, liaising with the business product team and end-users.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Fulfillment Transformation, the person in this role will support the Vehicle Supply Chain department's objective, accelerate the transformation and adoption of modern & emerging technologies / platforms.
What you'll be doing
- Technical Leadership : Understand changing business needs and industry best practices. Recommend technology strategies and solutions for the future based on technical and economic feasibility. Understand implications of the business needs and direction, and how that impacts solutions across the portfolio.
- Stakeholder Engagement : Communicate and build relationships with users, customers, and management team on future vision, translate vision into quick POVs, solutions, and technical roadmap. Serve as a liaison between Business and OneTech to influence direction and achieve buy in to solutions.
- Delivery Management : Establish clear priorities, develop robust implementation plans, resource performance, oversee execution of plans, and contribute to team performance against defined objectives, commitments and standards.
- Pragmatic Solutions : Partner with Enterprise Architecture team to review and analyze major design decisions, ultimately providing recommendations and seeking buy in. Influence other groups within OneTech on technology decisions.
- Vendor Management : Technical oversight of vendor teams building solutions. Provide guidance on technical solutions, confirm design conformance and viability, perform detailed analysis of vendor resource plans, development schedule, and associated effort & cost estimates. Ensure technical deliverables are in adherence to TMNA Enterprise standards and best practices. Maintain awareness of improvements and lessons learned across portfolio projects and solutions. Ensure kaizen and lessons learned are applied across portfolio, helping suppliers improve.
- Solution Simplification : Provide leadership to suppliers in systems analysis and design of complex system architectures and multi-platform business processes. Lead regular reviews of the portfolio(s) to identify opportunities for improvement in the areas of Stability, Performance and Complexity Reduction. Identify and report on metrics that quantify the benefit of these improvements.
- Agile Development : Apply disciplined software development processes, utilizing agile framework (scrum) and leading-edge technologies to engineer and implement automated solutions to business problems. Take the lead on influencing changes and improvements to the processes.
- Fiscal Discipline : Gain comprehensive understanding of Total Cost of Ownerships (TCO) for existing applications and perform analysis for all technical design decision to fully understand TCO implications, with goal of reducing ongoing product maintenance / core technology costs.
What you bring
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What We'll Bring
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Belonging at Toyota
Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace diverse perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10 different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members' efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong. As a company that has been one of DiversityInc's Top 50 Companies for Diversity and a member of The Billion Dollar Roundtable supporting minority and woman-owned suppliers for over 10 years, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that celebrates the diversity of the communities where we live and do business.
Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.
Have a question, need assistance with your application or do you require any special accommodations? Please send an email to talent.acquisition@toyota.com.
