What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Supply Chain Manager - Direct Purchasing position at Wayve?
The Role:
We’re looking for a global supplier manager who is passionate about working with engineers to bring early stage product development to scale and building a supply chain to meet this challenge. As the global supplier manager you will build relationships with a number of suppliers and partners across a broad set of industries to negotiate favorable terms and conditions, pricing and secure and confirm availability of product. These supply chains will need to be created in partnership with the engineering teams to help guide the product development as it scales and evolves with technological enhancement and control of quality. The GSM will be accountable for Supplier Relationship Management and costs of the product, with the ability to communicate these to leadership, and work to provide parallel or alternative paths to manufacturing for improvements in cost and demand.
Challenges you will own
- Working within a hardware enabled software company has its challenges regarding establishing supplier relationships for low volume take-up for early adoption of high technology products.
- The GSM will establish supplier relationships and manage the requirements in collaboration with our engineering team.
- You will help our hardware team enable our platform for software development, you will build requirements for our supply chains that have to be agile and adaptive to respond to short term requests and continual evolution of the design.
- The GSM will handle cost management of bill of material which is critical and it is the responsibility of the GSM to drive cost out of the supply chain whilst also working with engineering to identify design for manufacture opportunities.
What you will bring to Wayve
Essential:
- Experience bringing newly developed products to scale through partner relationships
- Ability to do cost accounting for products and negotiate improvements with scale
- Ability to drive decision making across a broad group of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience in collaborative development between internal teams and external partners and suppliers
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to represent a broad range of tradeoffs and decisions to both working level teams and leadership.
- Comfortable working in an agile program environment with aggressive milestones
Desirable:
- Autonomous Vehicle or Automotive Experience
- Knowledge of Import and Export operations and regulation
What we offer you
- Attractive compensation with salary and equity
- Immersion in a team of world-class researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs
- A unique position to shape the future of autonomous driving and tackle the biggest challenge of our time
- Bespoke learning and development opportunities
- Relocation support with visa sponsorship
- Flexible working hours - we trust you to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team
- Private onsite chef, in-house bar, lots of socials, and more!
This is a full-time role based in our office in Sunnyvale, CA. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.
Wayve is built by people from all walks of life. We believe that it is our differences that make us stronger, and our unique perspectives and backgrounds that allow us to build something different. We are proud to be an equal opportunities workplace, where we don’t just embrace diversity but nurture it - so that we all thrive and grow.
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