Program Manager - Vendor Enablement Office

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.

Waymo's Procurement and Vendor Enablement Office is a diverse, collaborative, and service-oriented group with a mission to efficiently procure indirect goods and services, build supplier relationships, and support outsourcing excellence to achieve Waymo's growth goals. The Vendor Enablement Office works across Waymo to ensure the right type of workforce is being deployed in the right locations and managed to provide service excellence. We provide oversight and are responsible for the strategy, governance and lifecycle operations across our temporary staff and outsourced services workforce. The team implement programs, provides processes, sets policies and manages governance to make it easier and less risky for Waymonauts to successfully engage with an extended workforce.

You will be based remotely and report into our Director - Procurement and Vendor Enablement Office.

You will:

• Collaborate with Waymo's Operations Team to lead high impact strategic programs that transform and mature Waymo's outsourced service delivery.
• Build deep supplier relationships; promote supplier excellence and continuous improvement to evolve our operations.
• Evaluate supplier performance against metrics; lead quarterly business reviews, manage relationships with suppliers to ensure service needs are met.
• Support contract renewals and negotiations - work with internal clients and suppliers to finalize clear statements of work and service level agreements.
• Operate initially as an individual contributor with potential to manage a small team

You have:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of work experience in vendor management with experience running scaled outsourced operations.
• Program management skills, from strategy and design through to execution and measurement of large-scale programs.

We prefer:

• Experience managing complex programs with multiple partners and teams; PMP or CCMP certification (or similar).
• Consulting skills; ability to assess problems from multiple angles, understand root cause analysis and develop solutions.
• Experience with programs that require you to make progress and remove roadblocks without direct authority.
• Comfortable operating in a scaling startup.
• Experience communicating with all levels of an organization, internally and externally with suppliers.

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The expected base salary range for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-related factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and skill level. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary range for your preferred location, during the hiring process. 

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