Staff Supplier Program Manager, PMO

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Summary:

The Staff Supplier Program Manager is responsible for developing and leading the relationship between Torc and key suppliers. This role ensures successful delivery of components across the Torc supply base, working with partners in external companies to ensure Torc delivers on its goals. This role requires frequent engagement with stakeholders in various departments to align on the work and resolve or drive resolution of issues and risks. The role requires a high degree of skilled stakeholder engagement across all disciplines and levels of the organization, including frequent communication with leaders up to and including the C-suite. This role requires high judgement, capable of making independent decisions with little direction. This person should be a self-starter, curious, creative, solution-oriented, unafraid of ambiguity and able to work collaboratively across all levels of the organization to solve problems and drive clarity, learn and adapt from failure, and be motivated to tackle new topics and challenges.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop and lead mechanisms that drive alignment and coordination between Torc and suppliers.
• Lead, guide, and hold suppliers accountable, leveraging OKRs and integration points aligned between the two organizations.
• Serve as a central driver of the relationship between Torc and suppliers, developing appropriate incentives to meeting business goals and program targets.
• Leads cross-functional teams to scope complex initiatives, across engineering, regulatory, operations, and safety.
• Define goals and objectives that drive cross-functional teams to deliver on complex, highly-coupled initiatives; drive the organization to successfully achieve program objectives and measures of success.
• Clearly articulate status of program assignments through frequent updates, dashboards, and metrics.
• Identify, map, track, and drive dependencies and risks to resolution; identify and drive process improvements for process issues impacting the program(s).
• Analyzes product milestones and ensures cross-functional work is planned …