Lead initial responses to Woven City crises, coordinate the Emergency Response Team, improve preparedness processes, and enforce confidential-data access controls and audits.
About this role
Woven by Toyota develops autonomous driving, a software platform for software-defined vehicles and the Woven City test course. Its Global Procurement team manages supplier relationships, the supply chain and procurement of goods and services from supplier selection to contracts, and also drives spend analysis, process optimisation and system improvement. The Procurement Manager brings insights from stakeholders across global sites into more agile processes and better supplier strategy.
Responsibilities include building a roadmap with the business team, leading the RFP lifecycle from requirements through evaluation, negotiation, award and supplier onboarding, solving procurement problems, leading complex projects end to end, automating the procurement cycle with RPA and AI, tracking spend with Power BI, strengthening compliance to reduce legal, financial and operational risk, and acting as liaison to finance and legal.
Applicants are expected to have a bachelor's degree, five or more years in procurement, strategic sourcing or supply chain, cross-department project leadership, ERP familiarity (Oracle, SAP), excellent English and Japanese communication and knowledge of Japanese law. RPA and BI experience are preferred.
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