Global Supply Chain Manager

Wayve; City Of London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI technology company in London is seeking a Global Supplier Manager to build and negotiate with suppliers while scaling product development. The successful candidate will manage supplier relationships, drive cost management, and collaborate closely with engineering teams. This role offers attractive compensation, equity options, and various benefits including flexible working hours and relocation support.

Benefits

Attractive compensation with salary and equity

Bespoke learning and development opportunities

Relocation support with visa sponsorship

Flexible working hours

Private onsite chef

In-house bar and social events

Qualifications

• Experience bringing newly developed products to scale through partner relationships.
• Ability to do cost accounting for products and negotiate improvements.
• Experience in collaborative development between internal teams and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with suppliers to negotiate terms and secure product availability.
• Establish supplier relationships and manage requirements with engineering.
• Drive cost management and identify manufacturing opportunities.

Skills

Product scaling experience

Cost accounting skills

Decision-making ability

Collaborative development experience

Strong communication skills

Agile program environment experience

Autonomous Vehicle experience

Knowledge of import/export operations

Job description

At Wayve we're committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives, and regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

About us

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.

In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!

Where you will have impact

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 favourable 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 these relationships and manage the requirements in collaboration with our engineering team. In addition, due to the nature of our hardware being an enabler platform for software development, build requirements and demand can be sporadic and therefore our supply chains have to be agile and adaptive to respond to short term requests and continual evolution of the design. Cost management of bill of material 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

• Experience bringing newly developed products, with experience on sensors and compute, 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
• 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!

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.

We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.

DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.

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