Technology Manager - Supply Chain Transformation

Lensa; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 125,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the automotive industry is seeking a Technology Manager to join their Supply Chain Transformation team in Plano. This role requires strong technical leadership and communication skills to drive initiatives that enhance the vehicle supply chain. Candidates should have substantial experience in IT, project management, and emerging technologies, along with a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. Join Toyota's mission to innovate and transform the future of mobility.

Benefits

401(k) Savings Plan with company match

Professional growth and development programs

Comprehensive health care plans

Paid holidays and time off

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT experience.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps, Cloud Computing, and Agile frameworks.
• Experience with complex IT applications and managing technology staff.

Responsibilities

• Drive product delivery for vehicle supply chain transformation projects.
• Establish clear priorities and develop implementation plans.
• Lead teams through technical challenges and deliver high-quality products.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder Engagement

Vendor Management

Agile Methodology

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Business Administration with IT focus

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

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Technology Manager - Supply Chain Transformation

Technology Manager - Supply Chain Transformation

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Overview

Who we are

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.

To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this position at this time.

Technology Manager

Toyota’s OneTech Digital Supply Chain & Fulfillment Transformation team is looking for a passionate, dedicated, and highly motivated Technology Manager - Supply Chain Transformat who is an experienced technology leader, who will drive the Product delivery of Vehicle supply chain transformation initiative & projects to enable the North American Vehicle Supply Chain North Star Vision.

This member should demonstrate strong technology leadership, relationship building, and influential communication, be well organized, create Business case, product road maps and oversee all stages of product execution including requirements, design and development ensuring quality deliverables. Monitor and evaluate product progress at each stage of the process, liaising with the business product team and end-users.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Supply Chain & Fulfillment Transformation, the person in this role will support the Vehicle Supply Chain department's objective, accelerate the transformation and adoption of modern & emerging technologies/platforms.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Technical Leadership: Understand changing business needs and industry best practices. Recommend technology strategies and solutions for the future based on technical and economic feasibility. Understand implications of the business needs and direction, and how that impacts solutions across the portfolio.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate and build relationships with users, customers, and management team on future vision, translate vision into quick POVs, solutions, and technical roadmap. Serve as a liaison between Business and OneTech to influence direction and achieve buy in to solutions.
• Delivery Management: Establish clear priorities, develop robust implementation plans, resource performance, oversee execution of plans, and contribute to team performance against defined objectives, commitments and standards.
• Pragmatic Solutions: Partner with Enterprise Architecture team to review and analyze major design decisions, ultimately providing recommendations and seeking buy in. Influence other groups within OneTech on technology decisions.
• Vendor Management: Technical oversight of vendor teams building solutions. Provide guidance on technical solutions, confirm design conformance and viability, perform detailed analysis of vendor resource plans, development schedule, and associated effort & cost estimates. Ensure technical deliverables are in adherence to TMNA Enterprise standards and best practices. Maintain awareness of improvements and lessons learned across portfolio projects and solutions. Ensure kaizen and lessons learned are applied across portfolio, helping suppliers improve.
• Solution Simplification: Provide leadership to suppliers in systems analysis and design of complex system architectures and multi-platform business processes. Lead regular reviews of the portfolio(s) to identify opportunities for improvement in the areas of Stability, Performance and Complexity Reduction. Identify and report on metrics that quantify the benefit of these improvements.
• Agile Development: Apply disciplined software development processes, utilizing agile framework (scrum) and leading-edge technologies to engineer and implement automated solutions to business problems. Take the lead on influencing changes and improvements to the processes.
• Fiscal Discipline: Gain comprehensive understanding of Total Cost of Ownerships (TCO) for existing applications and perform analysis for all technical design decision to fully understand TCO implications, with goal of reducing ongoing product maintenance/core technology costs.
  
  

What You Bring

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business Administration with IT focus, Management Information Systems, related discipline, or more than 10 years of equivalent work experience
• Deep knowledge of demonstrated progressive, broad-based IT experience successfully implementing complex IT applications and /or developing effective solutions to diverse and complex business challenges and opportunities.
• Demonstrated supervisory experience leading end to end Software development and support of business-critical Products/Systems, managing technology solutions, technical staff and vendors.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create and present concepts, influence and persuade the business, and make recommendations to management.
• Experience implementing and/or supporting business-critical systems where volume performance and uptime reliability are critical.
• Knowledge and experience with progressive technology solutions including DevOps, Cloud Computing, Intelligent Automation (RPA, ML, NLP, etc.), Micro-Services, ERP, Big Data, Data Science, and Predictive Analytics.
• Knowledge in managing across a mixed, complex portfolio and technology stack, residing across multiple technology platforms.
• Experience with modern web technologies and frameworks (e.g., React, Node). Proficiency in designing solutions using AWS architecture and services.
• Proficiency in relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle) and NoSQL databases like MongoDB.
• Familiarity with data engineering and ETL processes in Python, as well as AWS services (e.g., S3, Lambda, SageMaker).
• Proven ability to lead teams through technical challenges, complex problem-solving, and deliver high-quality products.
• Experience working with both functional and non-functional requirements, including security, performance, and scalability.
  
  

Added bonus if you have

• Demonstrated experience in large scale transformation projects.
• Knowledge and experience with Automotive/Parts Supply Chain .
• AWS/other technical certifications.
  
  

What We’ll Bring

During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities. A few highlights include:

• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement
• Vehicle purchase & lease programs
• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family
• Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools and more
• Flexible spending accounts
  
  

Belonging at Toyota

Our success begins and ends with our people. We embrace all perspectives and value unique human experiences. Respect for all is our North Star. Toyota is proud to have 10+ different Business Partnering Groups across 100 different North American chapter locations that support team members’ efforts to dream, do and grow without questioning that they belong.

Applicants for our positions are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, religion, military or veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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