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Role Description

The Team’s mission is to provide seamless, customer-focused services to the entire Motional Organization, and you will be a cornerstone of this team with primary focus on indirect procurement commodities that support Motional’s Engineering and SG&A teams.

• Manage strategic sourcing process and negotiate contracts at a sophisticated level.
• Effectively collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (internal and external) to develop sourcing strategies that align with budget, focus on reducing cost and mitigating risk.
• Align on sourcing initiatives with several teams including but not limited to Legal and Finance, Engineering, IT, Cybersecurity, and Executive leadership.
• Develop and manage sourcing events (RFx’s) and vendor selection processes.
• Manage supplier management programs with defined SLAs and KPIs for key suppliers and measure the appropriate criteria, such as:
  • Delivery of business results
  • Cost reduction
  • Quality and timeliness of delivery
• Understand interrelationships between contracts and terms while applying creativity and sound business reasoning to interpret application of contract to business needs.
• Support supplier onboarding and purchase requisition programs for internal stakeholders to ensure compliance with Procure to Pay policies and procedures.
• Communicate, manage, and drive compliance to category strategies.
• Conduct research, perform benchmarking, and gather market analysis for assigned categories.
• Establish preferred suppliers for assigned categories.
• Ability to work flexible hours and support a global workforce.

Qualifications

• 4 - 7 years of strategic sourcing experience within complex design and software development and manufacturing environments (consumer products, automotive, etc.).
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Finance, Business Administration, IT, or similar area of study. MBA, JD and CPSM, CPIM or C.P.M. certifications highly desirable.
• Experience in working with a broad cross-functional team in an extremely dynamic environment.
• Experience working in a global environment with domestic & international suppliers.
• Can do attitude, can roll up the sleeves and dive into the details quickly.
• Data-driven approach to tracking, monitoring and reporting on defined spend management objectives to ensure we are executing on defined goals.
• Analytical skills: spend analysis, cost modeling, and data interpretation.
• Communication & collaboration: verbal, written, and presentation skills for engaging internal stakeholders and suppliers included Executive Leadership.

Requirements

• Bonus points (not required):
  • Automotive experience, especially in self-driving cars.
  • Blue chip procurement experience (Apple, Google, Facebook, GE).
  • Experience negotiating and managing Engineering service providers and enterprise software licenses.
  • Certification in supply chain, scrum, agile, six sigma.
  • Experience using Zip Procurement solution.

Benefits

• Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to:
  • Medical, dental, vision
  • 401k with a company match
  • Health saving accounts
  • Life insurance
  • Pet insurance
  • And more

Salary Range

$109,000 — $142,000 USD

Company Description

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

• Our journey is always people first.
• We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect.
• Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.
• We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation.
• We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization.
• Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet.
• Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives.
• Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia.