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# Indirect Procurement Category Manager | 間接購買カテゴリマネージャ at Waymo

- **Company:** Waymo
- **Location:** Tokyo, Japan
- **Posted:** 2026-11-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs?gh_jid=8314165

## Job description

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Waymo Procurement team efficiently procure indirect goods and services, build supplier relationships, and support outsourcing excellence & partner enablement to achieve Waymo's growth objectives.

You will:

- Act as the primary point of contact (POC) and subject matter expert for localized indirect categories—including marketing, policy, safety, and facilities—as well as construction, security, network, and equipment procurement (chargers, switchgear, automotive repair) to meet pressing demand schedules across our scaling operations.
- In partnership with stakeholders, develop multi-year category strategies that maximize value creation and support broad corporate services for Waymo.
- Lead the end-to-end RFX process, build relationships with strategic suppliers, and oversee complex, Waymo-wide supplier relations, developing solutions to new problems and anticipating future trends.
- Negotiate and draft agreements that minimize financial and business risk exposure, provide optimal terms and conditions, and enforce supplier accountability across diverse spend categories.
- Solve impactful multi-dimensional issues by implementing new processes, systems, or policies that address Waymo’s indirect procurement needs, while analyzing data to determine the final change in total cost of ownership.
- Develop new suppliers to support Waymo growth in the Asia Pacific region, including sourcing, bidding, negotiating, and closing contracts (requires travel to countries within this region).

You have:

- At least 10 years of procurement experience, including 7+ years focusing on broad indirect categories (facilities, marketing, safety, policy) and physical security/construction services spend areas.
- Comprehensive sourcing skills including: identifying sourcing opportunities, performing spend analysis, developing sourcing strategies, managing projects, developing RFX documents, negotiating, and managing contracts and compliance.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to deal effectively with diverse internal business contacts (e.g., marketing, operations, policy teams) and external partners.
- Ability to perform make versus buy outsourcing analyses and to develop complex total cost of ownership models.
- Ability to influence others and act as a cross-functional change agent within the team and the broader company.
- High personal integrity and ethics.

We prefer:

- Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Supply Chain, or related field; or equivalent education and work experience.

Waymo 調達チームは、間接資材やサービスの効率的な調達、サプライヤーとの関係構築、質の高いアウトソーシングとパートナーのイネーブルメントの推進をとおして、Waymo の成長目標達成に貢献します。

業務内容:

- マーケティング、ポリシー、安全性、施設などの現地の間接資材分野に加え、建設、セキュリティ、ネットワーク、機器調達（充電器、開閉装置、自動車修理）に関する主要な窓口担当者（POC）および専門家として、事業拡大に伴う差し迫った需要スケジュールに対応する。
- 関係者と連携して、価値創造を最大化し、Waymo の幅広いコーポレート サービスをサポートする複数年のカテゴリ戦略を策定する。
- エンドツーエンドの RFX プロセス策定の主導、戦略的サプライヤーとの関係構築、Waymo 全体の複雑なサプライヤー関係の統括、新しい問題に対する解決策の考案、将来のトレンド予測を行う。
- 財務上およびビジネス上のリスクの影響を最小限に抑え、最適な利用規約を提供し、多様な支出カテゴリにわたってサプライヤーの責任を確実に履行させる契約の交渉と作成を行う。
- Waymo の間接資材調達ニーズに対応する新しいプロセス、システム、ポリシーを導入するとともに、データを分析して総所有コストの最終的な変化を判断することで、影響の大きい多面的な問題を解決する。
- アジア太平洋地域での Waymo の成長をサポートする新しいサプライヤーを開拓する。これには、調達、入札、交渉、契約の締結が含まれる（この地域内の国への出張が必要）。

必須条件:

- 10 年以上の調達経験。そのうち 7 年以上は、幅広い間接資材カテゴリ（施設、マーケティング、安全、ポリシー）と物理的なセキュリティ / 建設サービスの支出分野に重点を置いていること。
- 調達機会の特定、支出分析の実施、調達戦略の策定、プロジェクト管理、RFX ドキュメントの作成、交渉、契約とコンプライアンスの管理など、調達に関する包括的なスキル。
- 多様な社内のビジネス担当者（マーケティング、オペレーション、ポリシーチームなど）や外部パートナーと効果的にやり取りするための優れた対人スキル。
- 内製か外注かのアウトソーシング分析を実施し、複雑な総所有コストモデルを構築する能力。
- チーム内および会社全体で、他者に影響を与え、部門横断的な変革推進者として行動する能力。
- 高い個人的な誠実さと倫理観。

歓迎条件:

- 経営学、サプライ チェーン、または関連分野の学士号を取得していること（同等の教育と実務経験でも可）。

## About Waymo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company that develops and operates the Waymo Driver, a self-driving system used for ride-hailing and trucking, with a mission to be the world’s most trusted driver.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google)
- **Headquarters**: Mountain View, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2009 (as the Google self-driving car project); became an independent company under Alphabet in 2016
- **Founders**: The project was initiated by Sebastian Thrun (Google X), with key early contributions from Anthony Levandowski and others. Current leadership is Co-CEOs Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov, and Chief Safety Officer Mauricio Peña.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Autonomous vehicles, self-driving technology, ride-hailing, autonomous trucking, mobility-as-a-service
- **Target customers**: B2C (riders via Waymo One), B2B (fleet operators, logistics companies, and partners), and enterprise (autonomous trucking and delivery)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To be the world’s most trusted driver.” Waymo aims to save lives, drive inclusive mobility, and improve the state of the planet by making transportation safer, more accessible, and sustainable.

## Products & Services
- **Waymo One**: The world’s first commercial autonomous ride-hailing service. Offers fully driverless rides to the public in Metro Phoenix, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The fleet is now all-electric (Jaguar I-PACE).
- **Waymo Via**: Autonomous trucking and logistics service for freight movement, operating with partners to move goods on highways.
- **Waymo Driver**: The company’s core autonomous driving system (software + hardware stack). It is designed to be integrated into various vehicle platforms for ride-hailing, trucking, and delivery.
- **Waymo Open Dataset**: A publicly available dataset of autonomous driving sensor data, provided to researchers to accelerate breakthroughs in the field.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (as a private subsidiary of Alphabet). Alphabet’s market cap is ~$2 trillion (as of mid-2025). Waymo is considered Alphabet’s most valuable “Other Bet.”
- **Key Metric**: Over 20 million rider-only (fully autonomous) rides served as of early 2025. 94% fewer serious injury crashes compared to human drivers over the same distance in operating cities.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Alphabet Inc. (parent company). Partners include Jaguar Land Rover (vehicle supply), Daimler Trucks (trucking), and various fleet operators and delivery services.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid geographic expansion (largest fully autonomous service area in the world at 180 sq miles in Phoenix); transition to an all-electric fleet; expansion into Los Angeles and San Francisco; growing public trust (93% rider satisfaction rate); continuous hiring across engineering, operations, and AI.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & scale**: Waymo is the only company operating a fully autonomous, commercial, paid ride-hailing service across multiple major US cities, with millions of real-world miles driven without a human safety driver.
- **Deep Alphabet backing**: Access to vast resources, AI talent (DeepMind/Google Brain), and infrastructure (Google Maps, Cloud, AI chips).
- **Safety track record**: Publicly released data showing a 82-94% reduction in injury-causing crashes compared to human drivers, building regulatory and public trust.
- **Full-stack approach**: In-house development of hardware (LIDAR, cameras, radar), software (perception, planning, simulation), and operations (fleet management, rider experience).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling safely**: Expanding service areas (adding more cities and suburbs) while maintaining a strong safety record.
- **All-electric fleet**: Transitioning the entire Waymo One fleet to zero-emission vehicles (Jaguar I-PACE) to align with sustainability goals.
- **Trucking & logistics**: Growing Waymo Via to capture the massive autonomous trucking market, partnering with OEMs and shippers.
- **AI & simulation**: Using advanced AI (including large models and generative AI) to improve the Waymo Driver’s decision-making and simulation-based validation.
- **Accessibility & inclusive mobility**: Designing for riders with disabilities, older adults, and underserved communities to ensure transportation is available to all.

## Why Work Here
- **Impact**: Work on technology that directly saves lives (1.4M traffic deaths globally each year) and reshapes the future of transportation.
- **Culture**: Waymo describes itself as a place for “ambitious thinkers and relentless problem solvers” with a deep respect for getting every detail right. Values include safety, innovation, and responsibility.
- **Teams**: Opportunities across Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, AI Foundations, Product & Design, Operations & Supply Chain, Safety, Policy, and General & Administrative roles.
- **Internships**: Strong early-career program with internships for Bachelors, Masters, MBA, and PhD candidates, often leading to full-time offers.
- **Hiring process**: Transparent and structured. Includes an initial recruiter screen, 1-2 phone/video interviews, and a virtual onsite (up to 5 interviews). Emphasizes problem-solving, collaboration, and real-time thinking. AI tools are not permitted during technical assessments to ensure fair evaluation.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: The careers page lists both on-site and remote roles, with most engineering and operations roles based in Mountain View, San Francisco, or other US locations.
- **Benefits**: Top-notch benefits, unique learning opportunities, thoughtful community engagement, and meaningful gatherings. Specific perks are not detailed publicly but are described as comprehensive.

## Sources
1. [Waymo.com](https://waymo.com/) – Official company website (mission, history, safety data)
2. [Waymo About Page](https://waymo.com/about/) – Company history, leadership, and milestones
3. [Waymo Careers Page](https://careers.withwaymo.com/) – Culture, teams, hiring process, benefits
4. [Waymo Open Roles](https://careers.withwaymo.com/jobs/search) – Current job listings and departments
5. [Waymo How We Hire](https://careers.withwaymo.com/how-we-hire) – Interview process, tips, and accessibility

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