Requirements
- Educational Foundation: Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Finance, or equivalent practical experience
- Planning Expertise: 5+ years of experience driving outcomes in capacity planning, commercial operations, S&OP, or strategic program management
- Cross-Organizational Leadership: Proven ability to drive collaborations with strategic partnership teams and proactively manage dependencies during high-growth phases
- Mastery of Communication: Exemplary presentation skills with the confidence to establish the \"source of truth\" and influence senior decision-makers
- Tooling Fluency: Direct expertise building and maintaining capacity models and roadmaps within scaled enterprise platforms like Anaplan
- Technical Literacy: Proficiency with data querying (SQL) and foundational quantitative modeling to effectively guide technical partners and validate data
- (Desirable) Advanced Education: MBA or Master's degree in Business Administration, Operations, or a related field
- (Desirable) Economic Impact: Proven success managing P&L impacts and unit economics within a high-growth environment
- (Desirable) AV Industry Experience: Experience scaling \"human-in-the-loop\" oversight operations for autonomous vehicles while managing complex dependencies
- (Desirable) Vendor Management: Exposure to BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) practices and aligning external execution with internal capacity plans
- (Desirable) Resilience Planning: Experience modeling resource requirements for business continuity and large-scale disruption contingency planning
- (Desirable) Platform Migration: Success in migrating complex legacy models out of standard spreadsheets and into integrated enterprise platforms
What the job involves
- This role follows a hybrid work schedule and reports to the Head of Global Operations Planning
- Design Scalable Processes: Build and own the global framework for Global Operations Center capacity planning, acting as the primary program manager for resource scaling
- Navigate Operational Ambiguity: Apply strong business judgment to ensure resource strategies accurately reflect commercial targets (cars, trips, revenue) and real-world operational constraints
- Drive Vendor Accountability: Oversee execution across large, cross-organization vendor partnerships, prioritizing structural efficiency models and strict SLA compliance
- Shape Executive Narratives: Provide critical input to decision-makers by translating complex capacity models into decisive narratives with clear P&L implications
- Mitigate Operational Risk: Identify risks and advocate for structural fixes and \"principled spending\" rather than relying on temporary resource additions
- Validate Technical Models: Periodically perform technical deep-dives to ensure mathematical and capacity models remain transparent, verifiable, and free of \"black box\" assumptions
- Architect Advanced Models: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data Science to deploy models within centralized planning ecosystems (like Anaplan) to meet evolving requirements
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