Global Logistics Manager

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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!

The role

The Global Logistics Manager is a critical leadership role responsible for defining, executing, and optimizing Wayve’s global logistics, customs, transportation, and potentially warehousing operations across the UK, US, Asia Pacific, and EU.

This role owns end-to-end inbound and outbound logistics, customs compliance, tariffs and duties, transportation strategy, and logistics partner management. The ideal candidate is a strategic, hands-on leader who can operate in a fast-moving, hardware-driven environment, balancing speed, cost, compliance, and risk while enabling critical program milestones.

This role will have help setting up the logistics roadmap as Wayve continue to scale up internationally

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a global logistics strategy aligned with company objectives, hardware programs, and regional growth plans
• Own relationships with global and regional freight forwarders, carriers, and customs brokers and lead rate negotiations, contract renewals, and capacity planning across regions
• Own and ensure full compliance with domestic and international trade regulations, customs rules, tariff/duty, and safety standards
• Own and implement logistics-related processes and tools and ensure they are documented, standardized, and scalable
• Ensure seamless integration between logistics systems and purchasing, warehouse, finance, and other stakeholders workflows

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Logistics Manager at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.

Essential

• Prefer to have managerial experience
• Experience to set up company logistics strategy and team from scratch
• Strong understanding of carrier/forwarder shipping rate and cost breakdown
• Deep knowledge of international custom/duty/tariff regulation and policy

Desirable

• Working at both a startup and established company
• Automotive background
• 15+ years of experience

This is a full-time role based in our office in London. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.

Wayve is committed to creating an inclusive interview experience. If you require any accommodations or adjustments to participate fully in our interview process, please let us know

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.

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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.