Business Consultant for Woven Inventor Garage Laboratory

About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.

Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.

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TEAM
Toyota is redefining what it means to move. We're challenging the current state of mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information and energy. Centered around three core concepts - A Living Laboratory™, Human-Centered, and Ever Evolving City™ - Woven City serves as a test course for mobility to fulfill our purpose of well-being for all.

We do this by bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility to co-create, develop and refine innovative products and services. This cross-section of social infrastructure, mobility, and people provides a unique opportunity for inventors, residents and visitors to interact seamlessly with new technologies throughout daily life in an environment that emulates a real city.

For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Woven City and the Inventor Lab aim to provide the environments to accelerate services that are important for users, the city and society with mobility expansion. The team will support and consult with inventors to enrich their experiment in Woven City through the life cycle of Plan, Build and Test for their innovation. The team will understand inventor’s goals and help inventor success through arranging support resources and programs in Inventor Laboratory. We’re looking for a Business Consultant who has rich experiences in consultant business or solution consultant with facing customers.

You will report to the lead of the function and the workplace is hybrid (office/remote).

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Responsible for Inventor success with inventor Lab and Woven City
• Play the role of consultant for inventors in Woven City and wide to help inventor success
• Clarify Inventor’s needs through communication with the Inventors and coordinate Inventor Lab’s entire resources and other teams’ resources to support the solution for inventor’s goals
• Set a course of consultant role to define requirements of the Inventor Laboratory business based on customer needs including unmet needs and collaborate with product teams to strengthen the competitive solutions
• Take ownership of building a team to face customer and lead collaboration with other team

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field
• 7+ years to take the lead of consultants or business development for multiple industries
• Communicate with cross-functional internal stakeholders to move forward with initiatives and pace making of the initiatives
• Passion to move forward in a situation without a definitive answer
• Communication skills with customers and multiple stakeholders
• Leadership to lead the entire team to achieve team goals
• Proficiency in Native level Japanese/ in Business level English
• Location will be in Susono or commute to Susono

NICE TO HAVES:
• 5+ years of account management experience including arranging with technical side
• Startup or new business development experience
• Knowledge of data or AI utilization and business
• Experience working within a cloud environment (e.g. GCP, AWS)
• Strong negotiation and consensus building skills
• Experience in catching up on knowledge in areas outside of own expertise

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Important Points
・All interviews will be arranged via Google Meet, unless otherwise stated.
・The same job descriptions are available in both English and Japanese; therefore, we kindly ask that you apply to only one version.
・We kindly request that you submit your resume in English, if possible. However, Japanese resumes are also acceptable. Please note that, depending on the English proficiency requirements of the role, we may request an English version of your resume later in the process.

WHAT WE OFFER
・Competitive Salary - Based on experience
・Work Hours - Flexible working time
・Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)
・Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)
・Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company
・Japanese Social Insurance - Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance
・Housing Allowance
・Retirement Benefits
・Rental Cars Support
・In-house Training Program (software study/language study)

Our Commitment
・We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
・Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.