Toyota Organizational Structure

About the company

Toyota Motor Corporation is the listed parent of the world's largest carmaker by volume, trading as 7203 in Tokyo and Nagoya and as TM in New York. It reported roughly ¥48.0 trillion of revenue for the year ended 31 March 2025 and employed about 384,000 people on a consolidated basis, of whom around 71,500 sit inside the parent company itself.

The chart on this page is Toyota Motor Corporation, not the Toyota Group. Denso, Toyota Industries, Aisin, Subaru, Mazda, Suzuki and Isuzu are equity affiliates held through cross-shareholdings rather than consolidated subsidiaries, and their executives are deliberately left out — including them would draw an industrial keiretsu and label it a company.

Toyota is worth studying structurally because it is one of the very few companies of its size where the shape of the top is itself a published decision. In February 2026 the company announced that the chief executive's job would be split between an inward-facing President and an outward-facing Vice Chairman with the newly invented title of Chief Industry Officer, and explained the change by saying that work should revolve around roles rather than titles.

Toyota Motor Corporation organizational chart

Toyota Motor Corporation's reporting structure as of 2026-08. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom — or open it in QueryChart and edit it as your own.

A chairman above a divided presidency, over officers who are also subsidiary CEOs

The root of this tree is the Chairman, not the CEO. Akio Toyoda holds the chairmanship as a Representative Director — a Japanese legal status carrying authority to bind the company — and chairs both the board and the general shareholders' meeting. Kenta Kon, as President and Chief Executive Officer, reports to that board. Placing Kon at the root would invert a real relationship, so the chart puts Chairman above President and hangs the outside directors off the Chairman for layout, where the line means board membership rather than a reporting relationship.

Since 1 April 2026 the presidency has been divided. Kon holds the internal mandate, which Toyota described as driving initiatives to enhance earning power, while his predecessor Koji Sato moved up to Vice Chairman and Chief Industry Officer to carry the external one — chairing the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association and working through Keidanren. Both report into the board rather than to each other, which is why the second level of this chart has two boxes where most carmakers have one.

Below the President sits a deliberately thin company-wide layer of four chief officers: technology, finance, production and branding. Only the Chief Technology Officer and the Chief Financial Officer also hold board seats, so the officer layer and the board are not the same set of people. Running alongside those functions are the regional Groups — North America, China and Japan — plus the European operating company. Each regional chief is normally also the chief executive of the corresponding legal entity, so the same person occupies a headquarters post and a subsidiary post at once, and Toyota Motor North America is the one place where that structure is visible two levels deep.

Two parts of the real organisation are deliberately absent. Product development runs through the in-house company system introduced in 2016 and refined in 2017, which groups engineering by vehicle segment rather than by function; Toyota does not publish that layer's leadership consistently in English, so its presidents are omitted rather than guessed at. And advanced software, automated driving and long-horizon research have been pushed out into wholly owned subsidiaries — Woven by Toyota and Toyota Research Institute — whose chief executives appear here on inferred lines, because no public source states where they report.

Key leadership roles

1. Akio Toyoda

   Representative Director and Chairman of the Board — Chairs the board and the general shareholders' meeting; the representative-director status means the chairmanship carries legal authority, not ceremony.

2. Kenta Kon

   Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer — Took the presidency on 1 April 2026 with an explicitly inward mandate, and joined the board as a representative director at the June 2026 AGM.

3. Koji Sato

   Vice Chairman, Chief Industry Officer — President and CEO until March 2026; the vice-chairmanship carries the outward half of the old job, including industry-association work.

4. Hiroki Nakajima

   Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer — One of only two chief officers who also hold a board seat. The reporting line to the President is the conventional reading of Toyota's officer table, not a stated one.

5. Yoichi Miyazaki

   Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer — Corroborated by two encyclopedia sources rather than a primary Toyota page; sources disagree on whether the CFO tenure is continuous from 2023 or was re-conferred in 2026.

6. Takefumi Shiga

   Operating Officer, Chief Production Officer — Also Chief Officer of the Monozukuri Engineering Group, which is where manufacturing engineering sits.

7. Simon Humphries

   Operating Officer, Chief Branding Officer — Brand and design are a company-wide chief-officer function at Toyota rather than a marketing sub-department.

8. Tetsuo Ogawa

   Chief Officer, North America Region; President and CEO, Toyota Motor North America — The clearest example of Toyota's dual-hatting: one person holds the internal group post and the subsidiary chief-executive post.

9. Mark Templin

   Chief Operating Officer, Toyota Motor North America — Reports to Tetsuo Ogawa. This line is accurate but corroborated in our research only by an encyclopedia entry, because Toyota's own leadership pages did not serve automated requests.

10. Tatsuro Ueda

    Chief Officer, China Region; CEO, Toyota Motor (China) Investment — China is run as its own region with the same dual-hatted arrangement as North America.

11. Shigeki Tomoyama

    Executive Fellow; Chief Officer, Japan Business Group — Holds a Fellow title alongside a line post; the reporting line to the President is inferred rather than published.

12. Gill Pratt

    Chief Scientist; CEO, Toyota Research Institute — Runs a wholly owned research subsidiary; the line to the President is inferred, as Toyota does not publish where subsidiary chief executives report.

13. Hajime Kumabe

    Chief Executive Officer, Woven by Toyota — Leads the software and automated-driving subsidiary. Reporting line inferred on the same basis as Toyota Research Institute.

14. George Olcott

    Outside Director; Chair of the Audit and Supervisory Committee — Chairs the committee that folds statutory audit into the board itself. He is a board peer of the Chairman, not a subordinate.

How this structure supports the business

Splitting the top across three people lets Toyota staff three genuinely different jobs at once. Industry diplomacy in Japan is a full-time role with its own calendar; so is the quarterly pressure on earning power; so is the long-horizon direction a family-associated chairman is expected to hold. A single chief executive covering all three is the arrangement most carmakers run, and it is the one Toyota decided it had outgrown.

Dual-hatting the regional chiefs removes an entire translation layer between headquarters and the market. Emissions rules, dealer networks and what a customer expects a pickup truck to be are all local questions, and when the person answering them in Toyota City is the same person answering them in Plano, there is no internal negotiation between a region group and a regional subsidiary that could pull them apart.

Keeping software, automated driving and research in separate legal entities lets those units hire, pay and fail on software-industry terms without disturbing a manufacturing organisation built on standardised work. It is the same logic that put the segment companies outside the functional chart: the parent keeps the standards, and the units keep their own cadence.

Advantages and disadvantages

A chairman, an outward-facing vice chairman and an inward-facing president let Toyota carry industry diplomacy, long-term direction and earnings pressure simultaneously.

Nothing in the structure says who decides what. An observer cannot tell from the chart whether strategy is set by the Chairman, the Vice Chairman or the CEO, and a disagreement among the three has no tiebreaker below the board.

A four-person chief-officer layer over segment-based in-house companies keeps engineering, cost and brand standards company-wide while each vehicle segment develops at its own cadence.

The segment companies answer to both their own product economics and the functional chief officers, which slows anything crossing segments — and is why this layer has been restructured every few years since 2013.

Making regional group heads the chief executives of the regional legal entities gives each major market one accountable person and no headquarters intermediary.

It concentrates unusual discretion in a handful of regional chiefs, and a regional chief executive change is automatically a headquarters officer change as well.

Wholly owned software and research subsidiaries can recruit and operate on terms the manufacturing organisation cannot offer.

Their reporting relationship to the parent's executives is not publicly specified, and the same separation makes folding their output back into vehicle programmes structurally hard.

Interesting facts

• Toyota divided the chief executive's job on 1 April 2026: the President carries the internal mandate for earning power and the Vice Chairman carries the external one, including chairing the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association.
• The chairmanship is not ceremonial. It is held as a Representative Director, a Japanese status carrying authority to bind the company, and it chairs the general shareholders' meeting — so real authority sits above the chief executive rather than beside him.
• Toyota now operates as a Company with an Audit and Supervisory Committee, which puts statutory auditors on the board as directors: an outside director chairs the committee and one member serves full-time.
• A Fellow track — Senior Fellow, Executive Fellow, Chief Scientist — runs parallel to the officer ladder, letting several people carry company-wide weight without holding a line-management post.
• Regional leadership is dual-hatted by design: the head of an internal region group is usually also the chief executive of the corresponding legal entity, so the group and the subsidiary cannot drift apart.
• Software, automated driving and long-horizon research sit in wholly owned subsidiaries rather than internal divisions, which keeps them off the parent's functional chart entirely.

Frequently asked questions

Who is the CEO of Toyota, and why is the chairman above them on this chart?

Kenta Kon has been President and Chief Executive Officer since 1 April 2026. Akio Toyoda sits above him because he chairs the board of directors that the President reports to, and holds the chairmanship as a Representative Director rather than as an honorary title. Toyota does not itself publish an org chart asserting that ordering, so placing Chairman above President is an editorial reading of the governance, not a quoted line.

Why does Toyota have both a President and a Vice Chairman?

Because it split the chief executive's job in two in April 2026. Kenta Kon took the internal half — driving initiatives to enhance earning power — and Koji Sato, the previous President, moved up to Vice Chairman with the invented title Chief Industry Officer to carry the external half, including the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association and Keidanren. Both sit under the board rather than under each other.

What type of organizational structure does Toyota use?

A hybrid. A thin company-wide functional layer of chief officers for technology, finance, production and branding sits over in-house companies grouped by vehicle segment, with regional Groups running alongside for North America, China, Japan and Europe. The segment companies are the part Toyota does not publish leadership for in English, so this chart shows the functional and regional axes only.

Does this chart include Denso, Aisin and the rest of the Toyota Group?

No. It shows Toyota Motor Corporation, the listed parent. Denso, Toyota Industries, Aisin, Subaru, Mazda, Suzuki and Isuzu are equity affiliates held through cross-shareholdings rather than consolidated subsidiaries, so their executives do not belong on an org chart of the parent company. Woven by Toyota and Toyota Research Institute are wholly owned and are included.

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