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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or Operations, or equivalent practical experience
- 2 years of experience with supply/demand planning and accounting/finance.
- Experience across all phases of a product from prototype to mass production to end of life.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with rack, server, advanced cooling solution development.
- Experience leading or collaborating for product launch and process optimization.
- Experience leading cross-functional process improvements.
- Ability to shift between detailed analysis and big picture thinking, and customizing communications based on the audience.
- Ability to deliver data driven/fact based analysis for business proposal, supply chain design, and supply risk mitigation.
- Ability to collaborate and influence across multiple levels of an organization, and excellent investigative and communication/facilitation skills.
About The Job
A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. That's why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you'll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
Responsibilities
- Drive material and supply chain readiness for all NPI builds from concept phase to production handoff, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure a successful handoff for the infrastructure product group (rack, power module, and cooling solutions).
- Identify, communicate and manage supply chain risks and mitigation plans to ensure materials readiness for NPI builds as well as supply continuity into production. Be the primary materials liaison with ODM/contract manufacturer/suppliers, manage spend against project budgets, and manage large production risk buys and strategic buffers.
- Develop and document global supply chain map for each product, including suppliers, procurement model, lead time, shipment logistics, assembly/test/fulfillment model, and spares strategies.
- Update project schedules, communicate status, risks and influence change, and represent the NPI, supply chain organization in internal program meetings, driving initiatives and process improvements.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .
