Program Manager, Supply Chain, Networking Infrastructure Parts
Summary
Program Manager leading supply chain planning for data center networking infrastructure parts at Google — building supply/demand models, coordinating with procurement and deployment teams, and managing inventory, shortages, and mitigation across cross-functional stakeholders.
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.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
- Develop short and long term supply and demand models to minimize total costs and inventories while maintaining/improving service levels for data center networking infrastructure parts.
- Present Supply and Demand recommendations to leadership, drive timely decisions, and ensure clear and concise communication to all stakeholders in the supply chain.
- Work with partner teams in procurement, materials management to track supply commits and provide supply response to upstream deployment teams. Establish best methods (statistical models, processes, software tools) in creating supply forecasts and respective inventory targets.
- Handle supply shortages and drive necessary mitigation actions and prioritization, allocation decisions with procurement, GCM teams to minimize impact to Google's capacity delivery.
- Drive product success by keeping everyone accountable for metrics such as forecast accuracy, inventory, excess and obsolescence, material spend, Cost of Goods Sold and gross margins.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program or project management.
- Experience with supply/demand planning, material planning, data center infrastructure, and capital investment decision making.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or Master's degree in Business Process Management, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related disciplines.
- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Ability to collaborate and influence across multiple levels of an organization with experience leading cross-functional process improvements.
- Exceptional sense of accountability and ownership for end-to-end project lifecycle.