Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in material program management.
- 2 years of experience with manufacturing, supply chain management, or fulfillment planning and execution in a new product introduction (NPI) role.
- Experience in supply chain management (e.g., forecasting, fulfillment, reverse logistics).
- Experience bringing new products to market.
- Ability to work with diverse data sources to derive key insights.
- Excellent communication and people management skills and ability to work across multiple levels.
About the job
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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.
Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us - and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.
The Product Manufacturing and Build Management team is part of the Global Manufacturing Operations team. We're responsible for ensuring success of the manufacturing production for servers, machine learning, and networking equipment for Google's data centers.
As a Program Manager, you will be a collaborative and resourceful asset with a track record of supply chain operations management. You will work closely with contract manufacturers to ensure they are clear to build to enable on-time delivery for complex products. You will be an expert in material planning and fulfillment to optimize the manufacturing plan ensuring timely delivery.
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 readiness for mass production builds through collaboration with contract manufacturers, planning teams, and commodity managers.
- Ensure smooth product transitions. Be the primary material liaison with Planning, New Product Introduction and contract manufacturersfor product bring up and launch. Identify supply chain risks and mitigation steps to ensure material readiness from product goes into mass production and through end of life.
- Communicate status, risks, and influence change. Drive initiatives and process improvements to help the team to become more scalable.
- Develop processes to enable on-time delivery and mitigation across multiple Contract Manufacturers in supply and labor constrained environments.
- Manage projects from inception through completion. Ensure requirements are complete and scope is well defined with multiple cross-functional stakeholders.