Group manager, Global Commodity Management, Memory
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a Technical or Engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in commodity management or supply chain management.
- 3 years of experience in team management and leadership.
- Experience with partnering and closing supply and pricing agreements.
- Experience with supply base and technologies for Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in a Technical, Engineering field or Business Administration.
- 10 years of experience in commodity management or supply chain management within the data center industry.
- Experience with developing commodity strategies.
- Knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing technology.
About the job
Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. As a Commodity Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global -- and growing -- infrastructure. The scale at which Google operates means that savings on just one piece of hardware can have a huge impact on Google's bottom line.In this role, you will lead a team developing commodity strategies and execute on them. You will lead cross-functional teams through the supplier selection process for new platforms/components. You will conduct business discussions and secure agreements with suppliers. You will maintain a level of industry expertise and supplier/market conditions, and manage supplier performance in cost, quality, delivery, and technology alignment. You will propose and implement supply chain improvements.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
- Lead a group of memory commodity managers and memory qualification program managers.
- Lead cross-functional teams to drive memory and flash technologies and components at memory suppliers.
- Maintain a level of industry and technology expertise as well as supplier and market conditions and understand semiconductor structures and be conversant with developing models.
- Develop sourcing strategies for memory and NAND flash and execute on them.
- Manage supplier relationships and performance in technology alignment, cost, quality, and delivery, negotiate agreements, and implement supply chain improvements.
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