Global Data Center Manufacturing Partner Manager
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in technical sourcing and supply chain management.
- Experience in people management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with supplier management in the compute, storage, networking or data center infrastructure space.
- Experience managing CM partners for Networking optics, PCBA, and systems including cost models.
- Experience with new product development environments (schedule, cost, urgency, etc)
- Experience working for a global contract manufacturer, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), or hyperscale company
- Excellent investigative skills with the ability to communicate internally and externally.
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.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
- Managie global teams and global agreement manufacturers (CM/JDM), working with technical engineering teams and commercial leadership teams to deliver new products with high quality, on-time, and at engaged costs.
- Led strategy development across machine learning, compute/storage, networking, consumer devices or similar space and have managed suppliers in New Product Introduction (NPI) and sustaining environments.
- Lead new business selection decisions and negotiating statements of work with suppliers.
- Develop category sourcing strategies across product verticals and define cost drivers, cost models and establish cost analysis.
- Understand the technical roadmap and industry trends that impact long-term needs with suppliers relationships and performance in alignment with technology, cost, quality, and delivery drivers.
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