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Google Hiring for Global Supply Chain Manager, Devices and Services at Mountain View, CA Full Time
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
- 6 years of experience in Commodity Management, Sourcing, or Supply Chain
- Experience managing Semiconductor components/connectivity solutions
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Engineering or Business Administration
- 7 years of experience in Commodity Management, Connectivity Sourcing, or Supply Chain Management
- Experience in specific sourcing and procurement (e.g., WiFi/BLE/FEMs/PAs/Switches)
- Understanding of Semiconductor technologies and processes to guide and influence product cost development and decisions, including the ability to build semiconductor cost models
- Ability to manage complex projects
- Excellent verbal and written communication, sourcing, and collaboration skills
About the job
As a Global Supply Chain Manager, you will interface with internal cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers to procure Connectivity solutions for Google Nest products. You will scout, discuss cost, and deliver Wireless modules and components at a consumer electronics scale. You’ll use your supplier relationships to optimize total cost of ownership for Wireless solutions. You will serve as the primary contact for internal teams and external partners/suppliers for sourcing and procurement. You will build consensus with stakeholders and be the main contact for discussing agreements and supplier management.
In this role, you will lead and support the development, implementation, and management of Global strategies to provide Google’s Devices and Services Product Area with optimal pricing, supply flexibility, quality, and supply assurance. Work with Product Management, Hardware and Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, and Operations Teams. Lastly, you will be the commercial owner with a focus on agreements and pricing, and on maintaining long-term strategic supplier relationships.
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people’s lives better through technology.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute strategies for Consumer Hardware. Identify and implement new opportunities for Cost Savings and Cost Avoidance, including optimizing the supply base for Google’s Consumer Hardware needs.
- Understand cost competitive technologies, processes, and products to guide and influence product development decisions, create cost models for components, and processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities and risks related to product design and business plans.
- Develop global sourcing strategies with defined plans for cost savings, risk assessment and mitigation, and supply planning agreements.
- Address all areas of global sourcing and supply chain management (i.e., commodity business plans, supplier performance management, and global market), building up a supply base that’s the right fit for Google, pricing analysis, agreements, and procurement support.
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.
