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Google Hiring for Material Program Manager, Wearables at Mountain View, CA Full Time
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience
- 10 years of experience in a program management capacity, with guiding cross-functional teams through milestones
- Experience in the consumer electronics industry
- Experience working in supply chain and materials and inventory management
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA with emphasis in Supply Chain Management
- Experience in new product introduction, supply chain, management, manufacturing, operations/development, or operations engineering
- Experience working with global and cross-functional internal and external team
- Experience with material management and procurement
- Experience in mentoring a team, implementing process improvements, and networking
- Effective communication, analytical, problem-solving, and strategy skills
About the job
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.
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
- Lead and grow the material management operations efforts for consumer hardware, supporting our global footprint, with team responsibilities including materials readiness of new/sustaining products to ensure time-to-volume performance for our product portfolio, managing material budgets and purchase schedules.
- Establish and drive contract manufacturer (CM) material planning, implementation, and production scheduling and input into capacity plans to meet forecast with enhancement based on clear to build/capacity constraints and Google priorities by products.
- Participate and lead strategic projects and initiatives across multiple business units.
- Act as the focal point of purchase/promote, component buffer strategy implementation, and shortage escalation with cross-functional teams.
- Drive CM Performance management process/metrics for material planning activities and provide weekly executive summary (e.g., commit attainment, shortage mitigation and resolution, CM PO management performance, etc.).
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.
