Google Hiring for Category Manager, Construction at Chicago, IL Full Time
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain and Operations Management, Finance, Business, relevant area, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of multi-disciplined procurement experience.
- 5 years of category strategy development and strategic sourcing experience within construction categories and overall procurement experience.
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced technical degree or MBA.
- Experience working in the Technology Industry.
- Experience participating on cross-functional and/or global teams.
- Experience supporting initiatives from strategy to execution and delivering results while managing multiple tasks with strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
- Subject matter expert (SME) knowledge of construction procurement practices and agreements to drive value for key business partners.
- Ability to drive strategic decisions and influence executives and experience leading cross-functional teams consisting of various internal and external stakeholders.
About the job
In the Google Procurement Organization (GPO), our aim is to unlock value for Google to reinvest in what matters most. We do this by bringing velocity, efficiency, and security to buying at Google, while partnering deeply across Google to deliver solutions fit for purpose. As a centralized organization operating in a high complexity environment, we bring one voice to stakeholders and suppliers to ensure the best outcomes. Our organization fosters a culture of collaboration and innovation while providing opportunities for ongoing career growth and development. As a Category Manager, you will partner closely with key stakeholders to help shape and implement procurement strategies.
The GPO Facilities (REWS) Construction team is responsible for developing and driving holistic category strategies, managing stakeholder relationships, and bringing excellence to Google-wide sourcing, supplier, and supplier management for the construction of the new Google offices in the United States.
In this role, you will work in a team environment that is high-growth, fast moving, and constantly changing. You will embrace ambiguity and collaborate across teams to develop new procurement approaches and solve complex business problems. As a Category Manager, you will support operational excellence while being part of an environment where team members can grow, learn, do their best work, and feel appreciated.
The name Google came from “googol,” a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.
Responsibilities
- Develop of should cost and total cost of ownership models for the category. Ensure alignment of category plans and strategies to business priorities and functional objectives.
- Support the management of strong partnerships with key budget owners, functional stakeholders, and strategic suppliers.
- Be part of multiple cross-functional teams executing major category initiatives, ensure delivery of values across the procurement process, contribute to the compliance tracking of category specific policies and performance metrics, and support the translation of rapidly evolving category market trends and leading practices into opportunities for Google.
- Drive program level intiatives that can create benefits for all procurement activities as improving an existing process, implement a price database, execute actions to increase diversity, etc.
- Play an integral role in the development of multi-year global category plans and strategies across REWS construction categories.
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