Google Hiring for Director, Logistics Operations, Google Cloud at Atlanta Central City Post Offi, GA Full Time
Applications will be accepted through July 12, 2021.
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location for this position from the following: Atlanta, GA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location for this position from the following: Atlanta, GA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10 years of Warehouse or Fulfillment Operations Management experience, including: 3PL supplier management, warehouse automation systems, and management of remote teams, suppliers and projects.
- Experience leading warehouse safety, security, quality, and inventory programs.
- Experience identifying and analyzing problems using data analysis.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or Master’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or related technical field.
- Six Sigma, Total Quality Management, or other related professional certification.
- Experience with executive level engagement and setting KPI’s (key performance indicators) and expectations for operational excellence.
- Manufacturing experience.
- Experience deploying “state of the art” tools, process and automation to improve speed, scale and simplification of operations and logistics [e.g. WMS, TMS (transportation management systems), GTM (global transportation management), and robotics].
- Experience with matrixed strategy implementation in large and complex organizations.
About the job
Global Capacity Delivery (GCD) provides Alphabet a competitive advantage by delivering capacity at extraordinary speed, scale and efficiency. We plan, introduce new products, source, build, deliver, and return. We are responsible for Supply Chain Planning, Global Commodity Management, Global Manufacturing, New Product Introduction, Product Lifecycle Management, Global Logistics, Program Management, Supply Chain Responsibility, and Supply Chain BizOps.
The GCD Charter: We plan, buy, build, and deploy the world’s largest cloud infrastructure. We enable our cloud infrastructure to operate in the most resource efficient manner – economically and technically. We aim to provide the world’s most sustainable and socially responsible cloud infrastructure.
As Director, Logistics Operations, Google Cloud you will be responsible for logistics activities across the Americas including leadership and operational excellence for distribution operations. This includes warehousing, safety, security, spend management, inventory management, supporting warehouse automation, continuous improvement, and orchestrating excellence across our extensive and complex 3PL (third-party logistics) network in the Americas.
The primary internal customers for Google Logistics Operations (GLO) are Technical Infrastructure (TI) and Global Capacity Delivery (GCD). GLO partners closely with the TI/GCD organization to provide warehousing, trade compliance and transportation activities that support the build out of Google’s global compute capacity for Alphabet.
The Business Operations and Strategy team at Google plays a critical role in defining and driving strategic, operational and organizational improvements across the company. Also known as “BizOps”, the group operates like an internal consulting group working on a range of critical projects and issues. BizOps creates strategies for promoting growth of our products like YouTube, Chrome and Mobile. They handle issues around partner development, strategy work in emerging markets such as Africa and India, as well as pricing strategies across our B2B and consumer products. The BizOps team is at the forefront of Google’s fast-moving strategic priorities, addressing operational challenges and enabling innovation.
Responsibilities
- Lead and continuously improve all warehousing, receiving, shipping, serviceability to manufacturing, inventory management, supporting warehouse automation [warehouse management systems (WMS), material requirements planning systems (MRP)] and robotics.
- Be accountable for safety, security, and quality program management for all warehousing.
- Establish and maintain strategic supplier management through an extensive complex global 3PL network across the Americas, proactively ensure capacity (space) and resources, and create risk mitigation plans.
- Ensure the right metrics are driving the right results for Logistics in serving our stakeholders with speed and efficiency through data analytics, business case development, and presentation skills.
- Collaborate with Region Logistics Peers for standardized processes and tools and listen to stakeholders taking action to make any necessary changes to serve them better.
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