QualificationsAnalysis skillsDemand planningPresentation skillsForecastingProgram managementBachelor’s degree
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
7 years of experience in program management.
Experience with clean energy procurement and associated environmental attributes.
Experience in demand planning and/or forecasting.
Preferred qualifications:
Experience working in a program management environment with requirements, priorities, and shared resources.
Experience developing data-driven insights and presenting recommendations.
Understanding of Environmental Attribute systems, and clean energy procurement tools such as Power Purchase Agreement, and Greenhouse Gas Protocol accounting.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to discern key inputs and retain and use data that drives impact decisions with analytical skills.
About the job
The Technical Infrastructure Climate Team is responsible for ensuring that Google achieves Carbon-Free Energy, and Net Zero emissions for our global infrastructure. Our team works cross-functionally across our global operations and supply chain, to develop and scale new solutions that accelerate decarbonization and help us meet our sustainability goals. Clean energy is fundamental to our decarbonization roadmap, and requires detailed planning and coordination across multiple groups and activities within Google. In this role, you will be responsible for developing our demand and supply planning function for clean energy procurement across Google. This includes all teams where clean energy will be a lever reaching our Net Zero goals, including Data Center Operations, Supply Chain, and commercial Real Estate teams. You will manage the coordination across key internal stakeholders to define needs, identify supply, and procurement options, as well as developing tools and processes to run this new function efficiently and transparently with all our stakeholders.
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
Collaborate with relevant teams to identify minimum requirements on clean energy needs and demand, and best supply options meeting our cost and clean energy standards as well as align on key goals.
Develop short and long-range clean energy supply and demand models for Google’s global footprint. Develop and update at regular cadence forecast of record, for clean energy procurement needs by geography.
Drive alignment of stakeholders on appropriate triggers (timing, supply/demand forecast certainty, etc.). Present supply and demand scenarios and clean energy procurement recommendations to leadership, and ensure clear and concise communication to all stakeholder.
Coordinate with financial and operational partners to ensure latest clean energy spend forecasts are accurately captured in financial planning activities.
Develop tools, best practices, standards, and processes to ensure high quality and flexibility of our program
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