Supply Chain Program Manager, New Product Introduction
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or Operations Research or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program or project management.
- 2 years of experience in managing NPI materials.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or MBA in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or Operations Research.
- Experience across all phases of a product from prototype to mass production to end of life.
- Experience with supply, or demand planning, and with accounting, or finance.
- Experience leading cross-functional process improvements.
- Ability to shift between detailed analysis and big picture thinking, and customizing communications based on the audience, and to collaborate and influence across multiple levels of an organization.
- Excellent investigative and communication/facilitation 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.
As a Supply Chain Program Manager, you work with cross-functional teams starting with product inception to volume ramp to bring innovative products into global data centers efficiently and dynamically. You demonstrate domain expertise in material readiness, clear to build, supplier and contract manufacturer management, procurement, manufacturing, supply resiliency and are well versed in other aspects of Operations and Engineering that impact supply chain strategies and execution.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.
We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.
Responsibilities
- Drive material and supply chain readiness for all New Product Introduction (NPI) builds from concept phase to production handoff, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure success.
- Identify and communicate supply chain risks and mitigation plans to ensure materials readiness for NPI builds as well as enabling long term supply continuity into production.
- Be the primary materials liaison with ODM/CM/Suppliers, manage spend against project budgets, and drive large production risk buys and strategic buffers.
- Develop and document global supply chain map for each product, including suppliers, procurement model, lead time, shipment logistics, assembly/test/fulfillment model, and spares strategies.
- Update project schedules, communicate status, risks and influence change, and represent the New Product Introduction Supply Chain organization in internal program meetings, drive initiatives and process improvements to help the team grow in scalability.
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