Global Commodity Manager, Power

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in procurement and supply chain management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with demand planning, supplier capacity planning, and resolving gaps between demand and supply.
• Experience in commodity or supply chain management for cloud, hyperscale, and data center power architectures.
• Ability to learn new concepts, work through ambiguity, and resolve conflicts while collaborating with internal and external partners in a fluid environment.
• Ability to drive process improvements and change across multiple teams.
• Excellent leadership, management, and problem-solving skills, along with excellent business acumen to support decision-making.

About the job

Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. As a Commodity Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global -- and growing -- infrastructure. The scale at which Google operates means that savings on just one piece of hardware can have a huge impact on Google's bottom line.

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

• Develop reporting or dashboards of supply chain metrics, related to supplier capacity and commitments vs demand, lead times, costs and technology alignment.
• Drive supply chain capacity commitments, material shortage improvements, and activities, serving as escalation point between internal partner teams and suppliers.
• Assist cross-functional teams with new product introductions, including supplier selection, multi-sourcing, part qualifications and material readiness.
• Stay informed on industry knowledge to keep stakeholders informed of market and supplier conditions, and support the development of strategies for power hardware and supply chain improvements.
• Support negotiations to secure comprehensive supplier agreements and participate in quarterly quoting and cost-reduction efforts.