Program Manager, Product Manufacturing, Google Cloud

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience in program or project management.
  
• Experience with supply chain, manufacturing, and materials management and planning.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in supply chain operations.
• Experience in hardware product supply chain delivery through the entire life-cycle.
• Experience in driving process improvement projects from idea to implementation and adoption.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to work across multiple levels including with executive leadership.

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 Program Manager for Cloud Supply Chain Operations (CSCO), you will be responsible for managing programs, defining requirements, managing project schedules and communicating to stakeholders. You are will be accountable for reliable and efficient delivery on behalf of CSCO's customers and users.

The Global Capacity Delivery (GCD) organization delivers the compute capability that powers Google and the Google Cloud Platform. GCD plans, introduces new products, sources, builds, delivers, and returns.

Within GCD, the Global Manufacturing Operations (GMO) organization globally manufactures operations and services with predictability, quality and agility. Our GMO organization consists of functions including Partner Management, Configuration Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering, Materials Management, Procurement Operations, Spares and Decom Operations, and Build Planning and Execution.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The Global Capacity Delivery (GCD) organization delivers the compute capability that powers Google and the Google Cloud Platform. GCD plans, introduces new products, sources, builds, delivers, and returns.

Within GCD, the Global Manufacturing Operations (GMO) organization globally manufactures operations and services with predictability, quality and agility. Our GMO organization consists of functions including Partner Management, Configuration Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering, Materials Management, Procurement Operations, Spares and Decom Operations, and Build Planning and Execution.

Responsibilities

• Enable and optimize product on time delivery by actively managing material, capacity, and product specific levers.
• Program manage the sourcing of networking products at global contract manufacturers.
• Drive mitigation efforts to minimize liability of excess and obsolete inventory caused by demand reductions, platform transitions, and product moves.
• Maintain product capacity, materials and processes. Drive improvement of product cost baselines.
• Collaborate with the manufacturing operations and planning teams to identify and drive opportunities to improve product OTD.