Global Supply Manager, Hardware

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.
• Experience in Capex Management or Commodity Management category or commodity management, agreement negotiation and supplier development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree in a Technical, Engineering or a related field.
• Experience in consumer product hardware development.
• Experience with Design For Manufacturing (DFM).
• Experience in managing partnerships with the ability to interpret legal documents and work with the Legal team to complete agreements.

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.

Consumer Hardware team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make the user's interaction with computing faster and seamless.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

• Understand and execute a global product or commodity roadmap.
• Serve as a commercial liaison between vendors or suppliers and internal stakeholders. Keep stakeholders informed of issues.
• Negotiate agreements with vendors or suppliers.
• Manage multiple projects with considering value and timing. Contribute to development of overall project plans.