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.

In this role, you will be responsible for spares planning, execution and driving process improvements in our supply chain. Your skills in the areas of supply chain material planning and fulfillment will be critical for optimizing material and inventory required to sustain the health of massive compute hardware and technology requirements at our global data centers. You will work closely with Material Planning, NPI, Supply Planning, Purchasing, Quality, Engineering, Hardware Operation and Data Center Software teams to develop and oversee the execution of the spares strategies that directly support Google's rapidly growing hardware infrastructure. You will be a key enabler to ensure support of volume ramp of new technology, and ramp down of old technology.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $147,000-$216,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional partners to develop and execute spares strategies, analytics and reverse flow processes that enable sustainment of leading edge technology to power our global data centers. Act as a leading team member in the development of spares strategies throughout the product life-cycle.

• Enable on-time and predictable delivery of materials to all points of consumption.

• Partner with Finance and Inventory Management to enable cost optimization and awareness through sustaining product transitions, inventory planning and Excess and Obsolescence.

• Partner with our New Product Introduction (NPI) team to ensure seamless production ramp on innovative new technologies into our global data center fleet.

• Contribute to supply chain designs to enable scalable supply chain models in a dynamic product and supply base environment. Enable process improvements and tool development of ongoing evolution of our team.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 5 years of experience in program or project management.

• Experience working with Sales and Operations Planning, Demand Planning and Forecasting.

• Experience developing supply chain strategy.

Preferred qualifications

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

• Experience with supply chain in Spares, Demand and Supply Planning, Fulfillment, Inventory and Operations management.

• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to stay focused and achieve results.

• Excellent communication and people management skills, with the ability to influence across multiple organizational levels.