Global Supply Chain Manager, Mechanical, Pixel

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in global supply chain management in consumer electronics and experience in manufacturing and supply chain processes.
• Experience in injection molding, metal CNC, die casting, MIM, hinge, forging, glass, painting, plating, sheet metal, and die cuts.
• Ability to travel as needed.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working in global supply chain management and consumer electronics.
• Experience collaborating and working cross-functionally with Engineering and Product teams.
• Experience working and partnering with supplier management at a global scale.
• Experience working with international supply-base partners at executive levels.
• Excellent communication, sourcing, consulting, and collaboration skills.
  
  

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.

Our Mechanical Global Supply Chain Management team is responsible for the supplier selection, manufacturing development execution, cost discussions, and production of differentiated and unique mechanical enclosure parts and ensuring vendor supply.

In this role, you will work on the supply chain for mechanical parts for fast-paced consumer devices and lead the sourcing strategy, supply selection, capital investment, and commercial discussions of suppliers. You will work cross-functionally to develop innovative, responsive, and sustainable supply chain solutions that enable high quality and helpful products developed in partnership with our Engineering teams.

As a Global Supply Chain Manager, you will use your industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global supply chain, develop Should Cost Models and manage supply chain risk through all phases of product development in support of the consumer hardware business.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Only one thing consistently stands in the way between our users and the world’s information—hardware. Our Consumer Hardware team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, more powerful, and seamless. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, our Consumer Hardware team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of the commercial and agreement engagement with our global mechanical supply base.
• Manage suppliers to ensure production readiness, assurance of supply, and overall quality in support of New Product Introduction (NPI) builds and sustaining operations.
• Manage close partnerships with internal partners including Engineering, Marketing, and Operations to drive innovative, cost effective, and high quality solutions that support our overall product launch and sustainability goals.
• Manage supply chain risk while creating adaptable and responsive supply chain solutions.
• Manage overall mechanical material spend and related capital investments and develop/execute global supply chain strategies.
  
  

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