Product Cost Manager

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of relevant operations/supply chain, sourcing/commodity management, contract manufacturing or program management experience
• Experience with the hardware development life cycle
• Experience building cost models, analyzing cost trends, and assessing opportunities and risk for new or early-stage product development. Experience with spreadsheet software (e.g., Google Sheets)
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA, Master’s or other advanced degree
• 8 years of broad range procurement and supply chain experience
• Experience in BOM cost management in consumer product hardware development
• Experience in contract manufacturing environment
• Deep interest and aptitude in data, metrics, analysis and trends, capable of translating analysis results into business recommendations
• Excellent team-playing and communication skills
  
  

About The Job

As a Product Cost Manager in the Consumer Hardware Sourcing & Procurement Organization, you will serve as the single point of contact for all activities relating to the device level cost tracking, analysis, and reporting. Additionally, you will be responsible for coordinating and driving cross-functional efforts to make sure that products progress through development and into mass production at cost and margin target. Working closely with Product Management, Hardware Engineering, Industrial Design, Finance, and Operations Teams, you will be the lead and focal point for costs and will be responsible for advocating for and delivering financially healthy products.

As a Product Cost Manager, you will bridge between being deeply analytical and delivering easily digestible and actionable insight to leadership and cross-functional teams. You will utilize your analytical expertise and deep product and operational knowledge to identify opportunities and risks and ensure that our costs are being optimized. You will be responsible for clearly communicating status, trajectory, and goals to all internal stakeholders. It is your job to keep all teams engaged, focussed, and aligned.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our 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 Hardware team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Product Cost Manager lead and single source of truth for cost for assigned product family and deliver financially health products
• Oversee the development and tracking of accurate product level cost models from inception/concept design stages and through entire product life cycle
• Utilize industry knowledge, analytics, industry data, and other inputs to identify cost inefficiencies and opportunities to identify realistic and challenging cost targets
• Collaborate closely with cross functional stakeholders to identify negotiation, design, feature and operational cost opportunities and track through to execution
• Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of leadership, creating visual displays of quantitative cost information. Iteratively build and prototype dashboards to provide insights at scale
  
  

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