Manufacturing Business Manager, Device and Services

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in supply chain management, manufacturing, business negotiation, or partner management
• Experience with finance and analytics
• Experience with cost modeling and negotiation
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or advanced degree in business and industrial engineering
• Experience in consumer hardware product development, mass production, connected devices, ambient computing, UWB/LTE, and carrier business
• Experience with negotiation, establishing impactful partnerships, and executive relationship management
• Ability to interpret and draft legal documents, and experience working with legal teams to complete legal agreements and commercial negotiations
• Fluency in Mandarin and familiarity with international business customs
• Ability to travel globally up to 20% of the time
  
  

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.

The Devices and Services Product Area brings consumers the very best that Google has to offer by building excellent consumer hardware.

Manufacturing Business Management team’s mission is to lead partnerships with deep technical and commercial expertise, harnessing the power of our supply base to achieve innovation, cost, quality, and supply to delight Google Hardware, Nest, and Fitbit users.

In this role, you will manage commercial relationships with Contract Managers/Joint Design Manufacturers (CM/JDMs), and drive sourcing, agreement, commercial, and performance optimization decisions for devices. You will work with Engineering and Operations teams to achieve product cost, schedule, and quality goals throughout the product lifecycle.

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

• Own the agreement creation process with the cross-functional program needs in mind. Manage assigned manufacturing partners to program requirements in cost, quality, schedule, and technology areas.
• Develop cost models of assemblies and products (i.e. manufacturing value added), and lead discussions from inception to contracting phase; drive continuous cost optimization during mass production.
• Manage Total Cost of Ownership discussions. Support engineering and operations escalations, and drive immediate performance improvement.
• Update and report cost performance and supply chain risk management, and lead executive sessions with CM/JDMs and technology roadshows, and propose periodic cost improvement ideas in terms of design for x or alternative technology choices.
• Develop CM/JDM strategy, and implement supplier management processes with critical partners, and lead the creation and implementation of request for x processes.
  
  

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .