Global Supply Manager, Capital Equipment Expenditure

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Process Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in Global Supply Management or procurement and supply chain.
• Experience in New Product Introduction managing Capital Equipment Vendors.
• Experience in finance and analytics, cost modeling, and negotiations.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Business Administration.
• Experience in consumer product hardware development.
• Experience in Design For Manufacturing (DFM).
• Experience establishing partnerships, interpreting legal documents, and working with the Legal teams to complete agreements.
• Experience with international business customs.
• Ability to speak and write in Mandarin fluently.
  
  

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. In this role, 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.

As a Global Supply Manager, you will help ensure Google has capital equipment support for the production of the products coming from our Engineering teams. You’ll build and leverage relationships with key suppliers to ensure cost, quality and delivery goals are met. Additionally, you will maintain supplier relationships, agreements, and assess total cost of ownership to achieve optimum results.

In this role, you’ll support implementation and management of strategies to provide excellent supply assurance, pricing, flexibility, quality, and delivery performance of our hardware products. You will set up and execute a cross-functional equipment vendor selection processes with Operations and Engineering teams and help optimize capital equipment. You’ll help with vendor support services, ensure sufficient capacity for equipment production and on-time delivery, and support Engineering teams with the development of customized production processes and vendor support of production line ramp-up.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user’s interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people’s lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic equipment and fixture vendor partnerships for cross-programs to further commercial and operational priorities.
• Negotiate equipment and fixtures to support build readiness across ongoing, concurrent development builds, directly with vendors or indirectly through contract manufacturing partners.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to drive capital equipment strategies across Google Hardware and manage existing assets and investments.
• Engage Engineering, Operations, and vendors in technical discussions to optimize capital investment through design, processes, and supply chain management.
• Communicate effectively with Mandarin speaking clients.
  
  

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 .