Global Commodity Manager, Interconnect

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in commodity or supply chain management with cable and connector commodities
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master’s degree in Engineering
• 10 years of experience in commodity management or supply chain management in a high-tech industry
• Experience managing commodities in addition to cable/connector, and in cross-functional leadership or management
• Understanding of worldwide cable/connector supply base and technologies for server/storage infrastructure
• Ability to drive change with a long-term perspective across multiple functions and transform the business, and to cope with a fast-paced and changing environment
• Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to be a team player, result/detail oriented, take initiative, and travel
  
  

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.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google’s product portfolio possible. We’re proud to be our engineers’ engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to commodity strategies and execute on them.
• Contribute to supplier selection for new platforms through cross-functional team collaboration.
• Maintain a high level of industry expertise and supplier/market conditions.
• Manage supplier performance in cost, quality, delivery, and technology alignment.
• Implement supply chain improvements.
  
  

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