Global Commodity Manager, Mechanical

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or Business or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of commodity management experience.
• 2 years of Mechanicals experience.
• Supply chain experience.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a similar field.
• 5 years of commodity management experience in Mechanicals.
• Knowledge of Mechanical commodity, suppliers and technologies for data center applications, and knowledge of sheetmetal, plastic process, and materials.
• Team player, result and detail oriented, with the ability to cope with a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Excellent communication, written, presentation, and leadership skills, with the ability to assume a leadership role with cross-functional peers.
• Solid analytical skills (i.e. cost modeling, quotation analysis, roadmap development, supplier selection/performance).
  
  

About the jobCommodity 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

• Co-develop commodity strategies and execute on them, co-lead cross-functional teams through robust supplier selection for new platforms, and conduct high-level discussions and secure comprehensive agreements with supplier executives.
• Maintain high level of industry expertise and supplier/market conditions, and manage supplier performance in cost, quality, delivery and technology alignment through weekly meetings and scorecard reviews.
• Implement supply chain improvements.
• Work on quarter over quarter quoting and cost reductions.
• Work with suppliers on material escalations.
  
  

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