Manufacturing Business Manager, Google Nest

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in supply chain management, manufacturing, business negotiation, or partner management.
• Experience leading/managing Contract Manufacturers (CM) and Original Design Manufacturers (ODM).
• Experience with finance and analytics, and cost modeling and negotiation.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA.
• Experience with a broad range of procurement and supply chain.
• Experience in consumer product hardware development.
• Experience with establishing impactful partnerships, with the ability to interpret legal documents, and work with legal to complete agreements.
• Fluency in Mandarin and familiarity with international business customs.
• Willingness to travel in Asia 25% or more of the time and for extended periods, as needed.
  
  

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.

In this role, you will lead the sourcing, selection, agreement phase, and commercial discussions of outsourced manufacturing partners. You will develop cost models of assemblies and products and lead discussions from inception to agreement phase. You will update and report cost performance and supply chain risk management through all phases of the product development lifecycle. You will also be the Supply Chain lead to the overall program development team and drive cost performance across the commodity teams in support of program goals.

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

• Develop CM/ODM strategy and implement supplier management processes with critical partners.
• Lead the creation and implementation of request for x (RFX) processes for sourcing needs.
• Own the agreement creation process with the cross-functional program needs in mind.
• Manage assigned manufacturing partner to program requirements in cost, quality, schedule, and technology areas.
• Perform periodic cost improvement ideas in terms of Design for Manufacturing or alternative technology choices.
  
  

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