Program Manager, Supply and Demand Planning, Fitbit

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, and/or equivalent practical experience in the supply chain industry
• 5 years of experience in supply chain planning (e.g., supply planning, inventory planning, etc.) within consumer hardware
• Experience in project/program management
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in demand planning
• Experience with Google tools
• Experience in cross-functional leadership and change management that drives performance/execution excellence
• Excellent critical thinking, presentation, communication, and decision making skills
  
  

About The Job

Consumer Hardware is an ever-growing product area within Google, as a provider of cutting-edge first-party hardware products. We take the consumer experience into consideration, including the purchasing experience, along with the hardware, software, design, supply chain, and go-to-market strategy.

As a Program Manager, you will help expand and enhance our global supply planning operations. You will be responsible for supply/demand planning activities for product categories.

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

• Lead product supply chain planning by partnering with cross-functional partners and developing/managing supply models.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with multiple internal operations teams and Contract Manufacturers to maximize supply availability and product allocation.
• Gather data and metrics to analyze and identify exceptions, root cause, and provide solutions to create/prepare Google slides and meeting content for Standard Operating Procedures and Product Review meetings.
• Impact success of KPI metrics such as Finished Goods inventory, Excess and Obsolescence, material spend, Cost of Goods Sold, and gross margins.
• Manage product specific strategic projects cross-functionally that continue to drive improvements and efficiencies across the larger supply chain planning and fulfillment organization.
  
  

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