Supply and Demand Planning Program Manager, Google Nest

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Due to the current health crisis related to COVID-19 and the escalating visa/travel restrictions in place, we’re currently unable to extend offers to anyone who cannot work from Taiwan due to lockdown visa/travel restrictions, or other restrictive measures until further notice. Consequently, we will be prioritizing candidates who can start in this location by set date as expected. We’re keeping the situation under review and would adjust our position should the restrictive measures be removed later on.

Minimum qualifications:

• 5 years of supply chain operations experience in retail sector and/or consumer hardware.
• 3 years of direct supply/demand planning experience with end-to-end supply chain management (e.g. forecasting, warehousing, fulfillment, reverse logistics).
• Experience in project/program management.
  
  

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of e-commerce replenishment experience.
• Cross-functional leadership and change management experience that drives performance and execution excellence.
• Experience in running collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment processes with retailers.
• Experience managing regional sell-in, sell-through, and sell-out demand forecasting and inventory allocation throughout product life cycle.
• Expertise in planning and demand forecasting and inventory optimization.
• Excellent critical thinking, presentation, and decision-making skills.
  
  

About The Job

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It’s your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.

Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.

Consumer Hardware is a provider of cutting-edge first party hardware products. By hardware, we mean that we take the whole consumer experience into consideration, including the purchasing experience, along with the hardware, software, design, supply chain, and go-to-market (sales and marketing) strategy. We strive to have polished end-user experiences offering the best of Google. In this role, you will join Google’s Consumer Hardware team and be responsible for supply/demand planning activities for the assigned 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

• Develop supply and demand models to minimize total costs and inventories while maintaining excellent service levels to customers. Lead cross-functional Executive Sales and Operations planning cycle, facilitating cross-functional alignment on forecast and supply allocation.
• Collaborate with Demand Planning, Sales Operations, and Product Management teams to comprehend and influence demand. Drive consistently high levels of forecast accuracy across retail partners and Google’s online channel.
• Work in partnership with NPI and Sustaining Operations, Materials Management, and Global Commodity teams to set optimal build plans and transportation choices to meet goals and budgets.
• Drive product success of metrics (such as inventory, material spend, freight in, and gross margins).
• Support regional implementation of new planning systems/upgrades, and drive continuous improvement initiatives in regional supply chain operational processes.
  
  

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 .