Manager, Global Category Manager, Data Center Equipment

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.

The Equipment Supply Chain (ESC) organization is focused on Data Center Infrastructure and is responsible for planning, sourcing, supply chain, procurement and supplier management functions for data center power and cooling equipment.

ESC partners closely work with Data Center Engineering and Construction Teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams.

As a Manager of Category Management at Google, you will be responsible to define and execute Google’s strategic sourcing for new data center infrastructure equipment and supplier management. You will be an expert with the knowledge of infrastructure technology management, strategy development, sourcing and supplier/integrator relationship, performance and cost management. You will have the experience and technical knowledge, business and commercial acumen, program management fluency, and possess excellent communication, negotiation, teamwork, people management, conflict resolution and relationship management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Global Category Managers within the Equipment Supply Chain organization.
• Deliver sourcing and supply chain objectives for Products in the Data Center Infrastructure space.
• Develop and execute category strategies to achieve total cost of ownership, lead time, capacity, innovation and quality objectives for the products managed through close collaboration with Google cross-functional teams (engineering, quality, operations, finance, etc).
• Conduct strategic technology negotiations including contractual agreements to deliver cost, lead time and capacity objectives for the organization.
• Implement supply chain, inventory and process improvements through supplier performance metrics, scorecards, business continuity plans and regular business reviews.