NPI Operations Program Manager, Physical Infrastructure
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in project management.
- Experience in supply chain operations, asset management, manufacturing, procurement, commodity management, or supplier management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or Operations, or a related technical field.
- Experience in products from prototype to production, with Supply/Demand Planning and Accounting/Finance.
- Experience in leading cross-functional process improvements, and collaborate and influence across multiple-levels of an organization.
- Experience with Rack, Power, Advanced Cooling solution development and ability to deliver data driven/fact based analysis for business proposal, supply chain design and supply risk mitigation.
- Ability to shift between detailed analysis and big picture thinking, and customizing communications based on the audience.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication 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 aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.
As a New Product Introduction (NPI) Operations Program Manager, you will be the primary operations/supply chain interface to the development and deployment teams with the responsibility for driving operations new product development as well as supporting those products through production ramp. You are well versed in the Contract Manufacturing (CM)/ODM manufacturing environments and will lead a team of professionals to ensure products are designed and built to Google standards.
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
- Lead large, complex, cross-functional Program teams within Google and with external partners to prepare for production ramp and/or product transitions.
- Plan and execute operations development activities and ensure transition to production within cost, quality and capacity parameters. Ensure successful production transitions meeting program goals.
- Manage ramp readiness with internal teams as well as external partners (i.e., material availability, cost/assembly/test/BOM/capacity readiness and transition plans).
- Drive cross-functional teams to optimize the supply chain for specific strategic reasons, while accounting for risks, changes in schedule or demand.
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