Global Commodity Manager, Interconnect, Google Cloud
Job Summary
Job Description
The Global Commodity Manager, Interconnect, at Google Cloud in Taipei, Taiwan, ensures Google has the necessary supplies and equipment for its innovative products. This role involves optimizing the total cost of ownership for Google's global infrastructure, leveraging industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships. Key responsibilities include material management, addressing shortages, collaborating with suppliers to meet performance metrics, co-leading cross-functional teams for supplier selection, contributing to new product introduction (NPI) programs and multi-sourcing efforts, developing commodity strategies, maintaining industry expertise, and managing supplier performance across cost, quality, delivery, and technology alignment. The role requires driving supply chain improvements and participating in quarterly quoting and cost reduction initiatives. Success in this position requires strong leadership, collaboration, and analytical skills to manage complex supply chains and negotiate favorable terms with suppliers.
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree in technical field or equivalent experience
- 4+ years procurement & supply chain management experience
- Experience with interconnect supply base & technologies
- Strong leadership, negotiation, and analytical skills
- Cross-functional collaboration & conflict resolution
Good to have:
- Experience in server/storage infrastructure
- Ability to drive change across multiple functions
- Experience with NPI programs and multi-sourcing
- High sensitivity for industry/technology intelligence
3 skills required
Job Details
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in procurement and supply chain management.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with Interconnect supply base and technologies for server and storage infrastructure.
- Ability to travel and to drive change with a long term perspective across multiple functions.
- Ability to work in ambiguous situations, and resolve conflicts while working cross-functionally with internal/external partners at a fast pace.
- Ability to be a part of the team, result and detail oriented.
- Excellent leadership, management, with outstanding business acumen, decision-making, and investigative skills.
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.As an Interconnect Commodity Manager in the Cloud Supply Chain and Operations (CSCO), you will play a critical role in driving suppliers to execute and manage supplier relationships ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality materials at the best possible cost. You will partner with executive interconnect Global Commodity Management (GCM). You will provide inputs to the commodity strategy and execute on them. You will help build, scale, and standardize first-tier and sub-tiers components that supply ecosystems with a high degree of effectiveness and efficiency. You will lead performance management through metrics and supplier reviews and drive exceptional supply chain improvements. You will engage with engineers and cross-functional teams on next generation technology initiatives focused on driving multi-sourcing goals and qualifications in the NPI product life cycle. You will maintain a high sensitivity for industry/technology intelligence and market supply/demand conditions.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
- Focus on material management, shortages, and Change The Business (CTB) activities serving as an escalation point between internal partner teams and suppliers.
- Work with suppliers to drive performance metrics. Co-Lead cross-functional teams with executive team members through robust supplier selection for new platforms.
- Work across New Product Introduction (NPI) programs, help to drive mult-sourcing efforts and part qualifications. Provide input to commodity strategies and execute on them.
- Maintain high level of industry expertise and supplier/market conditions through research. Manage supplier performance in cost, quality, delivery and technology alignment through weekly meetings and scorecard reviews.
- Consistently implement supply chain improvements. Participate in quarter quoting and cost reductions.
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