Materials Program Manager, Product Manufacturing and Build Management
Job Summary
Job Description
This Materials Program Manager role at Google in Prague, Czechia focuses on material readiness for mass production. Responsibilities include collaborating with contract manufacturers, planning teams, and commodity managers to ensure smooth product transitions. The role requires managing the material lifecycle from new product introduction (NPI) to end-of-life, identifying and mitigating supply chain risks. This includes liaising with planning and contract manufacturers, communicating status and risks, and driving process improvements for scalability. Project management from inception to completion is crucial, requiring well-defined scopes and collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders in supply and labor constrained environments.
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Business
- 6+ years experience
- Supply chain & materials management
- Contract manufacturer experience
- Project/program management skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills
Good to have:
- Cross-functional project management
- Data transformation with spreadsheets
- New product launch experience
2 skills required
Job Details
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program or project management.
- 2 years of experience in supply chain management (e.g., forecasting, fulfillment, reverse logistics).
- 2 years of experience in materials management with contract manufacturers.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience transforming data with spreadsheets (e.g., Google Sheets).
- Experience bringing new products to market.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, and ability to work with data sources to derive insights.
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.
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
- Drive material readiness for mass production builds through collaboration with contract manufacturers, planning teams, and commodity managers.
- Ensure smooth product transitions. Be the primary material liaison with Planning, NPI (New Product Introduction) and CM (Contract Manufacturer) for product bring up and launch. Identify supply chain risks and mitigation steps to ensure material readiness from a product goes into mass production and through the end of life.
- Communicate status, risks, and influence change. Drive initiatives and process improvements to help the team to become more scalable.
- Develop processes to enable on-time delivery and mitigation across multiple Contract Manufacturers in supply and labor constrained environments.
- Manage projects from inception through completion. Ensure requirements are complete and scope is well defined with multiple cross-functional stakeholders.
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