Materials Program Manager, Product Manufacturing, Build Management

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.

Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

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, communicate status, risks, and influence change, and 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, and ensure requirements are complete and scope is well defined with multiple cross-functional stakeholders.

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.