Global Category Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a Technical or Engineering field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 7 years of experience in procurement and supply chain management.
• Experience in global category/commodity management.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree in a Technical or Engineering field.
  
• Knowledge of international requirements, currency, tax, codes, and logistics issues.
  
• Excellent leadership and influencing skills.
  
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills, translating to relationships with stakeholders and suppliers.

About the job

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.

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

• Develop and execute commodity strategies through close collaboration with Google engineering and commodity teams.
• Conduct detailed agreement discussions, including comprehensive contractual agreements, and ensure capacity planning and supply-chain strategies are implemented to meet on time delivery.
• Drive RFI (Request for Information), RFP (Request for Proposal), and RFQ (Request for Quotation) and lead cross-functional teams with supplier selection process, define cost drivers, develop cost models, and establish should cost analysis.
• Serve as an internal point of contact for all ongoing remediation and quality improvement programs, define Research and Development (R&D) efforts, and implement supply chain and supply base improvements.
• Implement supply chain improvements, managing supply base improvement with supplier metrics and regular business reviews.

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