Logistics Operations Manager, Google Data Centers

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Saint-Ghislain, Belgium; Brussels, Belgium.Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Logistics, Operations, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5 years of experience managing warehousing and supply chain operations.
  
• 5 years of experience working with, supervising, and managing third-party logistics relationships.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or Master's degree.
  
• 5 years of experience analyzing data and generating business insights in order to guide business decisions.
  
• Experience with data center logistics.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional, fast-paced environment, and to support complex operational initiatives.

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.

In this role, you will be the leader of how Google optimizes daily logistics processes while incorporating current industry standards and best practices. You will be responsible for driving continuous process improvement recommendations, managing the implementation of changes within operations, standardizing user documentation, creating processes that motivate action, and interacting with all partner teams. You will initiate and oversee operational improvement efforts for the EMEA Google Cloud Logistics, analyze operational impacts to inform improvements, work with key stakeholders, motivate innovation within the operational teams, and create presentations or documents for the leadership team highlighting operational performance and improvements.

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

• Own the day-to-day logistics operations management, manage 3PL vendor operating warehouse and data centers in assigned locations, and ensure that they perform to the aligned SLAs ensuring business continuity. 
• Manage and monitor metrics for KPIs, vendor performance scorecards, and development of business cases to support logistics process changes and/or improvements. Drive alignment and prioritization of initiatives in a fast-paced environment with many interdependencies.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to reduce end to end delivery cycle times. Own quarterly/annual budgeting, invoice control, and capital improvement projects within your locations.
• Engage with Google stakeholders to ensure alignment of priorities and joint opportunities to scale the business efficiently, delivering on joint performance targets.
  
• Drive continuous opportunity initiatives to address obstacles for both forward and reverse material flows into and out of data centers/warehouses.

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.