Program Manager III, Demand and Supply Planning, Cloud Supply Chain

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program or project management.
• Experience with supply or demand planning (e.g., demand forecasting, inventory management, resource allocation, etc.).
• Experience developing planning models for new product introduction (NPI).

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in data modeling, trend analysis, statistics, forecasting, and business insights.
• Excellent investigative skills.

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.

The Supply Chain Planning team within Cloud supply chain operations, is responsible for optimal fulfillment and transformation of Google’s fleet by balancing and shaping demand intent from product areas, planning new technology, and driving supply capability across data centers, networking, and machines.

As a Demand and Supply Planning Program Manager, you will be accountable for the order life-cycle, culminating in on-time product delivery. In this cross-functional role you will use your investigative skills to establish and drive metrics, drive process and system improvements to accomplish efficiency and scalability goals, and directly support growing infrastructure at global data centers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop planning models for new product introduction (NPI) driving alignment across product categories and establishing optimized inventory strategies.
• Own supply and demand models that seek to minimize total costs while maintaining/improving service levels.
• Establish methods (e.g., statistical models, processes, and software tools) to evaluate the supply chain’s ability to meet customer demand and develop inventory buffer strategies that optimize cost and flexibility.
• Lead demand and supply planning meetings with cross-functional teams, reviewing supply, demand risks/mitigation options/service level goals.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to procure materials and ensure availability to fulfill customer needs while driving operational efficiency.