Manufacturing Business Manager, Google Home

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience in multi-disciplined procurement, leading strategy development, execution and sourcing or a related function.
• 2 years of experience managing category strategies and sourcing teams across multiple categories for both goods and services in the indirect category space.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or equivalent degree.
• Experience managing tactical procurement and supply chain functions.
• Experience with international business customs and establishing partnerships.
• Ability to operate in an ambiguous and dynamic work environment.
• Ability to travel 25% of the time as needed.

Ability to communicate in Mandarin and English fluently to support direct engagements with in-region manufacturing partners and internal executives

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.

Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us - and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Develop partner strategy and implement supplier management processes with selected partners.
  
• Create and implement program award processes for sourcing needs.
  
• Manage aspects of commercial engagement including contracting of master service agreements and statements of work, manufacturing value add (MVA) and component BOM costs, and development build expenses.
  
• Optimize costs by collaborating with manufacturing partners and cross-functional teams to determine manufacturing and technical requirements.
  
• Manage manufacturing partners to program requirements in cost, quality, schedule, and technology, generate cost improvement ideas in terms of design for manufacturing or alternative technology choices, and serve as point of escalation for tactical issues that cross-functional working teams encounter while working with the manufacturing partner.