Job Description
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 Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Tape Storage category or commodity management, agreement negotiation, and supplier development.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or Master's degree in a technical or engineering field.
- 10 years of experience managing Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Tape Storage commodities.
- Knowledge of the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) and Tape Storage industry, manufacturing, assembly and test processes.
- Excellent investigative skills in industry analysis, cost modeling, quotation analysis, roadmap development, and supplier selection.
About the job
Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. As a Commodity Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global -- and growing -- infrastructure. The scale at which Google operates means that savings on just one piece of hardware can have a huge impact on Google's bottom line.
As a Global Commodity Manager, you will develop commodity strategies and execute on them. You will lead cross-functional teams through the supplier selection process for new platforms/components. You will conduct business discussions and secure comprehensive agreements with suppliers. You will maintain a high level of industry skills and supplier/market conditions, and manage supplier performance in cost, quality, delivery, and technology alignment. You will propose and implement supply chain improvements.
The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.We're the driving team behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.Responsibilities
- Develop long term sourcing strategies for Hard Disk Drives and Tape Storage. Implement Supply Chain improvements.
- Develop and manage master purchase agreements with suppliers. Conduct high-level discussion and secure comprehensive agreements with supplier executives.
- Lead cross-functional teams while growing and maintaining a high level of industry expertise and supplier/market conditions.
- Manage supplier relationships and performance in technology alignment, cost, quality, delivery and resiliency.
- Interface with engineering for early engagement and roadmap alignment and lead supplier selection for Tape Storage.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Sunnyvale, CA |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1998 |
| Website | https://goo.gle/4dbno6V |
Benefits
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
About Company
Build for everyone
Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.
It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.
So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.
Benefits
We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.
Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.
How we Hire
Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.
Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Business Administrationunmatched
- Category Managementunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Commodity Managementunmatched
- Contract Negotiationunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Cost Modelingunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Disk Managementunmatched
- Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)unmatched
- Hard Drivesunmatched
- Industry/Trade Analysisunmatched
- Manufacturing Assemblyunmatched
- Network Operations Centerunmatched
- Operations Researchunmatched
- Performance Managementunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Quality Assurance Methodologyunmatched
- Sourcing Strategyunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Supplier Optimizationunmatched
- Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)unmatched
- Supply Chainunmatched
- Supply Chain Managementunmatched
- Tape Backupunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Total Cost of Ownershipunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Planningunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
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