Global Category Manager, Data Center Infrastructure

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or engineering field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in procurement and supply chain management.
• Experience in technical category management, contract negotiation and supplier development.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a Technical, or Engineering field, or MBA.
• Experience with large-scale industrial engineering and construction programs, preferably data centers.
• Experience working with general contractors, integrators and suppliers in a large infrastructure environment.

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.

The Equipment Supply Chain (ESC) organization is focused on Data Center Infrastructure and is responsible for planning, sourcing, supply chain, procurement and supplier management functions for data center power and cooling equipment.

ESC partners closely with Data Center Engineering and Construction Teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from the Engineering teams.

As a Global Category Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize the total cost of ownership for 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.

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.

• Deliver sourcing and supply chain objectives for New Products in the Data Center Infrastructure space.
• Develop and execute category strategies to achieve total cost of ownership, lead time, capacity, innovation and quality objectives for the products managed through close collaboration with Google cross-functional teams (engineering, quality, operations, finance, etc).
• Conduct complex strategic technology negotiations including comprehensive contractual agreements to deliver cost, lead time and capacity objectives for the organization.
• Implement supply chain and process improvements through supplier performance metrics, scorecards, business continuity plans and regular business reviews.