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 Supply Chain Manager, you will use your industry knowledge and supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for Google Hardware. In this role, you'll also work on the custom supply chain for mechanical parts. You will execute the team’s material acquisition strategy and work closely with the Engineering and Operations teams to ensure material and part availability throughout the product life.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Only one thing consistently stands in the way between our users and the world's information—hardware. Our Consumer Hardware team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, more powerful, and seamless. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, our Consumer Hardware team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Execute on mechanical parts strategies developed jointly with Google's Hardware team.
• Drive suppliers to ensure material availability and readiness for the product builds and steady state production.
• Manage end-of-line decisions for mechanical components.
• Identify and execute on cost-down initiatives.
• Assist with new product ramps as requested.