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.

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're always on call to keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Manage overall program supply chain readiness for raw material suppliers and contract manufacturers.
• Maintain high level of memory industry expertise and supplier/market conditions, develop and execute commodity strategies and influence change with Global Commodity Manager team in Sunnyvale.
• Drive overall program material readiness for engineering and mass production builds. Ensure smooth product transitions. Be the primary memory supply chain liaison with internal and external cross functional partners.
• Communicate supplier commits to contract manufacturers (CM). Track supplier shipments into CMs and submit receiving transactions. Follow up on open purchase orders with suppliers to ensure timely delivery and communicate with internal customers to resolve receiving and accounts payable discrepancies.
• Drive regular operations review with suppliers for continuous improvement. Drive initiatives and process improvements to help the team become more scalable.