Senior Director, Commodity Management, Strategic Sourcing/Silicon Operations
About The Position
As the Senior Director, Global Commodity Management, Systems and Memory, you will lead the strategic sourcing and commercial management of key system and memory products and suppliers critical to Google's internal and public cloud infrastructure. You will directly partner with Google’s Platforms and Infrastructure Engineering teams and Cloud Supply Chain Operations team to secure optimal commercial outcomes from our most important suppliers. Your leadership in this partnership will be instrumental in enabling Google's most advanced platforms and programs. Your core responsibilities will be to define and own the long-term strategic vision for global systems & memory strategic sourcing. You will lead executive-level discussions with critical systems & memory suppliers, and forge strategic alignment with internal partners in engineering, quality, and supply chain. Your role is pivotal in steering business-critical decisions through advanced analysis and providing sourcing excellence across Google to secure our technological advantage for years to come. 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- 20 years of experience managing budgets across hardware commodities.
- 15 years of industry experience in two or more of the following disciplines: engineering/engineering management, project management, supply chain management, commodity management.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Engineering or MBA.
- Experience working in complex end to end (plan/NPI/source/make/deliver/PLM) supply chains.
Responsibilities
- Develop and advocate for the long-term strategic vision for systems and memory, that secures Google's technological advantage.
- Architect complex, multi-year agreements that shape Google's long-term partnerships with critical suppliers.
- Establish the vision for supplier relationship management.
- Scan external environments for emerging trends that drive dramatic improvements in supplier quality.
- Direct the function's commercial and financial analysis to guide strategic decisions.
- Lead development, documentation, and implementation of standardized sourcing, supplier relationship management methodologies, tools, and processes.
- Drive executive-level alignment with senior leadership across engineering, quality, and supply chain.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
