Senior Leadership Technical Program Manager, Demand Supply Planning

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in program management.
• 8 years of experience in demand, inventory, and supply chain planning.
• 7 years of experience managing supply chains for project-based hardware.
• 7 years of experience in leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.
• 5 years of experience with Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) principles or SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience managing cross-functional/team projects.
• Experience working with or managing supply chain operations for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) or similar on-premise/hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Experience in life cycle management for IT hardware (Compute, Network, Storage), including New Product Introduction (NPI), End-of-Life (EOL) management, and planning.
• Ability to influence executive stakeholders.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

The Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) team is dedicated to establishing a supply chain that is as resilient as the cloud itself, connecting innovation to execution by building global partnerships and accelerating time-to-market for the hardware that delivers Google's compute, AI, and capabilities to customers everywhere, including their own data centers and locations. The supply chain effort is driven by two roles: the Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager, who is responsible for leading sourcing and supplier strategy for OEM hardware (Compute, Network, and Storage) and system integration partners, and the Manager of GDC Demand and Supply Planning.

You will lead the planning function to ensure on-time global deployments by mastering project-level demand signals and translating them into material supply, fulfillment, and installation schedules. You will serve as the primary coordinator between sales/deployment and manufacturing/logistics.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Executive business and Operations Planning cycle to align the project backlog, financial goals, and customer deployment capacity into a final supply plan.
• Define and implement the global Inventory management strategy, establishing appropriate stock locations, safety stock levels, and replenishment policies across all supply chain tiers.
• Oversee the translation of the global business pipeline into time-phased, and configured hardware demand signals while driving improvement in projects
• Direct the conversion of project demand into a master production schedule and material requirements plan, aligning build-to-order/configure-to-order assembly with customer installation windows.
• Reduce inventory days of supply and inventory carrying costs, while ensuring critical service level agreement fulfillment and mitigating deployment risks through scenario modeling.