Google welcomes people with disabilities. **Minimum qualifications:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. + 1 years of experience in supply chain, materials NPI and inventory management. + Experience in forecasting, planning, supply chain, materials management and implementing process improvements. **Preferred qualifications:** + Master's degree or equivalent practical experience. + Experience interacting with technical and non-technical groups, across all organizational levels. + Experience in automation and process improvements. + Experience with Google Sheets, SQL and scripting. + Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multiple levels of the organization. Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills. A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines. As a Supply and Material Planning Program Manager, you will be responsible for material supply planning, procurement and inventory management of our critical data center products and drive optimal planning decisions to enable customers meeting their objectives while balancing inventory. You will work closely with NPI, Demand Planning, Purchasing, Engineering, Fulfillment and agreement Manufacturing to develop and oversee the execution of the material plans through the product life cycle. You will use your problem-solving skills to establish and drive metrics, drive process and system improvements to accomplish efficiency and scalability goals and directly support our rapidly growing infrastructure at our global data centers. 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. **Responsibilities:** + Develop and implement a supply plan that positions materials to meet varied demand scenarios, from New Product Introduction to sustaining phases, while aligning with the business's objectives. + Develop and justify inventory buffer strategies that improve cost and flexibility. + Partner with cross-functional teams to procure materials and ensure availability to fulfill customer needs. + Drive cross-functional projects to implement new capabilities and improve existing ones across the organization. Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCP_EEO_Post.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.