Manufacturing Business Manager

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in CM/JDM management or supply chain management.
• Experience with cost modeling and negotiation.

Preferred qualifications:

• 6 years of experience in consumer hardware product development and mass production.
• Experience interpreting legal documents and working with legal teams to complete commercial negotiations, with a familiarity of international business customs.
• Experience with managing JDM development programs.
• Track record of strong negotiation, establishing impactful partnership, and executive relationship management.
• Ability to lead and drive change management by influencing a broad range of key stakeholders during fast paced NPI cycles.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as needed.

About The Job
In this role, you will be responsible for sourcing, business award, contracting, and commercial negotiations with external manufacturing partners for final assembly. Moreover, you will contribute to cross-project and cross-team collaborations of moderate to high complexity and scope, providing impact through the quality, accuracy, timeliness, and volume of your work. This will help maintain strategic partnerships that enable and scale the wearables and home portfolio.

You will collaborate closely with Sourcing colleagues, Program Management, Engineering, Operations, Planning, Finance, Legal and other teams to execute partnership strategies and program requirements. You will then contribute to the partnership framework from start to finish by engaging with potential partner candidates, building consensus, negotiating all costs and agreements, and ensuring that manufacturing partners deliver results. In short, you will serve as a commercial liaison between suppliers or vendors and internal stakeholders.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's lives better through technology.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Contract Manufacturer (CM)/Joint Development Manufacturer (JDM) strategy and implement supplier management processes with critical partners.
• Manage the implementation of RFx processes for sourcing needs and own the agreement creation process.
• Manage assigned Contract Manufacturers to program requirements in cost, quality, schedule, and technology areas.
• Develop cost models of assemblies/products (MVA) and lead negotiations from inception to contracting phase, driving continuous cost optimization.
• Support engineering and operations escalations, and report on cost performance and supply chain risk.

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 Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .