Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Logistics, Operations, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience managing warehousing and supply chain operations.
- 5 years of experience working with, supervising, and managing third-party logistics relationships.
- Experience with Transportation Management System (TMS).
- Experience with multimodal transportation (e.g., air, road, ocean, rail).
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in a related field (e.g., Supply Chain Management, Business Administration).
- Experience leading logistics projects (e.g., system implementations, network optimisation, continuous improvement initiatives).
- Experience managing international freight, including customs procedures and import/export regulations.
- Experience using data and performance metrics to yield process improvements and cost savings.
- Experience presenting operational performance and cost analysis to business stakeholders.
- Knowledge of interpreting carrier rates, contracts, and tariffs.
About the job
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.
Our Google Cloud Logistics team is helping build Google's planet-scale computer powering all of Google's services (e.g., Cloud, Gmail, YouTube, Search). We manage critical parts of the supply chain to turn raw components into serving capacity in our data centers. Our team of experts collaborate on challenging problems daily across warehousing, transportation, global trade compliance and order management.
The Global Transportation and Sustainability team’s goal is to forge an operating model that seamlessly aligns with our CSCO and GCL objectives. This model will be an enabler for continuous improvement, driving 5-10% year-over-year cost efficiency while achieving a 98% on-time performance. Embrace technological advancements and propel our carrier strategy towards diversification while maintaining agility in responding to business needs.
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
- Own the day-to-day logistics operations management of multiple data center locations.
- Create, lead, and support cross-functional company initiatives/projects.
- Manage third-party logistics partners with associates on their teams dedicated to our account. Manage and monitor metrics for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), vendor performance scorecards, and development of business cases to support logistics process changes or improvements. Drive alignment and prioritization of initiatives in a fast-paced environment with many interdependencies.
- Manage quarterly budgets, invoice control, and capital improvement projects within your locations. Manage relationships with multiple internal customers at data centers.
- Recognize improvement opportunities to the cost or quality of services to be provided. Be proactive in turning these thoughts into a documented business case, present the business case to your peers and management for approval, and provide ongoing project management.