Program Manager III, Spares Planning, Data Center Equipment

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

* 5 years of experience in program or project management.

* Experience in spares planning.

* Experience in supply/demand planning within a data center or manufacturing

environment.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.

* Experience partnering with hardware engineering, design, and New Product

Introduction (NPI) teams to translate early product signals, engineering

changes, and Bill of Materials (BOMs) into actionable spares requirements.

* Experience utilizing and optimizing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), or advanced supply chain planning systems

to automate workflows and manage demand signals.

* Background in data center infrastructure, mission-critical environments, or

high-tech manufacturing, with a solid grasp of component mortality rates,

cut-in logistics, and interim supply strategies.

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.

At Google, we own and operate the most advanced fleet of data centers and core

technical infrastructure to power services and features used by billions of

people around the world. Data Centers - Central Operations is responsible for

keeping these sites operating efficiently and safely. This role is part of the

Spares Supply Chain team and will be accountable for the sourcing, planning,

positioning, and delivery of critical spares - assuring that data centers have

their spare parts available to them when they need them. This role and peer

roles on this team are critical to keeping our data centers running worldwide.

As a Spares Program Manager, you are responsible for ensuring supply chain

spares readiness for our data centers, with specific attention to NPI product

intake, cross-functional alignment, and upstream engagement with construction

teams to drive spares initiatives. This includes understanding supply chain

risks due to timing, new designs, and accelerations - and building and executing

on supply chain strategies to ensure spares readiness as a data center goes live

and stays running.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its

business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage

Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more

sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google

Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical

business problems.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills,

experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google

[https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/].

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Create & enforce structured governance processes with upstream NPI & sourcing

partners to establish clear spares requirements during the initial phases of

onboarding a new product or supplier. 

* Apply systems thinking to analyze the end-to-end spares pipeline, proactively

identifying structural gaps, process friction, or signal handoff failures,

and build robust, scalable processes to resolve them on both a strategic and

execution level.

* Leverage cross-functional relationships to influence upstream stakeholders,

driving the onboarding of NPI products and their unique spares requirements

into standard planning, sourcing, and replenishment workflows.

* Anticipate upcoming supply chain risks, component constraints, and/or design

cut-in accelerations, and collaborate cross-functionally to execute

mitigation strategies to position inventory.

* Partner closely with other teams and ensure that the right spare parts are

physically in place at both current and future data center sites.