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Program Manager, Supply Chain, NPI Fleet Transitions

Program Manager, Supply Chain, NPI Fleet Transitions

1 Month ago • 5 Years + • Product Management

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Job Description

This Program Manager role at Google focuses on Supply Chain and NPI (New Product Introduction) Fleet Transitions. Responsibilities include working cross-functionally to ensure smooth technology transitions with minimal disruption, developing transition strategies and multi-scenario planning during NPI life cycles, managing change events, collaborating on process optimization, and building relationships with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate possesses strong program/project management skills, experience with NPI, demand/supply planning, and the ability to adapt to changing situations. They should excel at influencing without direct authority, working across siloed teams, and facilitating agile decision-making. The role demands excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to orchestrate execution across multiple functional teams.

Must have:

5+ years program/project management experience
Experience with NPIs, demand/supply planning
Cross-functional collaboration skills
Ability to influence without authority
Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills

Good to have:

Experience with NPI operations
Agile decision-making skills
Experience with change event management

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in program or project management.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with New Product Introductions (NPI), demand planning, supply planning, NPI operations, with the ability to adapt due to the changing nature of NPI.
Ability to influence without direct authority, work across siloed domains, and facilitate agile decision making.
Ability to generate multiple scenarios, define corresponding plans of actions, adjust plans as unknown variables become known, and orchestrate closed loop execution across multiple functional teams.
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, with attention to detail.

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 goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.

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

Work cross-functionally to ensure technology transitions are landed with minimal disruption to capacity delivery to Product Areas.
Develop transition strategy, steer multi-scenario transition planning during NPI product life-cycle phases, and execute transition landing into the fleet at scale.
Develop relationships with partner teams to drive alignment and structured communication across multiple organizational stakeholders.
Drive closed loop change event management (e.g., detection, impact analysis, re-planning, and execution of plans of record) across all relevant systems of record and teams.
Collaborate cross-functionally, drive development and optimization of product transition processes and tools to automate and scale, partner across teams involved in management of the product life-cycle to ensure comprehensive and coordinated execution of transition plans.

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A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.