Materials Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Drive material readiness for mass production builds in a balanced and sustained fashion.
• Ensure smooth product transitions. Be the primary material liaison with ODM/CM/Suppliers and New Product Introduction/Enterprise Performance Management internal to Google for product bring up and launch.
• Identify supply chain risks and mitigation steps to ensure material readiness one a product goes into mass production and through End of Life (EOL).
• Provide solutions to minimize the E&O.
• Communicate status risks and influence change. Drive initiatives and process improvements to help the team to become more scalable. Represent the materials organization in internal program meetings.
• Follow up on open purchase orders with vendors to ensure timely delivery and communicate with internal customers to resolve receiving and accounts payable discrepancies.
• May require some level of direct order placement using the Oracle Purchasing module.

Requirements:

• Manufacturing supply chain management experience.
• Expert of material production planning delivery and vendor management.
• Knowledgeable lean manufacturing techniques.
• Bias for action and change strong problem solving skills.
• Logical strong analytical skill.
• Experience use of MRP system and MS Office.
• Strong negotiation skills sourcing knowledge and experience.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Convincible leadership and experience of working in matrix report organization.