Materials Manager, Power & Cooling (PAC)

About the role

The Power & Cooling (PAC) team is seeking a results-oriented individual with strong business judgement skills and experience working with internal and external stakeholders to own material planning for Data Center Power & Cooling Equipment. Our Material Planning Managers are high-energy self-starters that are excited to work across different functions to deliver power and cooling equipment to our data centers globally.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end planning process for delivering power and cooling equipment in the assigned region.
• Drive the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process, which includes performing demand planning, supply planning, and ensuring there is interlock between demand and supply.
• Create and Drive use of AI for demand planning, forecasting and build planning.
• Develop dashboards and unified user interface for tracking build planning.
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for supply chain planning, forecasting demand, and coordinating procurement activities.
• Responsible for change management and coordinate changes to purchase orders and delivery schedules with global supply managers, sourcing managers, and internal customers.
• Partner with data center demand planning team to capture customer demand and plan for equipment delivery using supplier lead times.
• Responsible for tracking and mitigating risks related to material planning or equipment delivery.
• Own business reviews and metrics to support improved decision making and on-time deliveries across business partners and stakeholders.
• Identify factors impacting the timely communication of purchase orders.
• Own performance metrics covering on-time delivery, manufacturing lead times, shipping lead times, and for all builds within your regions.
• Be single point of contact for internal customers for long lead equipment planning and delivery.
• Resolve issues related to damaged, missing, or poor-quality deliveries requiring immediate replacements or field service.
• Lead cross-functional projects to meet commitments and objectives while managing plans.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to lower risks and reduce lead times.
• Influence partner processes, technologies, and policies to achieve mutual benefits for both organizations in a sustainable manner.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations experience
• 5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis experience
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related technical field
• Experience in procurement, supply chain, inventory management, contract management, lease administration or operations
• Experience in strategic sourcing including vendor negotiations, global contract management, process improvement, operational and financial analysis
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Advanced Excel, SQL, Tableau, Python
• Experience in global supply chain management, managing cross-functional teams in a fast-paced consumer electronics product company