Senior Manager, Operations and Supply Chain

About the role

Product and Business Strategy Leaders bring together teams across Google’s functions to help products execute optimally. Our team pushes Google to scale at key points that refine our products and infrastructure by executing efficiently, bringing solid business sense and sound judgment, and working effectively across organizational lines. Our roles often include components of strategy (e.g. analyzing and understanding new trends in the industry, building business plans), operations (e.g. running the cadence of organizations, connecting the operating lines between our functions), and communications. Our team partners with senior leadership to run important functions that cross-cut our existing organizations and deliver high impact projects. We help Engineers, PMs, UX, and all of our other functions to build amazing products that delight our users, and then get those products into their hands.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and measure key performance indicators (KPIs) related to Service Level Objective (SLO) achievement, safety adherence, and project/program delivery.
• Design and implement a comprehensive forward/reverse logistics strategy that aligns with the organization's long-term goals.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings, Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) reduction, and capacity optimization through innovative logistics solutions.
• Evaluate the current organizational effectiveness of the Logistic team and identify areas for improvement.
• Build and implement a talent development program to enhance the skills and capabilities of team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain operations, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 13 years of experience in supply chain, operations, or related fields (including third-party logistics (3PL) supplier management, warehouse/fulfillment, automation, and MRP/WMS/TMS systems) driving transformations, cost reduction, inventory optimization, and working capital improvements.
• 10 years of experience managing and developing managers.
• Experience managing end-to-end supply chain activities (planning, procurement, production, inventory, logistics, distribution) in environments such as manufacturing, 3PLs, omnichannel, regulated industries like pharma/biotech.

Qualifications

• Master's degree, MBA, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience leading Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Integrated Business Planning (IBP), or Demand and Operations Planning (D&OP) management.
• Experience with or active as a Toyota Production System (TPS) practitioner, lean leader, 5S or Gemba advocate, as well as digital tools, AI, advanced analytics and shop floor automation.
• Experience scaling operations and managing third-party logistics (3PL) labor across multiple sites.
• Proven track record in removing waste from and improving the velocity of material, information and people flow, as well as Safety and Compliance.

Skills

• Material flow and sequencing knowledge.
• Attention to safety, quality, delivery, cost and people (SQCDP).
• Leadership and management skills.
• Strategic planning and execution skills.
• Collaboration and communication skills.

Benefits

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $211000 - $294000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits