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.