Thermal Global Strategic Sourcing Global Category Manager

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Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Business, or similar or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in global commodity management, sourcing, or hardware procurement.
• 2 years of experience drafting and negotiating agreements, supply agreements, and engineering development agreements.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical or Materials Science Engineering with a focus on thermodynamics or fluid dynamics.
• Experience sourcing thermal management solutions, liquid cooling hardware, cold plates, or high-volume mechanical components.

About the job

Commodity Managers work with Engineering teams to make sure Google has the supplies and equipment to put into production the innovative products coming from our Engineering teams. As a Commodity Manager, you use your wide industry knowledge and strategic supplier relationships to optimize our total cost of ownership for our global -- and growing -- infrastructure. The scale at which Google operates means that savings on just one piece of hardware can have a huge impact on Google's bottom line.

To architect a resilient and scalable thermal ecosystem that enables Google’s infrastructure through supply chain agility and operational excellence.

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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

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Responsibilities

• Secure highly reliable infrastructure, unlock structural cost savings, and protect Google’s critical data center deployment timelines.
• Balance high-level commodity sourcing strategies with direct, day-to-day execution and overall supplier performance management.
• Drive operational excellence by bridging the gap between early NPI engineering development, strict quality standards, and direct factory-floor process optimizations.
• Partner with and scale high-performing primary and sub-tier partners globally, ensuring readiness to meet capacity ramps.
• Serve as the strategic business owner and cross-functional leader scaling Google’s advanced liquid cooling and cold plate loop supply chain, managing the end-to-end commercial life-cycle for next-generation ML hardware.