European Logistics Program Manager

European Logistics Program Manager

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus. As a Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating goals to project stakeholders. Your projects often span offices, time zones and hemispheres, and it's your job to keep all the players coordinated on the project's progress and deadlines.

Google's custom-designed machines make up one of the largest and most powerful computing infrastructures in the world, and the Global Logistics team procures and manages the resources that power our immense collection. As a part of this team, you apply your knowledge of supply chain principles and your problem solving prowess to key logistics processes (managing vendors, shipping and receiving, inventory management, warehousing and distribution, transportation, etc.). Your diligence ensures the global delivery and life cycle management of network equipment is timely and efficient. You help the networking material supply chain by understanding the unique needs of the deployment team and defining best practices across multiple cross-functional teams. The end result of your work is the delivery of Google's products and services to users around the world.

You manage and motivate a team to develop and manage project schedules, identify risks and then clearly communicate those risks to project stakeholders. You define problem solving and risk-mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution through the full project cycle.

Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to tackle some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From AdWords to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple 3rd Party Logistics locations across the region for consistent performance.
• Solve logistics problems with speed, accuracy and completeness.
• Lead 3rd Party Logistics partners to establish facts, solve complex problems, establish corrective action plans.
• Manage and monitor metrics for Key Performance Indicators and vendor performance scorecards.
• Build business cases to support any logistics changes or improvements.