Regional Commercial Manager, Data Center Delivery
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of experience in program or project management.
- Experience with construction and project management, developing and managing budgets (including capital budget justification), contract management, strategy development, and quantitative analysis.
Preferred qualifications:
- 10 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Knowledge of contracts, contract law, and claims management processes and procedures.
- Knowledge of construction costs drivers, methods of measurement (basis of pricing), and how to influence them.
- Expertise in procurement planning and procurement policy, with excellent supplier management skills.
- Excellent communication skills, with ability to lead, influence, coach, facilitate, build teamwork, and deliver results.
About the job
A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
As the Regional Commercial Manager, you will manage a team of construction project managers in order to proactively drive the construction procurement and contracting stages of Strategy development and localization (initiation), Procurement Planning, Bid/Evaluate/Negotiate, and supplier performance management (Execution).
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.
Responsibilities
- Provide expertise in construction contracting methods and compensation methodologies, understanding the relationship between contractual responsibilities and assignment of risk, and a thorough understanding of the relationship between construction costs, quality, and schedule.
- Advocate standard business processes, ensure compliance with corporate fiscal, legal, environmental, and risk management policies in order to minimize and limit corporate liability, manage risk, and optimize value.
- Maintain strong vendor and supplier relationships and participate in high-level negotiations for major contracts.
- Develop and maintain supplier performance metrics and quarterly reporting, and identify improvement actions that enable continuous learning.
- Collaborate with and drive the integration of other strategies such as, prefab, preassembly, modularization and off-site fabrication, and low-cost sourcing of equipment and strategic materials that reduce cost and delivery.
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