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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of relevant large scale program/project management experience, including operating in complex matrix org structures across the globe
- 5 years of experience in setting up and improving processes through design thinking, lean or six sigma efforts
- Experience working with Contingent Workforce and Suppliers
Preferred qualifications:
- Extensive experience with outsourcing/offshoring including demand management, forecasting and vendor management
- Demonstrated personal accountability and integrity, and an ability to build strong, productive relationships across the business
- Ability to engage with senior level leadership effectively, facilitate discussions about complex topics, influence effectively, and reach agreement
- Proven ability to manage large complex programs and drive change.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with capability to process high amount of data to drive business strategies and decisions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to consult, influence, and manage clients
About the job
Google’s known for our innovative technologies, products and services — and for the people behind them. Whether you are making our staffing systems more efficient, planning for our growth, building relationships on college campuses or cultivating the next generation of computer scientists, you have an eye on the staffing needs of Google and the broader hiring landscape. You are focused on cultivating outstanding candidates for Google’s long-term hiring needs, and work across a cross-functional and international group of staffing teams. You are both scrappy and resourceful, creative and driven — and excited to share the magic of working at Google.
The Google People Services, Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) team manages end-to-end oversight of Google’s Extended (Contingent) Workforce. The xWS team is responsible for the strategy, governance, and operations across the Temp, Vendor and Contractor (TVC) space. Our team makes it easy for Google managers to engage with the contingent workforce, providing training, standards, and guidelines to minimize Google’s risk and offering data and insights on planning and strategy for new and existing engagements. We provide processes, tools and know-how to support Googlers through the lifecycle of contingent workforce engagements, so our businesses can make informed decisions to put the right talent in the right locations.
Great just isn’t good enough for our People Operations team (you probably know us better as “Human Resources”). Made up of equal parts HR professionals, former consultants, and analysts, we’re the advocates of Google’s colorful culture. In People Ops, we “find them, grow them, and keep them”. We bring the world’s most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy a global supply/demand forecasting process for infrastructure. Operate a pilot, assess findings, course correct and launch a full fledged global process in partnership with other Google ecosystem partners like facilities, IT, legal etc.
- Develop and deploy interface and standard global processes with ecosystem partners for medium to long term facilities expansions and build outs
- Work with our suppliers to create a view for global availability of their infrastructure build out that can be leveraged by Google programs to scale their operations
- Develop BI tools and databases for easy, relevant access to seat capacity and demand data by business/region/worktype and hold business areas accountable for occupancy levels
- Deliver Communication and Change Management strategy to keep users informed about new features, operational capabilities and improvements delivered