Program Manager, NASA Buyout Strategy Lead
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- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Construction Management, a related field or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience with Pre-Construction (PreCon) management, commercial management, or project controls within the data center, heavy industrial, mission critical or construction industry.
- 8 years of experience managing the commercial process, including General Contractor (GC) buyout, competitive bidding, and negotiating agreements.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master’s degree or Professional certification in Construction Management or Supply Chain.
- 10 years of experience with deep domain expertise in hyperscale data center construction and procurement strategies.
- 10 years of experience in constraint modeling (e.g., labor, logistics planning) and managing dependencies during the initial project phases.
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.
The NASA Buyout Strategy Lead is a new, high-impact role responsible for establishing and driving consistency in the application of Project Controls during the critical pre-construction and project startup phases. This role is essential to reducing bureaucracy and achieving the Google Data Centers (GDC) North Star: Go Fast, Safely.
In this role, you will own the execution and standardization of commercial aspects of PreCon services planning, ensuring a robust foundation for every project. This role is a key change agent for ensuring consistency, which will directly reduce project risk and impact cost and schedule outcomes.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.US: $188000 - $275000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits
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Responsibilities
- Own the planning and standardization of commercial deliverables of the PreCon services, including governance.
- Drive the creation and implementation of a front-end execution plan at the commencement of projects, ensuring alignment on the project control plan for execution (what, when, how end to end).
- Provide critical project startup support and manage the structured transition of work to the site-based Sub-Region Project Controls teams.
- Lead negotiation of staffing and supply at the campus level, including procurement planning and recommendations for Letter of Negotiation (LON) / Sub-Project Contracts (SPC) and Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP).
- Ensure consistency in the application of core project control principles, driving alignment on assumptions, productivity, and delivery methodologies between baseline cost and schedule assessments.
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