Acquisition Program Manager - JhbFull job descriptionMinimum qualifications:Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.Candidates will typically have 2 years of experience in program or project management.Candidates will typically have 2 years of experience with agreement negotiation, cost negotiations, cost analysis, and vendor management.Candidates will typically have 2 years of experience working in global networking project management or network infrastructure acquisition of dark fiber and bandwidth services.Preferred qualifications:Candidates will typically have 5 years of experience in network asset negotiations and planning including dark fiber, bandwidth services, layer 3 interconnect, collocation and data centers.Experience in performing data-driven network availability and resiliency analysis.Ability to negotiate agreement with vendors, partners and suppliers.Ability to travel up to 25% of the time as needed.Excellent financial skills including network present value calculations, agreement structuring, and return on investment analysis.About the jobA 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.Our goal is to build a Google that looks like the world around us — and we want Googlers to stay and grow when they join us. As part of our efforts to build a Google for everyone, we build diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and we aim to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout the company.Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.ResponsibilitiesDevelop long-term relationships with key commercial partners including telecommunications companies, network carriers and colocation operators for the purposes of managing our strategies of asset acquisition, edge-network pen testing, and Cloud partnerships.Identify, evaluate and acquire metro and long haul dark fiber assets. Design and build a new infrastructure solution through joint projects or separately.Coordinate with global planning teams to develop strategic roadmaps that guide long-term asset acquisition strategies.Support local engineering programs as related to network infrastructure developmentGoogle is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.Report job
