Program Manager - Supply Chain & Procurement
Meta

Job Info

Meta's data centers are the foundation upon which our products serve our users. Building and operating our mission critical infrastructure the "right way" from break ground to go live is synonymous with ensuring capacity availability and capital conservatism. Architecting, constructing, operating and innovating the telecommunications and structured cabling infrastructure within our data centers is fundamental to ensuring high availability, the capacity to meet our extreme growth demands and obtaining the most robust and cost effective online service in the world!The successful candidate will spearhead data driven Market Intelligence (MI) that identifies and mitigates Meta's Data Center construction deployments. By leveraging readily available market reports and by working closely with cross functional partners, external contractors, suppliers, and consultants, the selected candidate will maintain a constant pulse on both labor and commodity market trends, risks, and mitigations; with a focus on market, volatility, scarcity, and competition.Ultimately, they will inform decision making by providing recommendations to key cross functional leaders leveraging quarterly market intelligence reporting and a market intelligence forum, ensuring supply chain readiness for predictable and reliable delivery of data center capacity. This role is a full-time position supporting North American operations, with expected travel of ~25%. Managing stakeholders located across all regions and time zones is key to the success in this role.

Program Manager - Supply Chain & Procurement Responsibilities:

• Act as a strategic partner, hosting a quarterly Market Intelligence forum, which provides insights, identifies key risks, provides recommendations and mitigations that drives actionable decision-making across the organization.
• Develop strategies to derisk the supply chain including fostering deep relationships within the subcontractor and supplier community to get ahead of supply chain challenges.
• Interface with stakeholders, including capacity planning teams, preconstruction managers, category managers, external contractors and suppliers, and consultants to produce required deliverables
• Spearheads early engagement with Data Center Engineering and Construction execution teams and external partners
• maintaining a solid service approach focused on the Voice of the Customer (VoC)
• Forecasts and prepares hypothetical scenario models for commodities and labor aligned to project delivery needs, identifying and creating mitigation plans for rare or volatile markets/commodities.
• Deep understanding of readily available market reports and demonstrated ability to rapidly distill both quantitative and qualitative information/data.
• Timely delivering of critical market information by performing cadenced research and reporting sprints.
• Utilizes surveys, polling, and network of industry contacts to derive leading edge market signals.
• Leverages formal dashboarding and reporting tools to effectively share insights and data.
• Creates compelling presentations and confidently conveys insights through storytelling.
• Embraces ambiguity of project parameters and changing project limitations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in business analytics, construction management, or an equivalent technical degree.
• Minimum of 10 years progressive responsibility in commercial management, go-to-market strategy, project management, supply chain, or sourcing, with a focus on strategic planning, risk management, and data-driven decision-making.
• Proven project management skills, with the experience to manage multiple time-sensitive projects under strict deadlines
• Experience managing multi-group, multi-disciplinary development projects, data centers, live mission critical facilities or similar technical construction projects.
• A team player working as an individual contributor with the experience of influencing without authority.
• Proven track record of establishing team goals and meeting project objectives and deadlines.
• Self-motivated and execution oriented. Experience in executing at a high level of quality in a fast paced, ever-changing environment.
• Effective skills in G-suite, Microsoft Office software, including Word, Excel, Sharepoint, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, and a demonstrated capacity to learn new (proprietary) systems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters of Business Administration (MBA) or Advanced degree preferred.
• Data center, advanced technology, or other mission critical construction experience.
• Experience working for General Contractors or with General Contractors for a client/owner.
• Project Management Professional certification.
• Lean Six Sigma Experience.

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