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This role is part of the Spares Supply Chain team and will be accountable for the sourcing, planning, positioning, and delivery of critical spares - assuring that data centers have their spare parts available to them when they need them. This role and peer roles on this team are critical to keeping our data centers running worldwide. As a Spares Program Manager, you are responsible for ensuring supply chain spares readiness for our data centers, with specific attention to NPI product intake, cross-functional alignment, and upstream engagement with construction teams to drive spares initiatives. This includes understanding supply chain risks due to timing, new designs, and accelerations - and building and executing on supply chain strategies to ensure spares readiness as a data center goes live and stays running.\nGoogle Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. 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