Acquisition Program Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - Google
Description
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in performing datadriven 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 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.
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.
Responsibilities:
- Develop longterm relationships with key commercial partners including telecommunications companies, network carriers and colocation operators for the purposes of managing our strategies of asset acquisition, edgenetwork 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 longterm asset acquisition strategies.
- Support local engineering programs as related to network infrastructure development
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.
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