Demand Manager, Infrastructure Data Center

Company: Facebook
Location: Lansing
Posted on: April 9, 2021

Job Description:

Intro: Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities - we're just getting started.Summary: At Facebook, we are committed to giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Its a simple mission with a powerful and compelling message. A key ingredient to achieving our overall mission is delivering the most cost-effective and performant cloud infrastructure in the world. Be it network hardware, compute or storage infrastructure, or our global footprint of data centers, we want to innovate in this space like no other and deliver the best infrastructure on the planet. This is a bold goal. But if it were not bold, then it wouldnt be us. Facebook designs, manufactures, delivers and operates its own cloud infrastructure. The product areas in which we innovate to deploy best-in-class equipment are compute servers, storage servers, database servers, network switches, fiber optic transceivers, transponders and cables, precision building infrastructure to support primary power distribution systems, backup power systems, and water and air filtration systems.Facebook is seeking a Demand Manager to own creation of planning bill-of-material (BoM) and align upstream & downstream planning activities for fiber, power and cooling equipment ensuring optimal availability - right equipment in the right place at the right time. The person will partner with key internal stakeholders to drive design release process, supplier allocation to future business and maintenance of approved product list. The person will leverage creativity to solve complex optimization problems in a scalable way and drive continuous improvement of demand planning processes by benchmarking against best practices. This full-time position is part of the Infrastructure Data Center Sourcing and Operations Engineering team.What is working at Facebook like? If you like fast-paced data-driven decision making, working collaboratively, acting on fact, creating your own future, decision making autonomy and building something new and different from scratch then this is the role and company for you. At Facebook, your role is as big as you define it to be. The impact you have on the business is determined by your appetite for homeruns, and your skills and capability.Required Skills:

• Lead creation of demand plan for fiber, power and cooling equipment for global new builds and retrofits, and for facility operations services for completed Data Center builds.
• Integrate with the engineering team in the design release process and lead creation of planning BoM and translate it to costed BoM.
• Partner with the Project Sourcing team to create Sourcing plans and Procurement logs for new projects.
• Partner with the Category Sourcing team to define allocation plans for constrained equipment, ensuring optimal business share allocation across geographies.
• Partner with another Demand Manager to keep all cross-functional partners informed on upcoming demand, capacity constraints, and schedules.
• Recommend how to improve demand planning systems to achieve greater efficiency & scale through process improvements and automation.
• Drive implementation & adoption of new capabilities.
• Work to improve data systems and develop new reporting tools & metrics to improve demand visibility & accuracy.Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree in business administration, engineering, or supply chain management.
• 7+ years of experience in supply chain fulfillment operations (forecasting, demand management, supply planning, order management, MPS/MRP, inventory control, logistics).
• Experience in collecting and analyzing information, problem-solve and driving solutions.
• Experience in business judgment and creating executive communication/presentations.Preferred Qualifications:
• MBA or Masters in Supply Chain.
• Experience using MRP/ERP systems.
• Knowledge of basic SQL and statistical concepts.
• Detail oriented, with experience communicating complex problems and solutions, strong drive to collaborate, strong bias for action to close out problems.
• Strong process/system background and experience understanding, using and driving improvements in new processes/systems rapidly.
• Experience in a hyper-scale Data Center space.
• Familiarity with ground-up construction and greenfield site development requirements.Industry: InternetEqual Opportunity: Facebook is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Facebook is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations-ext@fb.com.

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