CPE Supply Chain Planning Lead

About GFiber: GFiber is an elite, internationally recognized telecommunications software and network infrastructure pioneer, Alphabet subsidiary ecosystem leader, and gigabit broadband innovator on an absolute mission to bring Google Fiber and Google Fiber Webpass internet services to homes and businesses across the United States. By engineering advanced, next-generation fiber-optic and wireless network architectures, GFiber drives digital inclusion, empowers community innovation, and transforms how modern society experiences the web. Composed of an expansive, high-agency distributed workforce, the organization unifies cloud-scale logistics networks with data-driven network automation. GFiber promotes a workplace culture deeply committed to long-term career growth, professional belonging, and inclusion, providing individual contributors with the ultimate data canvas to confidently solve real-world connectivity challenges.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly analytical, systems-minded CPE Supply Chain Planning Lead to join our core global Supply Chain Management (SCM) team in a full-time remote capacity within the United States. As GFiber aggressively drives expansion strategies into net-new markets, you will claim absolute individual accountability for leading the Sales, Inventory, and Operational Planning (SIOP) lifecycles for critical Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and network engineering hardware. Moving entirely beyond transactional procurement tracking or simple shipping logs, you will steer an intensive consensus forecasting program that reconciles multi-million-dollar capital budgeting targets directly with sales, product, and engineering demand patterns. This high-leverage seat demands a seasoned operations orchestrator with 10+ years of planning background who handles OEM vendor negotiations under friction, mitigates material write-off risks, and governs complex data models inside SAP ERP environments seamlessly.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End SIOP Lifecycle Governance: Own, configure, and execute the Sales, Inventory, and Operational Planning framework for all consumer router boxes, network terminations, and physical hardware assets.
• Consensus Forecast Program Management: Build and maintain cross-functional demand models, unifying data inputs from Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Finance, and Engineering circles to align with central capital budgeting loops.
• OEM Vendor Triage and Pricing Negotiations: Manage global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), driving strategic pricing negotiations, monitoring SLA operational performance, and managing hardware market share distribution.
• Supply Chain Disruption De-Risking: Map potential logistical bottlenecks, investigate lead-time deviations, and formulate tactical backup sourcing strategies to eliminate customer deployment delays.
• Excess and Obsolete (E&O) Ingestion Management: Track active inventory turnover parameters aggressively, optimizing safety stock buffers to minimize financial wastage and prevent obsolete inventory accumulations.
• New Product Introduction (NPI) Balancing: Plan and execute technical product introduction loops, ensuring zero inventory gaps and friction-free product handovers during transitions from legacy technology to next-generation hardware.
• ERP Logistics Ecosystem Control: Oversee, maintain, and audit extensive corporate inventory ledgers, stock data inputs, and warehouse management pipelines natively leveraging SAP software environments.
• Spreadsheet Model Optimization: Refactor, audit, and validate complex demand capacity matrices, forecasting sheets, and transactional data variables utilizing advanced functions inside Spreadsheets (Excel/Google Sheets).

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 10+ years of verified professional history running advanced Demand Planning, Sales Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP), technical corporate procurement, or global logistics architecture tracking.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience driving capital budgeting coordination, financial capacity forecasting, or enterprise resource allocation matrices.
• 7+ years of commercial history overseeing supplier relations management, conducting contract negotiations, or governing multi-national vendor SLAs.
• 7+ years of deep, production-tested operational command tracking inventory registries and material flows natively utilizing SAP or closely related configuration management software.
• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, or a closely related STEM field of study (or equivalent hands-on practical experience).
• Outstanding verbal, written, and cross-functional leadership mechanics, showing an absolute capacity to manage through influence and communicate technical supply data transparently to executive stakeholders.
• Geographical Alignment and Mobility: Pre-existing legal right to work within the United States, paired with full readiness to support domestic domestic travel requirements up to 15% of the time for corporate sessions.

Preferred Strategic Indicators (Nice to Have)

• Prior experience managing supply chain logistics, equipment refurbishment parameters, or returns-and-reuse lifecycles specifically within a major telecommunications, internet provider, or cloud hardware ecosystem.
• Practical exposure utilizing premium advanced demand planning software suites, notably **Blue Yonder, o9, or Kinaxis** engines.
• Familiarity with telecommunications infrastructure compliance, hardware importing regulations, or federal electronic product constraints.
• Prior background applying data scraping or automated analytics modeling to optimize warehouse network nodes.

What We Offer

• Attractive Alphabet-Tier Base Salary Grid: A highly competitive full-time annual baseline salary range structured transparently between $157,600 – $213,400 USD per year, supplemented by target performance bonus opportunities and corporate equity structures (final amounts calibrated precisely by targeted geographic location).
• The exceptional professional canvas to directly direct, shape, and deploy the automated logistics and planning engines powering high-speed internet delivery for millions of users across the United States.
• Profound work-from-home remote parameters offering high lifestyle flexibility, complete schedule trust, and zero physical office geographical commuting friction within the USA.
• Immediate eligibility to enroll in comprehensive premium medical, dental, and vision health coverage platforms.
• Access to robust group retirement planning, including corporate-supported retirement program options containing structured employer contributions.
• Generous paid time off allocations, paid holiday provisions, and dedicated candidate accommodation frameworks to ensure optimal lifestyle health.