Logistics Operations Manager

Google

📍Waltham Cross, England, UK
Posted May 22, 2026

Job Overview

Position

Logistics Operations Manager

Company

Google

Location

Waltham Cross, England, UK

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4407617201

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Logistics, Operations, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • 5 years of experience working with, supervising, and managing third-party logistics relationships.

  • 5 years of experience managing warehousing and supply chain operations.

  • Experience in managing third-party vendors.

  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time as required.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's or MBA degree in a related field.

  • Certification in Project Management, or Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP).

  • Experience in quality control, inventory accuracy, safety, and security.

  • Knowledge of warehouse processes, including inbound and outbound operations, storage, and material handling.

  • Ability to apply structured thinking and logic to tasks, while providing innovative solutions to problems.

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.

In this role, you will be the leader of how Google optimizes daily logistics processes while incorporating current industry standards and best practices. You will be responsible for driving continuous process improvement recommendations, managing the implementation of changes within operations, standardizing user documentation, creating processes that motivate action, and interacting with all partner teams. You will initiate and oversee operational improvement efforts for the EMEA Google Cloud logistics, analyze operational impacts to inform improvements, work with key stakeholders, motivate innovation within the operational teams, and create presentations or documents for the leadership team highlighting operational performance and improvements.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

  • Manage data center logistics daily operations by leading third-party partners with associates on their teams, including completing logistics tasks within Service Level Objective (SLO), regular metrics reviews and management, quarterly business reviews, escalation management, and collaboration with partner teams.

  • Manage and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPI), vendor performance scorecards and develop business cases to support logistics changes or improvements. Drive alignment and prioritization of initiatives in a fluid environment with many inter-dependencies.

  • Manage third-party logistics cost, including reviewing invoices, and spend control.

  • Develop productive and meaningful relationships with all key internal business partners to innovate on key programs to improve speed, productivity, and quality of execution.

  • Manage a third-party logistics team and lead by example in safety commitments to ensure logistics operations are completed safely.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. 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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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How do you approach setting up and managing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and vendor scorecards for third-party logistics providers to ensure they meet Service Level Objectives (SLOs)?
  • 2.Describe your process for managing 3PL costs, specifically focusing on invoice review and spend control in a data center logistics environment.
  • 3.What are the critical warehouse processes you focus on when optimizing inbound and outbound operations for high-value tech hardware, and how do you ensure inventory accuracy?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you had to drive alignment and prioritization of logistics initiatives in a fluid environment with many inter-dependencies.
  • 2.Describe a situation where you had to manage an underperforming third-party logistics vendor to improve their execution and meet safety or quality standards.
  • 3.Give an example of a time you applied structured thinking to solve a complex logistics problem and provided an innovative solution.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You receive an escalation that a critical delivery for a data center build is delayed at a 3PL facility, which will cause an SLO breach. How do you handle this?
  • 2.Leadership asks you to standardize user documentation and create a presentation highlighting operational performance and improvements for the EMEA Google Cloud logistics team. How do you approach this?

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3PL managementsupply chain operationsKPIs and scorecardsvendor managementdata center logisticscost controlSLOcontinuous improvementsafety complianceinventory accuracycross-functional collaborationwarehouse operations

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