Job Specifications
Company Description
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
This role will be hybrid in LinkedIn’s Mountain View, CA campus.
At LinkedIn, we’re hiring a Staff Supply Planner for planning and spend management function for our engineering infrastructure. This is a great opportunity to join a globally recognized company experiencing significant growth, and help contribute to the vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. With our successful core product offerings and expanding portfolio of innovative new products and features, our need for highly talented professionals has never been greater!
The successful candidate will help the Infrastructure Business Engineering team gather, analyze, and organize information in effort to continuously identify ways to improve Linkedin’s bottom line. They will help manage the budget, track industry and competitive trends, develop forecasting models and scenario analysis, examine performance, spot opportunities, identify threats, look for novel solutions, and develop creative action plans within Engineering. The candidate will focus on both long-term decisions and the prioritization of short-term actions.
Responsibilities:
Partner with leadership to provide business solutions that enable scalable and cost-effective growth of LinkedIn’s global infrastructure
Developing and maintaining detailed supply chain metrics and performance reports to identify areas for improvement and enhance operational efficiency.
Collaborating with project managers, procurement teams, and engineering staff to align supply planning processes with broader project objectives and timelines.
Forecasting demand for infrastructure materials and services by analyzing project timelines, historical data, and upcoming requirements to ensure supply meets project needs.
Managing inventory levels to maintain optimal stock while minimizing excess and obsolescence, ensuring availability of critical components without overstocking.
Proactively engage service owners to identify business needs and build business plans and cost models to understand financial impact and aid decision making
Help develop budget plans in partnership with FP&A and engineering managers
Partner with leaders to develop deep understanding of their technologies and business operations needs
Lead optimization initiatives, proactively supporting leaders in making optimized service total cost of ownership decisions
Drive transformational change to the way we manage business operations at LinkedIn through developing and implementing new solutions, systems, processes, and tools that focus on identifying and executing on cost optimization opportunities
Design, develop, and deploy operating framework to manage infrastructure business operations including all aspects of budget management with regular performance reviews
Lead monthly budget review process, collaborating with leadership to draw insights and develop appropriate action plans to meet budget targets
Refine and manage business operations metrics
Integrate budget with procure-to-pay processes and systems to ensure all purchases and payments link to plans, providing systematic way of cost transparency through automation
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
B.S./B.A. in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or business field, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of experience implementing and/or managing business operations solutions and projects in global infrastructure industry
3+ years of experience in management consulting, business strategy, financial planning & analysis, and/or budget management related to infrastructure operations
Preferred Qualifications:
MBA or Master’s degree in Engineering
Track record of exhibiting end-to-end ownership and efficient problem solving
Demonstrated ability to lead project teams, influence peers, senior management, and stakeholders, and deliver results in a cross functional environment
Proven track record of executing under tight deadlines and ensuring deliverable timelines are met
Working knowledge of financial concepts such as capital & opera
About the Company
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..
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