Strategy and Operations Manager

About the job

The Go-to-Market Operations (GTM) team ensures Google's ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting GTM strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas and global teams that work across the business areas.

The Business Strategy and Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive partnerships and new initiatives forward.

We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

In this role, you will play a crucial role in helping the Northern Europe business acting as a key thought partner to regional leaders, directors and country managers, helping them shape, develop and drive the implementation of their business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Build relationship with executive stakeholders, foster collaboration, alignment, and a shared sense of purpose, while ensuring alignment across teams, product areas and global objectives, tailoring approaches to the unique needs and opportunities of your partnering team in line with GTM priorities.
• Identify ongoing growth opportunities and threats, develop plans to capitalize on opportunities and mitigate risks, while establishing efficient processes and workflows. Analyze key performance indicators, identify areas for improvement, and implement data-driven solutions to optimize performance.
• Develop comprehensive annual business plans in collaboration with your business partner, set ambitious goals and outline strategies for achieving them.
• Structure and lead operational improvement initiatives from initial recommendation to full implementation.
• Collaborate with the global GTM organization, and foster a culture of trust, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement within the team and our business partners.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 6 years of experience in a technology or consulting firm, or equivalent experience in finance, corporate strategy, or sales operations and strategy.

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge of the media and technology agency landscape and business models.
• Ability to create and execute well-structured project plans and demonstrate effective prioritization and pragmatic execution.
• Ability to identify business issues and opportunities by taking customer needs into consideration and creating well-structured plans while weighing risks.
• Ability to manage full project components and processes with limited guidance.
• Ability to build stakeholder relationships and navigate cross-functional, matrixed setups.
• Excellent problem-solving and business judgment skills, with the ability to communicate and present insights to executive business leaders.