Strategy & Operations Lead, gTech

Job Description

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in management consulting, investment banking, program management or equivalent experience at a technology firm
• Experience structuring analysis and delivering communication to executive stakeholders and broader organization

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA or graduate degree, or equivalent practical experience
• Problem-solving skills, with experience executing complex strategic and operational initiatives
• Experience in analytical and problem solving skills coupled with excellent business acumen
• Proficiency in SQL (basic to intermediate level)
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams to design processes and implement strategic projects that solve business problems
• Ability to network, and work across various business functions and influence different stakeholders

About the job

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic 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.

The EMEA gTech Go-To-Market (GTM) team provides business critical insights, ensures cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic 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 support and co-lead multiple strategic and/or operational initiatives at EMEA or cluster-level for the gTech Professional Services Organization. You will work in direct partnership with business leaders and your GTM team members to ideate, scope and land key initiatives.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

Responsibilities

• Lead gTech Professional Services regional strategy and operations initiatives, including key projects, in collaboration with gTech, Sales and other strategy teams, Central gTech GTM and other cross-functional teams
• Bring operational insights to the regional gTech leadership team, helping to identify operational challenges and opportunities
• Collaborate with global, local and cross-functional teams to set and measure achievement goals and support resourcing asks
• Provide insightful data-driven strategic recommendations to leadership, based on analysis, experience, technical acumen and good judgment
• Maintain cross-functional relationships and partnerships, ensuring solid engagement across all initiatives and proactively driving operational efficiency

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