Is hybrid: No
Is remote: No
Employer: Google
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
London, UK; Dublin, Ireland.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in business strategy, sales operations, management consulting, or a related analytical field.
- Experience leading project components and managing timelines, goals, and objectives with limited guidance.
- Experience analyzing information to draw conclusions, generate solutions, and develop plans of action.
Preferred qualifications:
- Ability to evaluate a wide range of ambiguous problems using critical thinking to identify root causes and generate solutions.
- Ability to manage operational and strategic projects and collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to thrive and in a fast moving, ambiguous environment.
- Ability to problem-solve and analyze information to draw conclusions and generate solutions.
- Ability to communicate policies, ideas, and information, adapting the style depending on the audience and situation.
About the job
The Business Strategy and Operations team provides business insights, ensures cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. The team is focused on aligning the company priorities with day-to-day operations, and helping evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.
As a Senior Associate, you will help to develop business plans that ensure smooth regional operations across the large customer sales (LCS) business as well as develop solutions to ambiguous and high visibility business challenges. You will interact with key stakeholders, senior executives, and cross-functional leaders as you drive alignment, strategic change management, and overall communications. You will identify opportunities to drive better operational performance against the strategy.
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
- Develop hypotheses against opportunity areas or problem statements and test them with quantitative or qualitative analysis. Extract findings into insights that power the business and communicate recommendations.
- Assist in the development of processes and programs. Identify, define, and track metrics to ensure progress against business objectives.
- Identify areas of improvement to drive the business forward, helping to evaluate and scale process improvements across the business.
- Create project plans and prioritize tasks effectively to deliver projects in a high-quality and timely manner.
- Build relationships and partner across teams to develop business solutions. Help identify relevant stakeholders, understand their key priorities, and challenge them to achieve better outcomes.
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