Solution Design Manager

Solution Design Manager

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

Responsibilities

• Help design solutions that enable our partners/product areas to succeed in their business objectives by optimizing operational costs cross-Alphabet, identify efficiencies and help to proactively mitigate risk and compliance across Alphabet.
• Identify opportunities to optimize operational costs across Google via building deep functional relationships with Product Areas and Vendor Management Organizations (VMOs) to influence extended workforce solution specific commercial, cost, category and supplier management strategy.
• Work with cross-functional stakeholders and leaders to gather data and conduct business analyses with effective project communication and management.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in a technical project management or a customer-facing role.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or Applied Science, or a related field.
• 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.
• Ability to drive impact in a fast-paced environment with excellent leadership skills.
• Ability to take complex, ambitious topics and create compelling narratives for different audiences with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to extract insights from complex, disparate and often unstructured datasets with excellent investigative skills.
• Proven track record of thought leadership in strategic projects that have had a tangible impact on business operations across international markets.

Key skills/competency

• Solution Design
• Project Management
• Business Strategy
• Cross-functional Initiatives
• Leadership
• Communication
• Data Analysis
• Risk Mitigation
• Cost Optimization
• Thought Leadership