Strategy and Operations Lead

Strategy and Operations Lead

Google is seeking a Strategy and Operations Lead to join their team. This role involves providing business-critical insights, ensuring cross-functional alignment, driving strategic partnerships, and fostering sustainable business growth. The ideal candidate will be experienced in business strategy and operations, analytical, strategic, pragmatic, and results-oriented.

About the Role

The Google Customer Solutions (GCS) sales teams are dedicated to helping small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) thrive by leveraging Google's resources. As a member of this team, you will work directly with business owners, making a significant impact on their growth and helping shape the future of innovation for customers, partners, and sellers.

Responsibilities

• Draw interpretable insights from sophisticated business analyses and advanced modeling.
• Help organize and facilitate core business planning, operating cadences, and leadership engagement to achieve organizational outcomes.
• Define comprehensive sales, product, or business strategies that solve business issues and address the needs of customers and stakeholders across various functions to drive incremental growth.
• Perform comprehensive research and analysis on market trends, customer behaviors, and competitive positions to identify opportunities to scale operations and drive maximum value for the business.
• Deliver polished presentations with data-driven insights and a strategic narrative to influence executives to adopt recommended strategies.
• Define actionable plans and roadmaps, align cross-functional stakeholders, and lead successful implementation of large and complex change initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, or corporate advisory role.
• 3 years of experience working with executive stakeholders.
• 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Master's degree.
• 2 years of experience generating insights from analysis on large data sets to drive business decisions.
• Experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• Experience in advertising, consultative sales, business development, or a digital media environment for a complex organization.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to take complex, ambiguous topics and turn them into compelling narratives for different audiences.
• Structured problem-solving skills, combined with strong business acumen.

Work Location Preferences

Preferred working locations include Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Key skills/competency

• Business Strategy
• Operations Management
• Data Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Problem Solving
• Strategic Planning
• Business Development
• Financial Modeling
• Executive Communication