Strategy and Operations Manager, Northern Europe (Fixed-Term Contract)

Strategy and Operations Manager, Northern Europe (Fixed-Term Contract)

This is a 12 month Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) role.

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in sales or marketing, with the ability for making pragmatic decisions when implementing initiatives with the sales team.
• Ability to identify business issues and opportunities by taking customer needs in consideration, thinking creatively about solutions and creating well-structured plans for them by weighing risks.
• Ability to lead operational and strategic initiatives and engage with stakeholders, navigate ambiguity.
• Ability to be a collaborator within the team to influence and build relations across various Google functions.
• Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated ability to break down priorities into clear, actionable steps, to allow for timely execution.

About the job

As a part The Go-to-Market Operations (GTM) team, you will help ensure Google's ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly, contributing to setting go-to-market strategy, driving flawless execution and operations against the strategy, and working alongside teams embedded across major Ads business areas and global functions.

As a part of the Business Strategy and Operations organization, you will provide business-critical insights through analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, support partnerships and new initiative. You will 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.

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 Sales Strategy.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate professional relationships with executive leadership, providing an unbiased perspective on business issues and opportunities while serving as both a advocate and challenger to the business partners.
• Oversee the delivery of sales Planning for the region, from annual Objectives and Key Results (OKR)-setting, to quarterly activation and communication.
• Lead sales enablement initiatives for the region, including operational excellence programs, capability and coaching investments, and manager communities.
• Establish and drive management teams by providing structured governance and support to high-impact communications to the teams they manage, including regional Town Halls.
• Manage or support initiatives across markets, functions and product areas including influencing and aligning stakeholders across EMEA sales enablement communities.

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. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .

Key skills/competency

• Strategy and Operations
• Sales Strategy
• Go-to-Market Operations
• Business Analysis
• Cross-functional Alignment
• Stakeholder Management
• Sales Enablement
• Operational Excellence
• Problem Solving
• Communication Skills