Strategy and Operations Planning Manager, Go-to-Market

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate advisory in a technology/media company or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience owning and managing projects.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA, Master's degree, or equivalent practical experience in a technical, quantitative, or a business field.
• Experience managing senior stakeholder relationships and working cross-functionally within global organizations.
• Ability to understand and articulate to executive teams, while maintaining attention to execution details.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to facilitate meetings with executives and business partners across multiple functions in an organization.
• Excellent problem-solving and prioritization skills.
• Excellent program management skills with ability to manage multiple projects.

About the job

The Global Business Strategy and Operations (GBS&O) team is responsible for providing insightful review, perspective and direction on the strategy and operating performance of Google's Global Business Organization (GBO). Our mission is to architect and accelerate the transformation of our Global Business Organization (GBO).

The function comprises critical strategic and operational teams that accelerate Google's performance including a) the Organizational Strategy and Business Operations team that supports Google's Chief Business Officer and Chief Operating Officer b) go-to-market strategy and analytics, c) Risk and Compliance, d) Ads Policy operations and, e) Product strategy and operations go-to-market.

GBS&O is part of the Global Go-to-Market (GTM) organization that ensures Google's complex business is pursuing the best strategy and executing flawlessly. Team members are experts in business strategy and operations.

This is a great opportunity to apprentice with and learn from senior leaders and work with them to address both the top challenges and opportunities for our business, and be in the "room where it happens" when decisions are made. You can play both an advocate (successfully amplifying and executing on initiatives) and Challenger (bringing in new perspectives and leading change management) roles with our stakeholders.

The Global Business Strategy (GBS) team helps make Google's complex business organization run smoothly. The group drives core planning activities and develops frameworks to integrate global business strategies across the Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships organizations. Experts in both Google's go to market organization and the industries where we compete, they drive strategic and operational improvements while working closely with Senior Leadership on a range of critical initiatives and projects. The GBS team is at the forefront of addressing the Business organization's most strategic priorities, reporting and working directly for Google's Chief Business Officer.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $174,000-$261,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities

• Support the Organizational Strategy and Business Operations team for GBO and GTM.
• Deliver strategy projects and initiatives for executives (including for Senior Vice President of GBO, Vice President of GTM), support executive engagements and communications, lead Annual planning activities, support shaping the agenda for cadence of executive meetings.
• Partner with teams across GBO, GTM, and cross-functional stakeholders including Finance, PeopleOps, Communications.