Business Analyst, Technical Program Management, Global Marine Operations

WeAreTechWomen; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead complex engineering projects. You will leverage your analytical skills to optimize business operations, ensuring data-driven decisions enhance user experience. This role requires strong technical expertise, project management abilities, and confidence in communicating insights to various stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in program management.
• 3 years of experience in a leadership role(s).
• Experience in analytics including spreadsheet analysis.

Responsibilities

• Create clear dashboards and reports presenting data insights.
• Analyze large datasets to identify trends and patterns.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements.

Skills

Analytical skills

Project management skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science or related field

Tools

SQL

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• Experience in analytics, including spreadsheet analysis, presentations, and data management.
• 3 years of experience in a leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience in Network Operations, OSS Systems, and Google Cloud Software implementation.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks, and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various engineering-specific programs and teams.

As an OSS Business Analyst at Google, you will play a crucial role in driving data-driven decisions and optimizing business processes. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, analyze data, and translate insights into actionable recommendations. Your work will directly contribute to improving efficiency, enhancing user experience, and supporting strategic initiatives.

The Business Analyst role in operations is responsible for establishing data analysis processes, capabilities, examining large data sets, and compiling and presenting data-driven network analysis primarily related to network risk and performance information. You will assist in the development of new systems and operational network tools via automated data extraction, perform A/B tests, analyze results, and create and evolve new operational processes, insights, and use cases related to the new OSS tools being implemented within GSN.

Google Ads helps power the open internet with technology that connects and creates value for people, publishers, advertisers, and Google. Our teams build Google’s advertising products, including search, display, shopping, travel, and video advertising, as well as analytics. We create trusted experiences between people and businesses with useful ads, helping grow businesses of all sizes, from small businesses to large brands and YouTube creators, with effective tools that deliver measurable results. We also enable Google to engage with customers at scale.

Responsibilities

• Create clear and compelling dashboards and reports; present data insights to diverse audiences.
• Develop processes and improvements in operational cadence, and translate business requirements into data analysis projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document business requirements. Conduct workshops, interviews, and surveys to understand user needs and business objectives, and translate these into clear and concise specifications.
• Analyze large datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights. Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to track KPIs, utilizing SQL and other data analysis tools.
• Maintain clear and consistent communication with all stakeholders, explaining complex ideas in simple terms to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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 require accommodations, please complete our Accommodations for Applicants form.