EMEA Store Growth & Category Strategy Lead

Google LLC; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Store, Google’s owned and operated ecommerce channel, is seeking a Category and Strategy Manager to drive growth across the EMEA region. You will lead a category, partner with marketing, logistics, and finance, and own commercial outcomes including launches, forecasting, and promotional planning.

You will work with cross-functional teams to improve the customer experience, forecasting, and trading performance, while ensuring alignment with quarterly business goals and regional strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in a commercial strategy or business operations role within technology, retail, or e-commerce, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and presenting to leadership.
• Experience managing e-commerce levers (traffic, conversion, average order value) and working with digital retail profit and loss (P&L) structures.

Responsibilities

• Lead a growth category with full ownership of its commercial outcome. This includes launch planning, business forecasting, promotional planning, budget management, ongoing analysis and merchandising across EMEA sites.
• Drive day-to-day commercial performance and site monetization strategies across EMEA to achieve product volume goals, utilizing data to optimize on-site customer journeys.
• Lead cross-functional task forces to drive improvements in the end-to-end customer experience for your category, partnering with Customer Care, Operations and Logistics.
• Develop and manage new, innovative growth projects to scale the business in the region; Own the creation and delivery of reviews for leadership, skillfully synthesizing complex inputs from across the business into a compelling narrative.
• Lead critical campaign and business planning efforts to ensure a cohesive and well-integrated plan is delivered across all functions to exceed business goals.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Experience with e-commerce P&L

Presentation to leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Google Store, Google’s owned and operated ecommerce channel, is seeking a Category and Strategy Manager to drive growth across the EMEA region. You will lead a category, partner with marketing, logistics, and finance, and own commercial outcomes including launches, forecasting, and promotional planning.

You will work with cross-functional teams to improve the customer experience, forecasting, and trading performance, while ensuring alignment with quarterly business goals and regional strategies.