Strategy and Operations Lead, Google Cloud

Owen Thomas B Corp; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Strategy and Operations Lead in London to join the EMEA Business Strategy and Operations team. You will provide critical insights, align goals across functions, and push strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward.

You will stay focused on translating high-level priorities into effective day-to-day operations and help evolve early stage ideas into growth opportunities for Google Cloud across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 year of experience in sales management, management consulting, or Strategy/Sales Operations in an Enterprise Software firm.
• Experience working in an Enterprise Software/Cloud Sales/Consulting organization.

Responsibilities

• Provide business critical insights and cross-functional alignment of goals and execution.
• Help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward.
• Align highest-level company priorities with day-to-day operations and evolve ideas into growth initiatives.
• Evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives for Google Cloud.

Skills

Sales management

Strategy & operations

Data analysis

Communication

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Strategy and Operations Lead, Google Cloud Overview

• Company Name Google
• Job Role Strategy and Operations Lead, Google Cloud
• Qualifications Not specified
• Category I
• Job Type Full Time
• Location London, UK

What we're looking for

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 year of experience in sales management, management consulting, or Strategy/Sales Operations in an Enterprise Software firm.
• Experience working in an Enterprise Software/Cloud Sales/Consulting organization.

Nice to have

• Experience in leading large programs or consulting projects at a consulting firm with a focus on the enterprise sales space.
• Experience influencing and collaborating with senior stakeholders in a matrixed organization.
• Ability to grow in an ambiguous and changing environment, with limited direction, balance competing priorities, and manage several time-sensitive projects at once.
• Ability to project manage and work with minimal guidance.
• Comfortable crafting and communicating insights from data, as well as attention- to-detail and an interest in metrics/understanding trends and patterns in business performance.
• Excellent strategic, problem-solving, analytical, presentation and communication skills.

The role

As a part of the EMEA Business Strategy and Operations team, you will provide business critical insights, ensures cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. 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.Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

What you'll do

• Partner with UKI Leadership team to develop the organization’s strategy, growth, and business plan, becoming an integral part of the leadership team and trusted advisor.
• Tailor the UKI business strategy and narrative for the local markets, leveraging data to identify specific vertical, horizontal, and competitor risks and opportunities.
• Drive the business forward by developing and executing initiatives to accelerate our growth and scale the business.
• Shape the way we work and run the business as a Strategy and Sales Operations team, and manage the business for your region, own key processes, foster collaboration, and measure progress towards goals.

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