Strategy & Operations Lead — Global GTM & Budget Excellence

Google; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 152,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Google’s gUP Strategy & Operations team seeks a seasoned leader to own resource and budget planning across gTech Users and Products. You’ll partner with finance, GTM, and senior leadership to translate strategic objectives into actionable budgets and governance.

Role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, change management, and insights delivery, with strong data skills and project leadership in a global consumer-product context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in a management consulting, sales operations, business strategy or corporate advisory role.
• MBA.
• Experience in working in a highly cross-functional environment, with different teams around the globe and in a consumer product-facing or support services organization.
• Strong communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate with senior leadership to translate complex strategic objectives into execution plans.
• Proven problem-solving skills combined with business judgment, with the ability to synthesize analysis into business recommendations.
• Excellent data management skills working with disparate sets of data.
• Demonstrated project management skills, driving projects with multiple collaborators and stakeholders in a change-oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design and roll-out of multi-layered business planning for gUP’s budget across the broader gUP organization.
• Drive monthly, quarterly and annual business planning cycles, drive visibility into resource allocations, budgeting and investment decisions.
• Ensure gUP is managing resources wisely by creating strong internal governance for budget management, tracking and reporting.
• Lead collaboration with cross-functional teams in Finance and GTM.
• Connect different functions to operate as One gUP when managing the spend portfolio.
• Help drive change management initiatives to improve reporting, governance, and collaboration.
• Analyze, synthesize and deliver actionable reporting and insights for a range of stakeholders.
• Translate the complicated details into clear recommendations.
• Identify gaps and propose changes.
• Own and innovate solutions at scale that can grow with the business, leveraging internal AI tools to amplify your scope and impact.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Data analysis

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Project management

Change management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Job description

Google’s gUP Strategy & Operations team seeks a seasoned leader to own resource and budget planning across gTech Users and Products. You’ll partner with finance, GTM, and senior leadership to translate strategic objectives into actionable budgets and governance.

Role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, change management, and insights delivery, with strong data skills and project leadership in a global consumer-product context.