Strategic Projects Lead, Go-to-market

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**For Spain**:A person with disabilities will be given preferential consideration per local regulations.

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience of working within management consulting or project management.

Preferred qualifications:

- Demonstrated ability to lead complex operational and strategic initiatives.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, combined with impeccable business acumen and ability to move from detail to executive level strategy and presentations.
- Strong collaboration skills, ideas and a passion for the internet, with the ability to work with people from a broad range of backgrounds and experience.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, as well as the ability to write well and translate complex issues into simple language that people who are not experts can understand.
- Excellent influencing and senior stakeholder management skills.

**About the job**:
The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We 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.

As a Strategic Projects Lead in the Go-To-Market EMEA team, you will operationalize and project manage complex, multidisciplinary projects, to execute on existing vision, goals, or strategy. You will design the strategic recommendations, embedding inclusively a broader set of point of views while providing guidance on preferred options. You will run a project management office, ensuring a broad set of efforts roll out effectively across the EMEA region. You will define requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This will include building relationships with stakeholders across multiple functions and countries, managing project schedules, identifying risks, and clearly communicating goals to project stakeholders. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and cultures, and it's your job to keep all the players coordinated on the project's progress and deadlines.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

**Responsibilities**:

- Drive progress and ensure delivery of EMEA-wide strategic, organizational, and operational projects, in collaboration with a wide range of partners across Product, Sales, Finance, Marketing, gTech, and others.
- Build and manage relationships with key internal senior stakeholders.
- Lead presentations and clearly communicate findings and recommendations to regional leadership and beyond, and gain buy-in on recommended next steps.

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