Business Governance Lead, Global Strategy and Operations

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy, Sales Operations, Strategy and Operations, Management Consulting, or Product Marketing, focused on driving adoption of technology products or services.
- Experience working with executive-level clients or stakeholders.
- Experience with data analysis, generating data-driven insights to influence decision-making using SQL or other analytical approaches.
- Ability to communicate in English fluently as this role requires communication with US and Canada based partners.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- MBA or other relevant advanced degree.
- Experience with strategy and operations for an enterprise sales and Cloud computing business.
- Experience tailoring and delivering compelling reporting and presentations by audience, asking strategic questions, and leading conversations that drive results and efficiencies.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and influencing without authority to drive operational excellence, successful delivery of priority initiatives, process improvements, and change management.
- Knowledge of enterprise customers and cloud technologies, products and market landscape.

**About the job**:
The Google Cloud Go-to-Market Strategy and Operations team acts as trusted advisors, partnering with Sales, Customer Engineering, Finance, Marketing, Partners and Google Cloud Consulting to plan, strategize, and run the business in a transformational way.

As a Global Strategy and Operations Manager, you will be responsible for defining, landing and executing on our key strategic priorities to drive operational excellence, business growth, and productivity. You will be responsible for helping with planning, goal setting, territory design, expansion plans and managing the rhythm of the business activities. You will provide business insights, ensure cross-functional alignment, drive strategic partnerships, and execute new initiatives. The organization's goal is to align company priorities with day-to-day operations and 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.

**Responsibilities**:

- Influence executive-level decision-making around core business decisions, such as prioritization of growth opportunities, through scalable and actionable analytical insights to increase productivity.
- Be a trusted advisor to your organization and their leadership team, communicating, structuring, and problem solving complex and ambiguous business challenges and supporting organization priorities.
- Run and improve operations by launching new programs, goal setting, streamlining processes, automating tasks, identifying opportunities across the business, and optimizing resource allocation.
- Organize the design and implementation of business cadence to deliver effective operations and achieve key milestones.

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