Vendor Solutions Consultant, Google Cloud

1 Month ago • 10 Years + • Business Development

Job Summary

Job Description

This Vendor Solutions Consultant role at Google Cloud focuses on advising and providing solutions to Learning and Training services stakeholders regarding their vendor needs. You will act as a trusted advisor, build strong relationships with global partners and internal stakeholders, and secure optimal value for Google in all vendor agreements. Responsibilities include developing and implementing a comprehensive vendor strategy, conducting in-depth agreement reviews, designing innovative vendor solutions, conducting market research, collaborating with stakeholders to create request documents, and ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 10 years management consulting or equivalent client-facing experience
  • 8 years consulting & transformation project management experience
  • Experience in commercial negotiations and SOWs
  • Data analysis experience for trend identification
Good to have:
  • Experience in a contract role with a professional services firm
  • Ability to deliver business transformation programs
  • Excellent communication and influencing skills
  • Strong organizational and project management skills

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in management consulting or equivalent experience in a client-facing role, advising on and delivering solutions for business problems.
  • 8 years of experience in consulting and transformation, and in managing projects with ambiguity, multiple information sources, and managing multiple stakeholders across the globe with competing priorities.
  • Experience analyzing and advising, commercial negotiations and governing SOW constructs for service-based agreements and commercial models.
  • Experience in conducting/drawing insights from multiple data analysis to identify trends, patterns and actionable insights.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in a contract role with a professional services and Consulting organization.
  • Ability to deliver business transformation programs in a fluid, and dynamic environment.
  • Ability to identify and understand business problems, and craft creative, impactful solutions.
  • Ability to communicate and influence cross-functionally and at the executive level.
  • Ability to operate with autonomy and independence in complex environments, demonstrate thought leadership and result oriented at fast speed.
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with clients and act as a trusted advisor and strategic partner.

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

This role is a consulting position, focused on advising and providing solutions to the Learning and Training services business stakeholders regarding their vendor needs.

In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor and solutions provider, build strong relationships with external partners globally, as well as internal Google stakeholders. You will be responsible for discussing and securing the best possible value for Google in all vendor agreements.

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

  • Assist the development and implementation of a comprehensive vendor strategy for Cloud Business functions, encompassing sourcing, selection, negotiation, and contracting.
  • Conduct in-depth reviews and analyses of existing agreements across Google Cloud vendor operations.
  • Design and propose innovative vendor solutions that encompass location strategy, rate cards, commercial terms, and other key variables.
  • Conduct thorough primary and secondary market research to establish cost benchmarks across various global locations and service types.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to craft clear, comprehensive, and compelling request documents that accurately capture the scope of services required.

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