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Strategy and Operations, Senior Associate

Strategy and Operations, Senior Associate

1 Month ago • 2-4 Years • Business Development • Operations

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Job Description

As a Strategy and Operations, Senior Associate, you'll be at the forefront of Google's Global Business Organization (GBO) and Go-To-Market (GTM) initiatives. You'll work closely with regional and country leadership to identify, design, and implement strategies for driving business growth and continuous improvement. This role involves partnering with Central Strategy and various GTM teams to deliver on critical business priorities, enable sales teams, and support decision-making processes. You'll have the opportunity to work on a wide range of GTM topics, gaining exposure to different aspects of the business. Your responsibilities will include driving complex, cross-functional projects, providing data-driven recommendations to executives, supporting strategic initiatives, and resolving complex problems. You'll need to demonstrate strong analytical skills, the ability to navigate ambiguity, and excellent communication skills to effectively convey complex information.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
4 years of experience in relevant fields
Ability to lead operational and strategic initiatives
Excellent team player
Effective networking and influencing skills
Excellent problem-solving and project management skills
Excellent communication skills

Good to have:

2 years of experience with an advanced degree
Ability to navigate ambiguous situations
Ability to work across various functions

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Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
4 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity or corporate advisory, or 2 years of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

Ability to lead operational and strategic initiatives.
Ability to navigate ambiguous situations, fast ramp-up on new problem statements and opportunities.
Excellent team player with the ability to successfully execute cross-functionally.
Effective networking and influencing skills, with the ability to work across various functions.
Excellent Problem solving and project management skills.
Excellent communication skills, and the ability to take complex, ambiguous topics and create simple, compelling narratives for different audiences.

About the job

As a Strategy and Operations, Senior Associate, you will have the opportunity to work on Global Business Organization (GBO) and Go-To-Market's (GTM) top business priorities. You will work with regional and country leadership to identify, design and implement opportunities to drive business growth and continuous improvement. You will partner with Central Strategy and several other GTM teams to deliver on the region's most important business priorities and enable our sales organization. You will have the opportunity to work on a breadth of topics in GTM and get exposure to several aspects of the business. You will support GTM teams in making critical strategic decisions and achieving their business objectives.

Responsibilities

Drive complex, cross-functional projects with ownership of select project initiatives, driving alignment and enabling decision making across multiple Google product areas to achieve sales and partnership goals.
Provide critical analysis and data-driven recommendations to executive leaders on priority topics, identifying opportunities for growth and resolving operational inefficiencies.
Provide day-to-day strategy and operations support to executive leaders, contributing to the overall business strategy and project scoping for APAC. Work with executive leadership (regional and country) to define, launch and drive strategic initiatives.
Solve complex problems, applying a wide range of tools and approaches to develop optimal outcomes. Demonstrate the ability to resolve ambiguous situations with clear insights and actionable recommendations.
Develop and demonstrate working knowledge of market, product, organizational, and cross-functional nuances, leveraging this expertise to contribute to strategic initiatives and recommend improvements.

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