Strategy and Operations Manager, UKI Go-To-Market

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in a project/program management role.

• Experience working with data sets, investigative tools and extracting insights from data.
• Knowledge of Ads ecosystem.
• Ability to manage projects in a constantly changing environment.
• Ability to collaborate, influence, and communicate across all levels of an organization.
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity in a dynamic environment, with an entrepreneurial approach.

The Business Strategy and 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 Strategy and Operations Manager in the Go-To-Market UKI team, you will deliver focused support against our business and customer priorities, enabling our sales teams to drive growth. You will work in direct partnership with UKI Leadership and as part of a cross-functional team across the business. You will navigate and partner with executive-level stakeholders, maintaining relationships to enable leadership success and leading initiatives forward in a structured manner.

You will operationalize and manage multidisciplinary projects to execute on an existing goal or strategy. You will have proficiency in project management, ensuring a broad set of efforts roll out effectively across the business. You will define requirements with internal business partners, usher projects through the entire project life-cycle, build relationships with stakeholders across multiple functions and countries, manage project schedules, identify risks, and clearly communicate goals to project stakeholders.

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.

• Support customer priorities as a business partner for the UKI business.
• Maintain cross-functional relationships and co-ordination to ensure business success and operational efficiency.
• Assume leadership responsibility for key high-profile projects linked to the UKI plan and priorities.
• Drive best-practice sharing across teams.
• Identify opportunities and problems within a given project scope.

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