Country Operations Manager, Central Europe (Fixed Term Contract)

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in management consulting or other business strategy role.
• Experience in analytics.
• Experience communicating, presenting, and influencing a range of audiences, including executives.

Preferred qualifications:

• MBA, Master's degree or PhD in a Management, Technical or Engineering field.
• Experience working on complex operational and strategic initiatives.
• Experience in tech, media, telecom company, or education in STEM.
• Analytical work experience in strategy or in a business operations environment.
• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) and Research marketplaces.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, modeling, presentation, leadership, communication, and collaboration 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 Manager for Country Strategy and Operations you will exceed at navigating and partnering with cross-functional leads beyond Ads, along business critical key priorities. You’ll have a natural bias to action, being able to drive projects and initiatives forward in a structured manner, while managing a heterogenous group of senior leaders under public scrutiny. This unique role works on a cluster and country level, with a mandate to partner with the wider EMEA community and GTM teams in order to support maximum alignment of cross-functional strategy and efficiency of operations.

This position is a 2-year Fixed-Term-Contract position.

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

• Partner with the most senior leads in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and CEE countries (Cluster or Country Managers, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Marketing, Comms) to set and drive cross-functional priorities beyond Google Ads.
• Be able to program manage projects with an operating rhythm and governance framework that ensures priorities are being managed effectively towards success, and decisions are being taken in an efficient manner.
• Serve as an advisor to the senior stakeholders in respective projects (e.g. Country Manager) and provide them with insights, analysis, and proposals that support decision making processes.
• Drive best-practice sharing across similar archetype markets and EMEA.

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