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Strategic Agency Managers, Google Customer Solutions (Japanese, English)

Tokyo, Japan (On-site)

Strategic Agency Managers, Google Customer Solutions (Japanese, English)

3 Weeks ago • 5 Years + • Business Development • Undisclosed

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Job Description

As a Strategic Agency Manager at Google Customer Solutions, you'll build and maintain relationships with agency partners to drive business growth and product adoption. This involves developing go-to-market strategies, managing existing agreements, and collaborating with internal cross-functional teams. You will work to optimize partnerships, fostering long-term relationships and identifying opportunities for agency growth. Key responsibilities include developing cross-product initiatives, engaging in executive-level meetings, and ensuring the success of both agencies and clients. Fluency in Japanese and English is essential for this customer-facing role.

Must have:

5+ years experience in relevant fields
Executive relationship building
Fluent in Japanese and English
Digital advertising solution selling
Strategic partnership management
Cross-functional team collaboration

Good to have:

Experience in a dynamic environment
Thought leadership and influencing skills
Global team collaboration experience
Excellent communication and problem-solving

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
5 years of experience in business development, partnerships, management consulting, or investment banking, in the Consumer Electronics, Auto, OEMs, Telecom, E-Commerce/Retail, Apps, Ads, Gaming, or Technology industries.
Experience in building executive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Ability to communicate in Japanese and English fluently, as it is a customer-facing role that requires interactions with local and regional stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience working autonomously in a dynamic, ever-changing, and collaborative environment.
Experience managing complex partnerships and selling digital advertising solutions.
Demonstrated thought leadership, with the ability to influence, high executive functioning.
Ability to develop actionable insights to capture opportunities.
Ability to be comfortably working with global teams.
Excellent communication, influencing, and problem solving skills to assess performance.

About the job

Google Customer Solutions Sales teams are trusted advisors and competitive sellers who maintain a relentless focus on customer success by bringing the best Google has to offer. When our millions of advertisers and publishers are happy, so are we. Our Google Customer Solutions (GCS) team of entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and client-focused members of Google, helping entrepreneurs both individually and broadly build their online presence and grow their businesses. We are dedicated to growing the unique needs of advertising companies. Our teams of strategists, analysts, advisers and support specialists collaborate closely to spot and analyze customer needs and trends. Together, we create and implement business plans broadly for all types of businesses.

In this role, you will partner with agency executives, GCS customer sellers, and cross-channel agency teams to drive business growth and product adoption via long-term relationship building and agreement making. You will be responsible for bringing our partners on a journey by determining where our agency, customer, and Google strategies and GCS priorities align to enable both agency and customer success.

Many of our advertising clients rely on agencies to plan, execute, and manage their marketing activities and advertising campaigns. The Agency team is responsible for empowering these clients to achieve their marketing and advertising goals through effective agency partnerships. This involves collaborating directly with both agencies and advertisers, while also helping agencies enhance their capabilities to better serve their clients.

Your role is to identify opportunities to cultivate agency growth, enabling them to reach their full potential in supporting clients and achieving scalable impact.

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and evolve external relationships with partners and across the ecosystem, and manage strategic partnerships with entities of all sizes.
Develop cross-product area strategic partner initiatives and build go-to-market strategies to meet broader Google goals across rapidly changing industries.
Serve as the relationship manager for our current existing agreements. Help realize and optimize value from these partnerships while building effective long-term relationships.
Engage with several internal cross-functional teams across multiple geographies to incubate, launch, improve, and scale new features and user experiences across markets and functional areas.
Own and strengthen executive-level agency relationships through key C-level meetings, quarterly reviews, and speaking engagements.

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