Community

Home >

Jobs >

Strategy and Operations Principal Lead, Strategic Projects

Strategy and Operations Principal Lead, Strategic Projects

2 Months ago • 6-8 Years • Business Development • Undisclosed

About the job

4 skills required for this role

Add these skills to join the top 1% applicants for this job

business-strategy

team-player

networking

cross-functional

Job Description

As a Strategy and Operations Principal Lead, Strategic Projects, you will work with regional leadership to identify, design and implement opportunities to drive business growth and continuous improvement. You will partner with Central Strategy and several other Go-To-Market(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 strategic decisions and achieving their business objectives. Responsibilities: Work with executive leadership to define, launch, and drive strategic initiatives. Define project scope, key focus areas, analysis needed to uncover opportunities and drive stakeholder alignment and consensus to deliver business impact. Work with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver on project priorities, drive alignment and enable decision making. Communicate findings to executive leadership in the form of executive-ready presentations and facilitation of strategy topics across functional teams.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
8 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate advisory, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree
Experience with executive-level engagement as a business, operational, and strategic partner
Networking and influencing across functions
Ability to lead complex operational and strategic initiatives
Ability to be a team player and successfully execute cross-functionally
Excellent problem solving and project management skills
Business acumen and knowledge of digital ads and Google’s business
Effective communication skills

Good to have:

Ability to navigate ambiguous situations, ramp-up on new issues and opportunities
Ability to take complex, ambiguous topics and create simple, compelling narratives for different audiences

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate advisory, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with executive-level engagement as a business, operational, and strategic partner. Networking and influencing across functions.
Ability to lead complex operational and strategic initiatives, with increasing levels of responsibility and independence and to navigate ambiguous situations, ramp-up on new issues and opportunities.
Ability to be a team player and successfully execute cross-functionally.
Excellent problem solving and project management skills with business acumen and knowledge of digital ads and Google’s business.
Effective communication skills, and the ability to take complex, ambiguous topics and create simple, compelling narratives for different audiences.

About the job

****Use this template only when existing Area Templates don't apply. For one-off use cases, not ongoing roles. If you need to create a NEW template for your team submit a request at go/jdreview.****

You will work with regional leadership to identify, design and implement opportunities to drive business growth and continuous improvement. You will partner with Central Strategy and several other Go-To-Market(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 strategic decisions and achieving their business objectives.

Responsibilities

Work with executive leadership to define, launch, and drive strategic initiatives.
Define project scope, key focus areas, analysis needed to uncover opportunities and drive stakeholder alignment and consensus to deliver business impact.
Work with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver on project priorities, drive alignment and enable decision making.
Communicate findings to executive leadership in the form of executive-ready presentations and facilitation of strategy topics across functional teams.

View Full Job Description

Upload your resume, increase your shortlisting chances by 80%

About The Company

Google

1321 Active Jobs

A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.