Strategy Projects Lead

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with executive-level engagement as a business, operational, and strategic thought partner. Effective networking and influencing skills, with the ability to work across various functions.
• Ability to lead complex operational and strategic initiatives, with increasing levels of responsibility and independence
• Ability to take complex, ambiguous topics and create simple, compelling narratives for different audiences and ramp-up fast on new problem statements and opportunities.

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 shape of executive-ready presentations and thoughtful facilitation of strategy topics across functional teams.

About the job

gTech’s Strategy and Operations team (gSO) is made up of strategic partners and trusted advisors that drive success and transformative changes for gTech. We create value through deep functional and business expertise combined with analytical rigor to formulate and deliver strategies. Using core capabilities ― strategy, analytics, and communications ― we empower gTech to do amazing things to land the present, and build for the future.

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.