Minimum qualifications:

• Experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, business strategy, strategy, and operations/business operations, or equivalent
• Experience leading and implementing high-impact projects with cross-functional teams within a marketing setting
• Project management experience

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience successfully working with cross-functional marketing teams
• Ability to communicate and work collaboratively and cross-functionally
• Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and present key findings (both quantitative and analytically) and then apply to future programs
• Organizational and entrepreneurial skills
• Hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving

About the job

Strategy & Operations (S&O) professionals in Google’s Marketing organization provide business critical insights and analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. Whether you are embedded within a specific marketing team to use insights to enable better marketing decisions or the global S&O function to equip the organization to succeed at scale, you will engage with Google leadership in order to establish Marketing’s strategic direction. You will manage planning and operational processes and work cross-functionally with key partners across Marketing, Product, Finance and Engineering to solve our toughest challenges, advocate for high-priority projects, and drive greater operational excellence within Marketing.

To be successful in this role, you have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, effective quantitative and communication skills, and the ability to take on broad-reaching and ambiguous questions while working collaboratively and cross-functionally with Googlers of all levels.

As the Operations lead for YouTube Marketing EMEA, you will be supporting our regional and local marketing teams in EMEA, and will help them operationalize their plan and achieve their objectives.

You will contribute to shape the team's operational processes - helping the team to focus on our priorities by setting, tracking, and reporting our business key performance indicators (KPIs) and key initiatives. You will contribute to improve operations and processes, including budget management, agency discussions, contracting, etc. You will work closely with global teams, legal, compliance, and finance teams to ensure alignment and to streamline operational processes.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

Responsibilities

• Adapt and optimize key global operational structures and processes to ensure the team works efficiently.
• Set, track, and report our business KPIs.
• Partner with Finance to manage marketing budget across multiple strategies and markets; ensure agility in resource management and efficiency in spend.
• Create and maintain tools to improve access to data and decision making.
• Create playbooks and training programs to improve the team’s professional level.