Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in the News industry and ecosystem
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in sourcing and facilitating strategic partnerships
• Experience in regulatory affairs
• Ability to interpret legal documents and work with attorneys on specific agreement language
• Excellent Marketing/Public Relations (i.e. copywriting) skills

About the job

Google's line of products and services to clients never stops growing. Strategic Partner Managers have the rare opportunity to build a long-lasting relationship with our top partners. You cultivate these existing partnerships to make sure they can take full advantage of Google's ever-growing suite of offerings. You possess strong relationship-building skills and are apt to see mutually beneficial opportunities with partners in order to best represent our users, products and programs.

The Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) News Publishing Partnerships team works to transform Google’s relationships with the news industry in the region. We help news organizations grow their business and find audiences, while assisting partners in anticipating and navigating change. Our team collaborates with other Partnerships teams (e.g., Government Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP), Marketing, Communications, etc.) to highlight our work, tell engaging stories about our engagement with news industries, and influence opinion formers in our region.

The team is fast-paced, and our goals and priorities are always evolving. In this role, you will be creative and solution-oriented with effective problem-solving and analytical expertise.

Google’s Global Partnerships team powers extraordinary user experiences through partnerships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides meaningful solutions — from helping publishers and developers grow their businesses through monetization solutions, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We build and distribute products through partnerships across a multitude of product areas, including Ads, Search & Assistant, Geo, Platforms & Ecosystems, Devices & Services, Health, Retail, Payments, Next Billion Users, and more. We collaborate across Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our most complex and strategic partners.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project plans, responsibility assignment matrixes, and other cross-functional deliverables.
• Lead project meetings with external partner agencies and gather updates on deliverables from multiple cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate and develop clear, strategic goals with cross-functional teams, comprising of country-level points of contact, GAPP, Communications, and ad industry relationships teams.
• Understand the Google products that benefit news publishers (e.g., Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, and Google Cloud) and develop innovation projects to transform our strategic partners businesses.
• Contribute to planning processes, including budgeting, project prioritization, headcount planning, forecast management, and variance analysis. Identify potential risks/delays and support the project team in the resolution of issues.