Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working in a Strategy and Operations role either in technology, consulting, banking, or internal corporate strategy.
• Experience managing executive stakeholders in an advisor role, working with cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in Cloud and Enterprise IT.
• Demonstrated record of high productivity and meeting deadlines, with the ability to take responsibility.
• Analytical skills and ability to synthesize complex data into actionable business insights.
• Executive story-lining and communication skills, ability to craft a compelling narrative in verbal and written form including presentation structure and design.
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced environments with effective time-management and prioritization skills.
• Flexible and accustomed to high-growth, ambiguous situations, motivated to learn, and comfortable working as part of a team of talented professionals.

About the job

As a Regional Strategy and Operations Lead, you will be part of the Regional Strategy and Operations organization, utilizing your leadership expertise, business acumen, and creativity to drive and grow the business. In this role, you will jointly be driving the business with the executive leadership team, act as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for a Vice President of Sales, while owning and driving the business through detailed planning and executing, develop and deploy business strategy towards high growth.

You will solve problems, work with data, and find solutions to help the greater team succeed. You will help shape strategy and plans. You will drive a growing business and build processes, structures, and programmatic systems that will have a high impact for many people within the organization that you will be supporting and their clients. You will build relationships with counterparts and key stakeholders, help them land ambitious plans, being a strategic partner and trusted advisor to the business leadership.

Google Cloud provides organizations with leading infrastructure, platform capabilities and industry solutions. We deliver enterprise-grade cloud solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology to help companies operate more efficiently and adapt to changing needs, giving customers a foundation for the future. Customers in more than 150 countries turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Vice President of Sales and their leadership team to develop the organization’s strategy, including organizational design, growth, and business plan, becoming an integral part of the leadership team. Be an advisor to the region’s leadership team.
• Drive the business forward by developing and executing initiatives to accelerate growth and scale the business.
• Establish and shape the way we work, through operational cadence, content of reviews, improvement initiatives and metrics, insights, and reporting. 
• Manage the business for the UK region, own key processes such as business reviews and planning, and foster collaboration and best practices sharing within the region and globally. 
• Measure progress of goals, be aware of opportunities, and develop and implement plans to bridge them as well as facilitating management discussions and decisions.