Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience working in a partnerships position.
• Ability to speak and write in Dutch or any Scandinavian language fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced project management experience across complex stakeholder networks on integrations with third parties (including API integrations and solution design).
• Experience building and managing complex stakeholder networks, both partner-facing and internally.
• Ability to communicate with diverse stakeholder groups of all levels, on both technical and non-technical matters; ability to adapt your language to communicate effectively to audiences of all levels.
• Ability to think strategically about complex issues and develop recommendations and action plans.

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.

As a Strategic Partner Manager, you will lead transformational, high growth, product-enabling global partnerships including entities of all shapes and sizes, such as store-builders, e-commerce platforms, ad tech, and marketing technology platforms who bring Google Ads to local businesses. You will influence partners across the C-Suite, as well as internally cross-functionally with teams such as Marketing and Product teams, to drive our strategic product priorities, and accelerate scaled acquisition of Small- and Medium-sized Business (SMB) and the business generation trajectory of our business.

When our millions of advertisers and publishers are happy, so are we! Our Google Customer Solutions (GCS) team of entrepreneurial, enthusiastic and client-focused members are the "human face" of Google, helping entrepreneurs both individually and broadly build their online presence and grow their businesses. We are dedicated to growing the unique needs of advertising companies. Our teams of strategists, analysts, advisers and support specialists collaborate closely to spot and analyze customer needs and trends. In collaboration, we create and implement business plans broadly for all types of businesses.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong, trusting relationships with partners’ leadership and teams to influence joint business goals, including technical stakeholders who own roadmap decisions and product launch processes.  
• Collaborate across complex stakeholder networks to define both global Channel Partner and local One-Google strategy; providing input in global forums for local product and partnership expansions.
• Adapt and activate complex global go-to-market and product strategies locally through deep local expertise and understanding of market needs, to drive local partner impact.
• Develop business acumen to uncover partner priorities to identify, size, and propose joint business opportunities, with measurable milestones and outcomes.
• Drive and develop the business performance cadence with partners’ and Google’s leadership.