Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with the News and News partners’ business (or experience in another industry).
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience facilitating and closing agreements with strategic partners.
• Strong collaboration skills; experience of outstanding cross-functional collaboration to drive results, with the ability to influence people without having direct authority over them and rally teams around shared goals.
• Ability to work with multiple work-streams in a fast-paced environment while paying close attention to detail, and the ability to thrive in ambiguity.
• Ability to speak and write in a Nordic language (Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, or Swedish) fluently.

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 EMEA News Publishing Partnerships team works to transform Google’s relationships with the news industry in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. We build relationships that solve users’ needs, advance our partners’ goals, and further Google’s mission. We collaborate across different product areas at Google to grow our business and theirs, build trust, and deepen relationships. Our team collaborates with other teams at Google to highlight our work to tell great stories about our engagement with the news industries.

In this role, you'll help address the challenges we face in the News industry in Northern Europe. You'll execute the strategy set for UK/IE/Northern Europe with cross-functional teams. You will maintain a pulse on the News ecosystem and Google’s role within it, be the voice of partners with internal regional and global stakeholders, and play a role in shaping Google’s News initiatives as we continue in pursuit of gathering the world's information for our users. You will work with cross-functional leadership in Northern Europe to ensure the strategy aligns with their activities. You will be expected to collaborate on the roll out of specific projects or initiatives with other Partnerships teams.

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

• Own planning and execution of the agreed News Partnerships strategy leveraging existing resources with the objective to address Google’s opportunities and challenges from a business and reputation perspective.
• Collaborate across different Google teams to drive a partner- and industry-centric approach that elevates relationships to the executive level for strategic News partners.
• Propose strategies and provide insights on Google’s industry programs.
• Co-lead and influence “One-Google” approach to address our key external relationship challenges at senior level with key News partners and owning relationships as needed. Maintain effective relationships with publishers and identify new opportunities to grow the cooperation.
• Identify and prioritize partners; be an expert on each partner's organization, business model, and strategic priorities. Serve as a liaison with these partners regarding product and feature launches and distribution opportunities.