Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with sales, partnerships, and/or business development organizations
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience influencing executive stakeholders in a matrixed organization
• Knowledge of, or exposure to the technology sector
• Excellent writing skills

About the job

The EMEA News Partnerships (NP) team works to transform Google’s relationships with the news industry in the Europe Middle East and Africa region. Our team provides meaningful solutions from helping news organizations grow and transform their business and find new audiences, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We collaborate across Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our most complex and strategic partners to grow our business and theirs, build trust, and deepen relationships. Our team collaborates closely with other partnerships teams, Policy, Marketing, and Communications to highlight our work to tell great stories about our engagement with the news industries and influence key opinion formers in our region.

Strategy and Operations works with the News partnerships leadership team to develop partnership strategies, build and align operating priorities, and drive global execution. We are critical thinkers, influencers, and leaders with expertise in simplifying complexity and managing multiple competing priorities towards rigorous outcomes. On this team, you will help build and execute country and region-level News industry strategies, including licensing across Google product surfaces, scaled publisher education programs, and engagement across our key stakeholder groups in the industry.

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

• Work with the News Partnerships team to align global and regional priorities and become a thought partner to your Partnerships stakeholder, and help them sharpen and refine their approach to strategic issues
• Run core operational processes across News Partnerships (e.g. reporting, planning) and quantitative analysis (modeling, forecasting, data storytelling) to help Google take a principled approach to News Programs
• Support strategic planning of News Partnerships’ efforts by developing budgets and forecasts, designing and improving processes and governance frameworks to ensure operational excellence in decision making and execution
• Provide day-to-day support for market approaches and negotiations and measure and communicate the impact of programs
• Take ownership of projects and issues, and work collaboratively to navigate risks in order to help deliver the strategic objectives of the News Partnerships organization