Planning and Strategic Projects Manager, Devices and Services - London, United Kingdom - Google

Description

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Minimum qualifications:

• Experience in management consulting, corporate strategy in a technology business, or a related field.
• Experience with data-driven business analytics, operational process improvement, and business performance goal setting and measurement.
• Experience making strategic recommendations to business stakeholders.
• Experience working in a cross-functional environment, across multiple teams and management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in the consumer electronics industry.
• Knowledge of consumer electronics and/or telecommunications industries.
• Understanding of the interplay of business decisions and team dynamics.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving organization.
• Strong strategic thinking and execution skills.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with effective attention to detail.

About the job

In this role, you will make our marketing smarter and integrated by providing the right information, touchpoints, and tools to enable our teams to do their work together. You will work with global marketing teams as well as regional Devices and Services Marketing leads to facilitate Go-To-Market planning, shape, refine, and execute on our operational cadence, internal and team communications strategy, and help maintain a strong team culture. You will be a part of a cross-functional team of business and marketing problem solvers, collaborating closely on strategic initiatives to help refine our broader operations as a growth startup within Google.

Know the user. Know the magic. Connect the two. At its core, marketing at Google starts with technology and ends with the user, bringing both together in unconventional ways. Our job is to demonstrate how Google's products solve the world's problems--from the everyday to the epic, from the mundane to the monumental. And we approach marketing in a way that only Google can--changing the game, redefining the medium, making the user the priority, and ultimately, letting the technology speak for itself.

Responsibilities

• Build strategic narratives and drive analyses to define and align with stakeholders our annual Marketing investment plans, as well as for ongoing adjustments to plans based on market conditions and to support business cases for new investments.
• Drive projects to address emerging strategic questions with smart framing, fact-gathering, and data-driven analysis. Make recommendations on key decisions, manage change, and incubate new capabilities.
• Own regular tracking of business performance and marketing impact metrics, evolve the framework in line with business and team priorities, and maintaining permanent repositories of key data.
• Build executive-level communications for our team, ranging from launch and activity updates to presentations to C-level executive briefings.
• Manage and optimize our internal forums and communication channels by establishing cadence, building agendas and curating content. Improve team happiness, development, and effectiveness through surveys and data analysis.