Minimum qualifications:

• Experience in consulting or similar work requiring program or project management.

• Ability to communicate in English and Polish fluently as this role requires interactions with local stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in working within organizations that navigate external change (e.g., engagement with institutional stakeholders, regulations, reputation).

• Ability to grow in ambiguity and work in a fast-changing environment, with an entrepreneurial approach.

• Excellent people management skills to work across various functions and influence stakeholders.

• Excellent communication skills with strong executive presence and demonstrated influencing skills.

• Excellent data analysis and problem solving skills coupled with strong business acumen.

The Business Strategy & Operations organization provides business critical insights using analytics, ensures cross functional alignment of goals and execution, and helps teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. We stay focused on aligning the highest-level company priorities with effective day-to-day operations, and help evolve early stage ideas into future-growth initiatives.

As a Manager for Country Strategy and Operations, you will navigate and partner with cross-functional leads beyond Ads, along with business critical key priorities. You will have a natural bias to action, being able to drive projects and initiatives forward in a structured manner, while managing a heterogenous group of executive leaders. You will work on a cluster and country level, with a mandate to partner with the wider EMEA community and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams in order to support maximum alignment of cross-functional strategy and efficiency of operations.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

• Partner with the executive leads in Central Eastern Europe (CEE), especially Poland, and other CEE countries to set and drive cross-functional priorities beyond Google Ads.

• Manage projects with an operating rhythm and governance framework that ensure priorities are being managed effectively towards success, and decisions are being taken in an efficient manner.

• Serve as an advisor to the executive stakeholders in respective projects and provide them with insights, analysis and proposals that support decision making processes.

• Drive best-practice sharing across similar markets and EMEA.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also https://careers.google.com/eeo/ and https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/OFCCPEEOPost.pdf If you have a need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form: https://goo.gl/forms/aBt6Pu71i1kzpLHe2.