Vendor Operations and Strategy Manager

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7 years of experience in program or project management.

Preferred qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in the workforce industry.
• Experience in vendor management, setting and driving vendor strategy, process improvement, contracting and commercial negotiations.
• Experience in devising and implementing strategies and business improvements.
• Ability to solve problems, find solutions, manage projects across multiple stakeholders and geographies, and collaborate to develop partnerships.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to manage and influence executive stakeholders/C-Suite.

Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one Google advertising solution works for all. Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and analytical abilities shapes how new and existing businesses grow. Using your relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis. You anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of Google's key clients and understand how our range of product offerings can grow their business. Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users. Google Customer Solutions (GCS) sales teams are trusted advisors and competitive sellers who maintain a relentless focus on customer success by bringing the best Google has to offer to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which are the backbone of our communities. As a member of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to work with company owners and make a real difference in their businesses by helping them grow. Together, we help shape the future of innovation for customers, partners, and sellers...and we have fun doing it.

• Conduct Request for Proposal (RFP), negotiate investments, focus on Return on Investment (ROI), secure leadership sponsorship.
• Establish and own trusted relationships with C-level of the external workforce. Influence forward looking investments and executive commitments. Design and execute comprehensive operational excellence strategies aligned with the organization's overall goals (e.g., site level, vendor level to global).
• Identify local optimization opportunities and seek alignment with regional and central stakeholders to materialise gains while ensuring business continuity. Negotiate and execute on optimization directives received form central functions based on global data motivated insights.
• Design plan for new launches and execute vendor roadmap for offshore business. Design and implement contractual readiness. Act as guide and coach for the entire operation.