Strategy and Operations Manager, Canada and Latam Marketing (English)

**Minimum qualifications**: - Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. - 4 years of experience in a management consulting, operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital or private equity role, or 2 years of experience with an advanced degree. - 2 years of experience working with executive stakeholders. - 2 years of experience developing business strategies or managing cross-functional initiatives. - Ability to communicate in English fluently, to support client relationship management in this region. **Preferred qualifications**: - Experience developing and understanding business strategy. - Experience working in organizations, across boundaries, and developing organizational relationships. - Experience with problem-solving, quantitative analysis, and communicating findings to executive management. - Ability to work in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. **About the job**: As a Strategy and Operations (S&O) Manager in Google’s Marketing organization, you will provide business critical insights and analytics, ensure cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, and help teams drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. Whether you are embedded within a specific marketing team to use insights to enable better marketing decisions or the global S&O function to equip the organization to succeed at scale, you will engage with Google leadership in order to establish Marketing’s strategic direction. You will manage planning and operational processes and work cross-functionally with key partners across Marketing, Product, Finance and Engineering to solve our toughest challenges, advocate for high-priority projects, and drive greater operational excellence within Marketing. To be successful in this role, you have a hypothesis-driven approach to problem solving, effective quantitative and communication skills, and the ability to take on broad-reaching and ambiguous questions while working collaboratively and cross-functionally with Googlers of all levels. As a part of the Strategy and Operations team, you will engage regularly with leadership to establish Marketing’s strategic direction, getting exposure to Google’s business. You will become a trusted source of advice and an essential partner to executives across our products. 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**: - Partner with leadership to set strategic plans globally and articulating priorities. Develop executive-level deliverables. - Lead the business operations, resources management and updates to leadership. Work across Google’s products to develop solutions to the organization’s challenges and initiatives. - Establish Marketing’s priorities and conduct data-driven business analytics to support and make recommendations on strategy.- Evaluate Marketing performance/impact and make data-driven recommendations for how to adjust our approach to reach our ambitious goals. 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 Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.