Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor\'s degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 15 years of experience in vendor management, supplier management, or service delivery management.
  
• Experience working with executives and cross-functionally across all levels of management.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master\'s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Accreditation in Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), Institute of Supply Management, Customer Operations Performance Centre (COPC).
  
• Experience working with and managing partners in programs.

About the job

Google\'s line of products and services to our clients never stops growing. The Partnerships Development team is responsible for seeking and exploring new opportunities with Google\'s partners. Equipped with your business acumen and extensive product knowledge, you are right on the front line of interacting with our partners, and helping them find ways to grow using Google\'s newest product offerings. Your knowledge of relevant verticals and relationships with key industry players will help shape our great applications and content for products such as YouTube, Google TV and Commerce. Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech\xe2\x80\x99s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers\xe2\x80\x99 complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

To learn more about gTech, check out our video.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with decision-makers, and gain an understanding of their priorities within Product Areas and Bets.
  
• Provide strategic insight and support to the team.
  
• Leverage knowledge of the extended workforce space, key metrics, industry trends (e.g., AI), and challenges to articulate the value of the extended workforce solutions.
  
• Guide stakeholders toward extended workforce solutions that drive business outcomes and align with strategic goals.
  
• Drive strategic direction for the extended workforce program, build vendor partnerships, and advocate for performance to ensure improvement.
  

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.