Central Strategy and Operations Lead| gCare

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Gurgaon, Haryana, India; Hyderabad, Telangana, India.Minimum qualifications:
• 8 years of experience analyzing and translating data into insights, and presenting results of analysis across multiple levels of the organization.
• Experience in project or program management, process improvements, and business analysis.
• Experience in stakeholder management, initiatives, and operations.

Preferred qualifications:
• MBA or Master's degree in a management, technical, or engineering field.
• Experience growing in ambiguity and drive strategy in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, with excellent executive presence.
• Ability to synthesize data into useful formats and bring actionable insights.
• Ability to straddle between details and higher level implications of critical business issues.
• Excellent leadership in crisis and change management situations with demonstrated business judgment which can be used to effectively prioritize and action requests.
• Excellent project management, problem solving and analysis skills, combined with business judgment and communication skills.

About The Job

The Business Strategy and 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.

gTech provides technical expertise across all Google products to support our global Sales and Partnerships teams. Within gTech, gCare takes a customer-centric, creative, and collaborative approach to provide optimization, implementation, and troubleshooting support services to all types of advertisers and publishers and Sales teams. gCare experts help customers attain their business goals while providing the best troubleshooting support through different channels.

The gCare gSO team focuses on the most critical gTech gCare strategic priorities, facilitates cross-functional alignment of goals and execution, provides business critical insights using analytics, and helps teams across gCare drive strategic partnerships and new initiatives forward. Within the gSO team, the central strategy team provides the cohesive strategic direction and execution to ensure each vertical team is driving toward the broader direction set out by executive leadership. This role requires redefining processes and managing execution of large-scale initiatives in partnership with business, S&O/Go-to-Market teams, Finance, and Staffing.

Responsibilities
• Work with executive leadership to define, launch, and drive strategic and operational initiatives. Enable critical business decision making by working with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Work closely with vertical gCare gSO and gTech Central gSO teams on organization level initiatives/projects.
• Partner with team members to gather data, jointly conduct business analysis, and identify solutions through effective communication and project management.
• Structure and implement operational and strategic initiatives by developing work plans.
• Partner on business planning and work closely with planning team on approach, timelines etc. with gTech S&O, finance and business.

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