Strategy and Operations Lead, Apac Customer Engineering

Google will be prioritizing applicants who have a current right to work in Singapore, and do not require Google's sponsorship of a visa.

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in management consulting, sales operations, business strategy, investment banking, venture capital, private equity, or corporate advisory, or 6 years of experience with an advanced degree
- Experience working with executives in an advisor role, and building and managing teams.

**Preferred qualifications**:

- Experience in Cloud or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) businesses.
- Experience supporting customer engineering, solution engineering, or pre-sales technical teams for strategy and planning activities.
- Ability to translate data into business insights along with excellent problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fluid environment along with time-management and prioritization skills.
- Ability to grow and navigate ambiguity, learn and collaborate within a team of professionals.
- Excellent story telling and communication skills and the ability to craft an engaging narrative which includes presentation, structure, and design.

**About the job**:
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 Go-To-Market Strategy and Operations Lead, you will be a part of the APAC Strategy and Operations team. In this role, you will support the Head of Strategy and Operations Lead for Customer Engineering (CE) in driving the priorities of the CE organization, partnering directly with the Vice President (VP) and Directors of the CE organization, and guiding the organization with planning and execution. You will also help drive initiatives for the APAC VP of the CE organization.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

**Responsibilities**:

- Partner with the Customer Engineering leadership team in APAC to develop the organization’s strategy, becoming an integral part and a trusted advisor to the leadership team.
- Drive the business forward by developing and executing initiatives to accelerate growth, and grow the business to implement initiatives in an organization.
- Establish and structure the way we work, through operational flow of business, metrics, insights, and reporting.
- Help run the business for the Customer Engineering organization, own key processes like business reviews and planning, and foster collaboration and standard procedures sharing within the region.
- Identify opportunities to improve existing processes, and help drive up the productivity of the Customer Engineering team.

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