Managing Director, Central Strategy and Planning

**Minimum qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 15 years of experience working in a management consulting firm or a commercial leadership role

**Preferred qualifications**:

- MBA or equivalent practical experience
- Experience leading regional or global teams, and experience influencing executives
- Knowledge of Google’s Ads products, sales teams, and/or service operations and the customer and competitive contexts in which they operate
- Ability to effectively operate with flexibility in a fast-paced, high energy, constantly evolving, team environment
- An analytical thinker that possesses strong business acumen and ability to operate with integrity, and success in mentoring and developing cross-functional collaborative teams

**About the job**:
The Go-to-Market Operations (GTM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

As Director, APAC Central Strategy and Planning, you will lead a team and be responsible for defining the strategy for cross-Large Customer Sales (LCS) initiatives that accelerate ads business growth in the region. You will manage complex processes and develop solutions to complex, ambiguous, and high visibility business challenges. Additionally, you will interact with key stakeholders, executives, and cross-functional leaders as you drive alignment, strategic change management, and overall communications.

The Go-to-Market Operations (GtM) team ensures Google's complex and ever-evolving Ads business runs smoothly. We are instrumental in setting go-to-market strategy, and ensuring flawless execution and operations against the strategy. We have teams embedded in each of the major Ads business areas as well as global teams that work across the business areas. Team members are analytical and strategic, with a pragmatic sense of how to get things done.

**Responsibilities**:
- Lead the business planning for APAC Large Customer Sales (LCS) business, while managing strategic planning for growth. Work with regional and global leadership to identify growth opportunities, and create and implement plans.- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and partners to drive alignment, change management, and communications while leading region-specific initiatives to accelerate sales growth, organizational effectiveness, product adoption, etc.
- Possess deep seller empathy to understand needs/challenges. Unlock growth by providing strategic support.
- Serve as liaison to Global LCS and GCS Revenue teams, GTM, and Marketing teams to drive regional alignment and run quarterly launch processes
- staffing, goal setting, training, portfolio management, and escalations, including annual channel and resource management.
- Lead all quarterly regional strategic and operational priorities and deliver executive communications (i.e., narratives with cross-functional teams on content, manage the messaging across APAC LCS leadership).

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