Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience in program or project management.
- Experience in News Partnership.
- Experience in Google App Script and Google Workplace.
- Experience working with vendors.
Preferred qualifications:
- Certification in Program Management.
- 3 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience in program management within a technology company.
- Experience in stakeholder management.
- Ability to solve complex problems and scale effectively across a large and highly distributed organization, and design and build dashboards and visualize data.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex concepts concisely and clearly.
About the job
The EMEA News Partnerships team works to transform Google’s relationships with the news industry in Europe, Middle East and Africa. We build relationships that solve users needs, advance our partners goals, and further Google’s mission. Our team provides valuable solutions from helping news organizations grow and transform their business and find new audiences, to helping our long-term partners anticipate and navigate change in a way that delivers economic and reputational value. We collaborate across different product areas at Google, ensuring a coordinated approach when engaging with our strategic partners, including news associations/trade bodies, to grow our business and theirs, build trust, and deepen relationships. Our team collaborates closely with other teams at Google, to tell great stories about our engagement with the news industries and influence key opinion formers in our region.
In this role, you will support the team’s partner initiatives coming out of the Global News Programs team by helping to manage, optimize and analyse the operations of end-to-end engagements for Google’s strategic news partners across EMEA.
Responsibilities
- Drive execution of the agreed EMEA News Partnerships strategy supporting the team operationally, (e.g. ensuring projects are reported on and paid for on time).
- Understand Google products (e.g., Google Workplace, Google Cloud) and leverage those to push automation and increase work efficiency.
- Audit current processes and identify areas for improvement, such as developing automated processes using Google Workplace products (e.g., Google sheets, sending automated emails, generating automated custom reports, creating dashboards).
- Monitor and measure project progress, budget and potential risks/delays.
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