Strategy and Business Development Manager, Sustainability, gTech (On-site)

About the job

gTech’s Professional Services team takes a creative, collaborative, and customer-centric approach to provide foundational services and forward-looking business solutions to top advertiser and publisher customers. Through technical implementation, optimization, and key solutions, gTech Professional Services helps customers attain their business goals while building long-term capabilities.

gTech Sustainability is a team within gTech focused on the application of Google’s data, technology, and programs to develop a circular and sustainable world without plastic waste. As a Strategy and Business Development Manager, you will have a passion for sustainability, an entrepreneurial mindset, comfort with ambiguity, and enjoy working in many different areas.

In this role, you will drive strategy, develop insights, and build partnerships with a diverse ecosystem of customers focused on the plastic pollution problem. You will have a mix of both strategy and business development experience.

Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s 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’ 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.

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Responsibilities

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• Work with executive leadership to define, launch, and drive strategic sustainability initiatives spanning the organization. Enable critical decision making by aligning and working with cross-functional stakeholders.
  
• Lead strategic analysis including gathering data, identifying and supporting solution development, and conducting business analyses with effective project management.
  
• Develop external partnerships (e.g., startups, non-profits, non-governmental-organizations, etc.) to support the development and scaling of technical solutions.
  
• Structure and implement strategic initiatives by developing work plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses, developing recommendations, and analyzing results.
  
• Support the annual planning process for the sustainability team (i.e. preparing strategic updates for executives).
  

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  
• 5 years of experience in management consulting or strategy/project management at a technology firm
  
• Experience developing and landing initiatives
  
• Experience with business planning or scoping initiatives and programs
  

Preferred qualifications:

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• MBA or graduate degree in a management, technical, or engineering field
  
• Experience in the sustainability industry
  
• Experience working with external partners in business development
  
• Experience working with analytical tools and techniques (i.e. SQL)
  
• Interest in the problem space (i.e. plastic pollution)
  

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