Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 2 years of experience in an advertising, consultative sales, business development, online media environment, or marketing role.
  
• Ability to communicate in English and Norwegian fluently to support clients in the Norway market.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a business related field.
  
• 2 years of experience working in a complex, matrixed organization.
  
• 1 year of experience managing digital marketing and advertising campaigns, projects, and relationships with customers or agencies.
  

About the job

Businesses that partner with Google come in all shapes, sizes and market caps, and no one Google advertising solution works for all. Your knowledge of online media combined with your communication skills and analytical abilities shapes how new and existing businesses grow. Using your relationship-building skills, you provide Google-caliber client service, research and market analysis. You anticipate how decisions are made, persistently explore and uncover the business needs of Google's key clients and understand how our range of product offerings can grow their business. Working with them, you set the vision and the strategy for how their advertising can reach thousands of users.

The Engage team is a Sales team designed to grow small-sized businesses in Norway with significant expansion potential. We specialize in delivering the most effective solutions to high potential small businesses from all verticals and business models, in each stage of their journey, in the most efficient way for the business and with a high performing Sales team at scale.

As an Account Strategist, you will establish relationships by conducting regular phone consultations and business pitches with a large portfolio of clients. You'll provide exceptional solution selling, partnership management, and analysis to deliver successful business outcomes. You will uncover the business needs of Google's key clients and achieve their marketing objectives while driving business growth through our industry leading advertising solutions.

Google Customer Solutions (GCS) sales teams are trusted advisors and competitive sellers who maintain a relentless focus on customer success by bringing the best Google has to offer to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), which are the backbone of our communities. As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work with company owners and make a real difference in their businesses by helping them grow. Together, we help shape the future of innovation for customers, partners, and sellers...and we have fun doing it.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage relationships with clients, and develop an understanding of their business challenges, marketing objectives, and success metrics.
  
• Work proactively and cooperatively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure workflows and projects are completed on time to a high standard.
  
• Plan for, and achieve, business growth goals, through the presentation of Google advertising products/solutions that will help clients to meet their marketing objectives.
  
• Develop forward thinking, data-driven analyses and consultative recommendations that align with customer goals, and quantify high-impact opportunities with clear recommendations to present to customers.
  
• Build an in-depth knowledge of how Google Advertising products work and can be used to help meet a wide range of marketing objectives.