Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience managing extended workforce strategies and initiatives across functions.
- 8 years of experience in vendor management and with business impact.
- 8 years of experience working with and managing partners in programs.
- Master's degree or other advanced degree.
- Experience working autonomously in a dynamic, ever-changing, and collaborative environment.
- Ability to identify potential business opportunities, assess financial/business benefit, structure agreements, and discuss terms with strategic partners.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.
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About the job
gTech's Extended Workforce Solutions (xWS) team empowers Product Areas (PAs) to optimize outsourced operations while reducing risks and driving efficiency through the enforcement of Google best practices and policies. We advocate for informed decision-making, ensuring our partners find the right talent in the right locations. Our collaboration across Google leads to streamlined processes, minimizing administrative burdens and optimizing the extended workforce (xW) experience. We ensure Google's policies and guidelines are consistently adhered to.
In this role, you will help directly shape Product Areas (PA), Bets, and Functions development and the formation of future-proof strategic solutions. As a Strategic Partner Development Lead, you will deeply understand PA's and Bet's business goals and regularly engage with senior stakeholders across a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team to ensure adherence to Google best practices.
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
- Build trusted relationships with senior PA decision-makers and collaborate with PE team members on Director-level engagement, gaining a deep understanding of their strategic priorities within Product Areas and Bets.
- Be knowledgeable in the extended workforce menu of services, support PAs extended workforce solutions (xWS) strategy by enabling cost effective recommendations and compliance to xWS policies.
- Develop a deep understanding of the PA's business objectives, operating model, structure, business demand vs. staffing capacity needs and be capable of educating the xWS team with ongoing strategic insight to unlock additional opportunities for economies of scale.
- Navigate internally across xWS specialist teams and other organizations to align on how best to service Google PAs extended workforce needs.
- Orchestrate change management within PAs to support multiple, large-scale xWS deployments. Consult VPs on xWS policies and impact analysis.